ICT Instructor, Undergraduate Writing Programme, Ashoka University
Pranavesh Subramanian is a writer, researcher and filmmaker based in Delhi. He is an instructor on the Undergraduate Writing Program at Ashoka University. He holds an MA in Cultural Studies and a BA (Hons.) in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Creative Writing), both from Goldsmiths, University of London. Pranavesh’s research interests include Tamil Cinema, Urban Space, Comedy, Youth Masculinity and the Internet. He is also interested in fiction that mediates reality through the internet and autofiction. Using his training in Cultural Studies, Pranavesh aims to draw on the methodology of conjunctural analysis in his teaching to centre students’ own experiences as a starting point to critically examine its intersection in socio-political, economic and historical contexts.
Pranavesh’s research has been published in Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The social life of selfies in India (2024, Routledge), and his moving image work has been screened at the Mosaic Rooms (2022, London) and the German International Ethnographic Film Festival (2022, Göttingen).