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.
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, R.. Cyber selves: Feminist ethnographies of South Asian women. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press. .
Gajjala, R., & Gajjala, V... South-Asian technospaces. New York: Peter Lang, Digital Formation Series.
Blair, K., Gajjala, R., & Tulley, C... Webbing cyberfeminist practice: Communities, pedagogies, and social action. New Jersey: Hampton Press.
Chopra R. & Gajjala R.,. Global media cultures, and identities. Routledge.
Gajjala R. & Yeon Ju Oh. Cyberfeminism 2.0. Peter Lang, Digital Formation Series edited by Steve Jones.
Gajjala, R.. Cyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real. Lexington Press.
Journal articles
Gajjala, R When Your Seams Get Undone, Do You Learn to Sew or to Kill Monsters? The Communication Review.
Zhang, Y., Gajjala, R., and Watkins, S.. Home of Hope: Voicings, whiteness, and technological gaze. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 36, 202-221.
Gajjala R and Birzescu A. Digital Imperialism through Online social/financial networks – for Special issue of Economic and Political Weekly
Gajjala, R.. Snapshots from sari Trails: Cyborgs Old and New, Social Identities, 17, 393-408.
Gajjala, V., Gajjala, R., Birzescu, A., and Anarbaeva, S.. Microfinance in Online Space: A Visual Analysis of Kiva.org. Development in Practice, 21, 880893.
Gajjala, R., Zhang, Y., and Dako-Gyeke, P.. Lexicons of Women’s Empowerment Online. Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 10: 69 -86.
Gajjala, R. and Rybas, N.. Racing and Queering the Interface: Producing global/local cyberselves. Qualitative Inquiry, Special Issue on Technology, 14, 1110-1133.
Rybas, N., & Gajjala, R.. Developing cyberethnographic research methods for understanding digitally mediated identities. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8.
Gajjala, R.. South Asian digital diasporas and cyberfeminist webs: negotiating globalization, nation, gender and information technology design. Contemporary South Asia, 12, 41-56
Gajjala, R., & Mamidipudi, A.. Gendering processes within technological environments: A cyberfeminist issue. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 4. http://www.rhizomes.net
Gajjala, R.. Internet constructs of identity and ignorance: “Third-world” contexts and cyberfeminism. In G. Pagnucci & N. Mauriello,. The future of narrative discourse: Internet constructs of literacy and identity: Vol. 17/18. Works and Days.
Gajjala, R., & Mamidipudi, A.. Cyberfeminism, technology and international “development.” Gender and Development, l7, 8-16.
Awards and honors
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.
