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B.A. (English Literature) Sophia College Mumbai;

M.A (English Literature) Delhi University;

MPhil (English Literature) Jawaharlal Nehru University;

PhD (Literary and Cultural Studies) University of Western Australia.

Dr. Rukmini Pande

Associate Professor

Email rpande@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Fandom Studies, Postcolonial Cybercultural Studies, Critical Race Studies, Digital Humanities, Popular Cultural Studies

B.A. (English Literature) Sophia College Mumbai;

M.A (English Literature) Delhi University;

MPhil (English Literature) Jawaharlal Nehru University;

PhD (Literary and Cultural Studies) University of Western Australia.

Biography

Dr. Rukmini Pande is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at O.P Jindal Global University, India. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Fandom Studies and Mallorn: The Journal of Tolkien Studies.

She has been published in edited collections (Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies and The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture Tourism) and peer reviewed journals (Transformative Works and Cultures, The Journal for Feminist Studies).

She has also published a monograph, Squee From The Margins: Race in Fandom (2018) and an edited collection, Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices (2020).

  • Introduction to Literary Studies
  • Introduction to Transnational Cybercultures
  • Introduction to Fandom Studies
  • Adaptation Studies

 

Pande, Rukmini. 2024. “‘Get out of Here You Anti’: Historizing the Operation of Structural Racism in Media Fandom.” Feminist Media Histories 10 (1): 107–30. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.1.107.

Pande, Rukmini. 2024. “Popular Culture.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, July, mbae007. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbae007.

Pande, Rukmini. 2024. “Do Not Fight Back, Fight Forward: An Analysis of Ted Lasso’s Approach to Systemic Race/Ism in the English Premier League.” The Journal of Popular Television 12 (Ted Lasso): 149–64. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv_00121_1.

Pande, Rukmini. 2021. “Naming Whiteness: Interrogating Fan Studies Methodologies.” In A Fan Studies Primer, edited by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Pande, Rukmini. 2021. “Global Fandom: Rukmini Pande (India) — Pop Junctions.” Pop Junctions: Henry Jenkins. October 12, 2021. http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2021/9/12/global-fandom-rukmini-pande-india.

Pande, Rukmini. 2021. “Framing Fandom History: The Effects of Whiteness on Memorialization Rukmini Pande / O.P. Jindal Global University – Flow.” Flow: A Critical Forum and Media and Culture. October 16, 2021. https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/11/framing-fandom-history/.

Pande, Rukmini (Under Contract). An Introduction to Media Fandom, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury.

Pande, Rukmini, ed. 2020. Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices. Fandom and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Pande, Rukmini. 2020. “A Roundtable Discussion about the Cultures of Fandom on Tumblr with Flourish Klink, Rukmini Pande, Zina Hutton, and Lori Morimoto.” In A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, edited by Allison McCracken, Indira Neil Hoch, and Louisa Ellen Stein. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Pande, Rukmini. 2020. “How (Not) to Talk about Race: A Critique of Methodological Practices in Fan Studies.” Transformative Works and Cultures 33 (June). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1737.

Pande, Rukmini, and Samira Nadkarni. 2019. “Hannibal And The Cannibal: Tracking Colonial Imaginaries.” In Becoming: Essays on NBC’s Hannibal, edited by EJ Nielsen and Kavita Mundan Finn. Syracuse University Press.

Pande, Rukmini. 2019a. “I Protest! A Postcolonial Critique of Media Fan Activism in A Globalized World.” In Consumer Identities: Agency, Media and Digital Culture, 159–72. Bristol, UK: Intellect.

Pande, Rukmini. 2019b. “It’s Just a Joke! The Payoffs and Perils of Micro-Celebrity in India.” In Microcelebrity Around the Globe, edited by Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

Wanzo, Rebecca, and Rukmini Pande. 2018. “The State of Fandom Studies 2018: Rukmini Pande and Rebecca Wanzo.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan (blog). March 6, 2018. http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2018/3/1/the-state-of-fandom-studies-2018-rukmini-pande-and-rebecca-wanzo-part-1.

Pande, Rukmini. 2018. Squee From The Margins: Fandom and Race. Fandom and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Pande, Rukmini. 2018a. “‘I Went to India to Find Myself:’ Tracing World Cinema’s Neoliberal Orientalisms.” In The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism, edited by Christine Lundberg and Vassilios Ziakas. Oxford: Routledge.

Pande, Rukmini. 2018b. “‘Who Do You Mean by “Fan”?’ Decolonizing Media Fandom Identity.” In A Companion To Fandom and Fan Studies, edited by Paul Booth, 417–34. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Pande, Rukmini. 2018c. “You Do Realize The Lion King Is Set in Africa Right?’ Utilizing Fan Studies to Teach Race/Racism in the University Classroom.” In Fandom as Classroom Practice, edited by Katherine Anderson Howell. Fandom and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Pande, Rukmini, and Cait Coker. 2018. “Not So Star-Spangled: Examining Race, Privilege, and Problems in MCU’s Captain America Fandom.” In The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction: Essays on Power, Consent and the Body, edited by Ashton Spacey, 97–115. North Carolina: McFarland.

Pande, Rukmini, and Samira Nadkarni. 2016. “I Will Tell Your Story: New Media Activism and the Indian Rape Crisis.” Journal of Feminist Scholarship 11.

Pande, Rukmini. 2015. “Race and the Classroom: Resistant Fan Practices.” Media Commons: A Digital Scholarly Network (blog). April 9, 2015.

Pande, Rukmini, and Samira Nadkarni. 2013. “A Land Where Other People Live.” In Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, edited by Anne Jamison, 342–52. Dallas, Texas: BenBella Books, Inc.
Email rpande@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Fandom Studies, Postcolonial Cybercultural Studies, Critical Race Studies, Digital Humanities, Popular Cultural Studies
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