Meenakshi Gigi Durham's work centers on media and the politics of the body, with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, race, and youth cultures. She has a particular interest in Asian American Studies. She teaches courses in gender and the media, media and identity, critical theories of the media, and magazine writing. Her professional journalism experience includes reporting, editing, and design for various newspapers and magazines including The Pensacola News-Journal, The Times of India, and Science Today. She coordinated a statewide public information campaign on family involvement in education for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. She served as publications editor for the University of Wisconsin System from 1992-94. She has published widely on representations of women in fashion and beauty magazines and on adolescents' negotiations of mediated discourses of gender.