Pragya Paramita Ghosh

Experienced with curriculum design, student mentorship, and academic research. Utilizes advanced pedagogical techniques and effective communication to enhance student learning experiences. Knowledge of current educational trends and track record of contributing to academic excellence.

• Pragya Ghosh, Radhika Parameswaran & Pallavi Rao: Shit talk in shitty terrain: Flushing Indian feminism through YouTube’s comedic conduits. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 1/20/2021. DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2020.1865550
• Pragya Ghosh and Apala Kundu: Through the Looking Glass. Situating Social Media: Gender, Caste, Solidarity. Protest, Women Unlimited; (2020) pg.44-62
• The crisis with Indian masculinity: Ayushmann Khurrana and the emergence of soft Indian masculinity. Paper presented at SCMS 2023 conference
• Animating Desire: Apocryphal Myth and Desire under India’s New Censorship. Paper accepted for presentation at SCMS 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid). Presented at SCMS 2021 (Virtual Conference)
• Animating Desire: Apocryphal Myth and Desire under India’s New Censorship. Paper presented at the Annual South Asian Conference, Wisconsin Madison; Oct 17-20, 2019
• Viral Toilets, Virtual Humor: Reading Gendered and Transgressive Bodies in Urban India. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Washington D.C; May 24-28, 2019
• From Pornography to Paranoia: Re-Reading Emmanuelle as a Body Horror Text. Paper presented at Mini Big 10 Conference, Urbana; April 12, 2019
• Fantasy in a time of banned desire: Savita Bhabhi and animated porn in India. Paper presented at Common Grounds Conference, The Media School; March 29, 2019
• From Pornography to Paranoia: Re-Reading Emmanuelle as a Body Horror Text. French and Italian, 2019, GSO Conference, Indiana University; March 1, 2019
• How the Fearless Girl Challenged a Bull and Got Away with It. Paper presented at 12th Annual Indiana University Conference on Landscape, Space, and Place, Indiana University; March 2-3, 2018
• Havelis in Bombay Cinema. Paper presented at Common Grounds Conference, The Media School; February,2018
• Havelis in Bombay Cinema: Re-selling the Past and its Desires. Paper presented at the sixth Biennial Conference of the Media Fields Editorial Collective, University of California, Santa Barbara; April 6-7, 2017
• Havelis in Bombay Cinema: A brief overview from the 1960s till the present. Paper presented at Haveli: The Way Forward organized by Archade Foundation (Architecture Research, Conservation, Habitat and Design Foundation); New Delhi, October 10-11, 2015
• Through the looking glass. Paper presented at the Humanitarian Disasters, Human Rights Violations and Social Media Journalism, organized by CRG and British Deputy High Commission; Kolkata, Dec 11-14, 2013

• Race in American Art (Associate Instructor)- Spring 2025
• Reading Race in Popular Culture (IOR)- Fall 2024
• Peopling in Contemporary America (Associate Instructor) � Spring 2024
• Screening Race and Ethnicity (Adjunct Position) – Fall 2023
• Media in Globalized World (Adjunct Position) – Fall 2023
• Media C101 (Associate Instructor)- Fall 2022, Spring 2023
• Screening Gender and Sexuality (Instructor-of-Record) – Spring 2022
• Screening Gender and Sexuality (Instructor-of-Record) – Fall 2021
• MSCH C160 The Media Village (Instructor-of Record)-Fall 2020
• Screening Race and Ethnicity (Associate Instructor)- Spring 2020
• Media Conspiracy (Associate Instructor)- Fall 2019
• Media C 101 (Associate Instructor)- Fall 2018, Spring 2019
• Writing Media Criticism (Associate Instructor)- Spring 2018
• Communications Law (Associate Instructor)- Fall 2017
• Guest Lecturer: How India/ Indians are stereotyped by American Media for MSCH-C214, Race, Prejudice, and the Media. 3/28/2019

• Media LLC Media Director (Fall 2020- Spring 2021)
• Professional Development Chair (2019-2020) at Media School Graduate Association
• Social Chair (2018-2019) at Media School Graduate Association