Prerna, an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School, is a media scholar and content creator with a PhD specializing in Indian pop cultures, transgender justice, and urban middle class spatial imaginaries. Her research focuses on the intersection of pop cultures, time and mobilities particularly in contemporary India. She is currently transitioning her PhD thesis on Indian middle-class spatial imaginaries and digital pop-culture mediated urban transgender mobility into a book, as a Center for Black Brown and Queer Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. Prerna is also a BTS aca fan.
Current Research:
Currently, Prerna is turning her PhD dissertation into a book. In her work, Prerna Subramanian examines how the Hindu upper-caste, middle-class family’s control over both narrative and physical spaces produces an anti-trans spatial order in contemporary, digitally mediated pop cultural products like streaming tv series and films that mirrors the anti-trans spatial realities of everyday life. By focusing on the concept of “safety,” she uncovers how middle-class security is maintained through the moral, spatial, and visual dispossession of trans people in India.
Areas of Study:
Gender studies, Media Studies, Mobility Humanities, India, Sexuality and Trans Studies