Radhika Gajjala

Director American Culture Studies Program Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 233 Shatzel Hall 419- 372-7133 radhik@bgnet.bgsu.edu http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik/

Research/Teaching Interests: 
Digital Media (ICTs) and Globalization, Gender, Race and Technology, South Asian Diasporas, Critical Development Studies, Affect and Placement in Digital Space, Transnational Labor, Women and NGOs.

Recent Publications:
Chopra R. & Gajjala R., (Eds) (In-progress) Global media, cultures, and identities – Under contract with Routledge.

Gajjala R, Zhang, Y and Dako-Gyeke, P. (forthcoming 2010) “Lexicons of Women’s Empowerment Online” Feminist Media Studies.

Blair, K., Gajjala, R., & Tulley, C. (Eds.). (2009). Webbing cyberfeminist practice: Communities, pedagogies, and social action. New Jersey: Hampton Press.

Gajjala, R., & Gajjala, V. (Eds.). (2008). South-Asian technospaces. New York: Peter Lang, Digital Formation Series.

Gajjala, R. (2004). Cyber Selves: Feminist ethnographies of South Asian Women. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.

Recent Presentations:
Gajjala, R. (2009, November). NGO Space and Digital Place: Transitioning Labor in Emerging Digital Economies. Paper presented at National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Rybas, N and Gajjala, R. (2009, November). Producing the Network Self: The Intricacies of Performing Digital Identities. Paper presented at National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Gajjala, R. (2009, November). Walking with Gandhi: Non-violence and Virtuality. Paper presented at National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.