B.A. (MCRPV, Bhopal)
M.A. (Jamia Millia Islamia)
M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Associate Professor
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B.A. (MCRPV, Bhopal)
M.A. (Jamia Millia Islamia)
M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Dr. Ritika Pant is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University. She has a doctoral degree in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral thesis explored the transnational linkages of contemporary Indian television. Her work has been published in the Economic & Political Weekly, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, South Asian Popular Culture etc.
A gold medalist from the AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Pant started her career as a Television Producer with Star Plus where she worked on non-fiction projects like Masterchef India, Aap ki Kachehri, Sach ka Saamna etc. Prior to joining JGU, she taught Journalism to undergraduate students at the University of Delhi for almost a decade.
She has received research and travel grants from the UGC (JRF), ICSSR, Charles Wallace India Trust and Sarai-CSDS for various projects. Her research interests include transnational television cultures, media and gender, digital cultures, small-screen stardom and fandom.
Multimedia Storytelling
Mass Media and Communication
Tools of the New Age Journalist
Television & Popular Culture
Charles Wallace India Trust - 2016
Junior Research Fellowship - UGC - 2012
Sarai Social Media Fellowship - 2016
Gold Medalist - Jamia Millia Islamia - 2009
Visiting Fellow - University of Westminster - 2016
Pant, Ritika. “From Global to Neo-global: Mapping the ‘Tele’-visual Geography of South Asia Through a Transnational Lens”, South Asian Popular Culture, Vol. 20 Issue 2, July 2022. Pg. 165-179. ISSN : 1474-6689 (Print), 1474-6697 (Online)
Contributed a Chapter on Art of Direction for IGNOU, Post-graduate Diploma programme in Mass Communication and New Media, March, 2022.
Pant, Ritika. “Television’s New Lease of Life Amidst Covid-19”, Economic & Political Weekly. ISSN – 2349-8846, March 31, 2020. https://www.epw.in/engage/article/televisions-new-lease-life-amidst-covid-19
Contributed a Chapter on Production Design for IGNOU, Post-graduate programme in Mass Communication and New Media, March 2020.
Pant, Ritika. “Soap Opera Stars as Corporate Commodities: The Political Economy of Television Stardom” in Hero and Hero-Worship: Fandom in Modern India, edited by Rahul Chaturvedi, Hariom Singh & Anita Singh. Series in Critical Media Studies. Vernon Press. 2020. Pg. 67-86. ISBN – 1-62273-859-4.
A dossier on the Indian OTT platform Hotstar prepared for the Global Internet Television Consortium, March 2018. https://global-internet-tv.com/india-hotstar/
Contributed a Chapter on Television Production Management for IGNOU, Post-graduate programme in Mass Communication and New Media, October 2018.
Pant, Ritika. “I’m a Drama Queen…But I’m the Star you love to see! Soap Operas, Melodrama and the Televisual Construction of Female Stardom”, SubVersions: A Journal of Emerging Research in Media and Cultural Studies (Tata Institute of Social Sciences), Vol. 3 Issue.1, 2015. ISSN – 2347-9426 http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/ritika/
“Rang De Basanti - The Shooting Script” by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra published in The Book Review Journal, Vol. XXXIX No. 2, February 2015
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| Key Expertise | media, transnationalism, gender, fandom, stardom, television |