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M.A. in Society and Culture, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
B.A. (Hons.) English Literature, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
Assistant Professor & Fellow, Centre for Women’s Rights
| prerna.subramanian@jgu.edu.in | |
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| ORCID ID | 0000-0003-4922-9159 |
| Key Expertise | Cultural studies of mobility; mediated everyday life; media and institutional mediation; gender and caste; sexuality and trans studies; South Asian cinema and streaming cultures; digital publics and platform politics; urban space and campus life; mental-health. |
M.A. in Society and Culture, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
B.A. (Hons.) English Literature, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
Dr Prerna Subramanian is a cultural studies scholar whose work studies mobility in mediated everyday life in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas. By mediated everyday life, she means the ways daily life is shaped through screens and institutions. Her research examines how mobility is organised through media and campus spaces, with a focus on visual culture and university life. She studies how caste and gender shape movement and belonging, as well as access to space and care. Her work uses critical discourse analysis and qualitative methods with visual and institutional materials. Her scholarship appears in Sociology Compass, Media Asia, Feminist Media Histories, Society and Culture in South Asia, Agenda, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, and the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Her current projects examine trans mobility in Indian cinema and caste mobility in streaming cultures, alongside student mobility and mental-health access in higher education. She is Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Rights. She is also 2026 India Institute Women in Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and a Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee at the Center for Black, Brown and Queer Studies. At JGLS, she teaches courses on gender and caste, mobility and urban space, and academic writing.
Gender, Caste and Society
Mobility Justice and Urban Space (Elective)
Academic Writing
English
Previously taught at Queen’s University, Canada:
FILM 345: Television Structure and Function
FILM 510: Directed Reading — Screenplay and Politics
Teaching assistance and tutorial instruction in film, digital media, popular culture, music video, horror cinema, women in comedy, cinema and the city, gender studies, and media theory.
Presidential, Institutional and Director's Gold Medalist, M.A. Society and Culture, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 2018
Graduated with Highest Distinction, B.A. (Hons.) English Literature, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
Asha Chatterjee Award, St. Stephen’s College, 2016
Muriel Wasi Award, St. Stephen’s College, 2016
Pandit Hazarilal Award, St. Stephen’s College, 2016
Special Dean’s Award, Queen’s University, 2022
OCUFA Henry Mandelbaum Graduate Fellowship Award, Ontario, Canada, 2019
India Institute Women in Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, 2026
Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee, Center for Black, Brown and Queer Studies, 2024
Consultant, Breakthrough Trust / Breakthrough Media, 2026. Conducted a full-day consultation on masculinity, manosphere cultures, gendered digital harm, counter-messaging, public communication, and feminist media strategy.
Academic mentoring, developmental editing, and research-writing consultation for early-career researchers, postgraduate students, and independent scholars working across gender, caste, media, cultural studies, law and society, and public-facing scholarship.
| prerna.subramanian@jgu.edu.in | |
| ORCID ID | 0000-0003-4922-9159 |
| Key Expertise | Cultural studies of mobility; mediated everyday life; media and institutional mediation; gender and caste; sexuality and trans studies; South Asian cinema and streaming cultures; digital publics and platform politics; urban space and campus life; mental-health. |