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Dr K.P. Jayasankar
M.A. (Mumbai), Ph.D. (IIT, Mumbai)
Professor and Chairperson, CMCS
e-mail:kpj[AT]tiss.edu |
Dr. K.P. Jayasankar is Professor and Chair, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has an M.A. in German language and a Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences, from IIT Mumbai and is involved in media production, teaching and research. A presiding thematic of much of his work has been a problematising of notions of self and the other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global, through the exploration of diverse narratives and rituals. His films, jointly directed with Dr. Anjali Monteiro, have won sixteen national and international awards. These include the Prix Futura Berlin 1995 Asia Prize for Identity- The Construction of Selfhood, the Certificate of Merit at MIFF `98 and Best Innovation, Astra Film Festival 1998, Sibiu, Romania for YCP 1997 and the Best documentary award at the IV Three Continents International Festival of Documentaries 2005, Venezuela, for SheWrite. Their most recent awards are the Special Jury Award at the Signs 2007 Festival, held in Thiruvananthapuram, and a Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival 2008, for the film, Our Family and a Special Mention of the Jury for the film Breasts at the Sadho Poetry Fest 2007, New Delhi. Dr. Jayasankar is an award winning cameraperson and editor and enjoys web and graphic design. Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala organised a retrospective of his work in 2006.
Dr. Jayasankar was a Howard Thomas Memorial Fellow in Media Studies, attached to Goldsmith’s College, London and a DAAD visiting scholar at the University of Heidelberg. He conducts workshops in critical media education with groups ranging from school children to activist groups and also serves as visiting faculty to several media and design institutions in India and abroad. He has also served as jury to film festivals. He is actively involved in ‘Vikalp' and 'Films for Freedom', which are collectives of documentary filmmakers campaigning for freedom of expression.
Dr. Jayasankar also has several papers in the area of media and cultural studies and has contributed to journals such as Cultural Studies. His publications include:
(With Anjali Monteiro) India: The News of the State and the State of the News in Jensen, K.B. (ed.) The News of the World, Routledge, 1998.
(With Anjali Monteiro) Between the Normal and the Imaginary - The Spectator-self, the Other and Satellite Television in India, in Hagen, I and Wasko, (ed.,) Consuming Audiences: Production and Reception in Media Research Hampton Press, 2000.
(With Anjali Monteiro) Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier, 2001.
Warlis: Myth and Reality, International Gallerie, Vol.I, 2001
(With Anjali Monteiro) The Plot Thickens – A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India, in Tony Lavender, Birgitte Tufte and Dafna Lemish (eds.) Global Trends in Media Education, Hampton Press, 2003.
The Speaking Subject: A Preamble to Jivatman, MICA Communications Review, Vol. I No. 2, 15- 33, 2003.
(With Anjali Monteiro) Censorship ke Peeche Kya Hai, in Nalini Rajan (ed) Practising Journalism, Sage, 2005.
Dr. Jayasankar has been involved with the following organisations:
Member, Managing Committee, AVEHI, Audio-Visual Resource
Centre, Mumbai
Member, Managing Committee, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai
Trustee, Navnirmiti, Mumbai
Consultant, IFAD, NDDB and PSI