This book covers the various models of cultural studies and serves as a guide for its theory and practice. It discusses its trajectory and growth as a discipline since the 1960s and analyses various core concepts like popular culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, race, and hegemony.

K Sripad Bhat is Professor of English and Dean of Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature at Goa University, India. His areas of specialization are literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and Indian modernity. He was Visiting Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 2012 and was also invited by New York University under the Visiting Faculty Programme (2012) to deliver a talk on Gandhi's Hind Swaraj.