Radhika Gajjala


Radhika Gajjala is a communications and a cultural studies professor, who has been named a Fulbright scholar twice.

Early life

Radhika Gajjala was born December 22, 1960, in Bombay, India. She then moved around with her family before attending college in Hyderabad, India, eventually settling down in Bowling Green, Ohio in 1997.

Career

Gajjala is a well known communications scholar, co-editor of Ada a journal focusing on gender, new media, and technology, and professor of both media and communication, and culture studies at Bowling Green State University. She has authored and co-authored several scholarly articles and books, with her most recent book being Cyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real.

Education

In 1982, she attended Nizam’s College, Osmania in Hyderabad, India, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Political Science and Economics. She then received her Masters in Corporate Communication from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. After that she studied at the University of Pittsburgh and received her Ph.D. in Media studies. Finally, she moved to Bowling Green, Ohio where she started her career as a professor.

Scholarly works

Gajjala’s main interests are digital media and how it affects globalization, gender, and race and technology. Gajjala also focuses on how these topics are affected and influenced by the digital world.

Books

Gajjala is a two time Fulbright Scholar. She was first awarded the scholarship in 2011 as a part of the general U.S. Scholars program at Soegijapranata Catholic University in Semarang, Indonesia. While there she taught classes, conducted workshops on gender, globalization and digital media, and did field research with gamers and youth cultures. She was then awarded the scholarship again in 2015 as part of the Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program specializing in Communication at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway. Her project in Norway was titled Rupturing Digital Fabrics, Unpacking Global and Local Hierarchies: Developing Method for Postcolonial Digital Humanities.