DR. K.P. JAYASANKAR
Professor & Chairperson

CENTRE FOR MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

E-mail: kpj @ tiss.edu

Qualifications

• M.A. (German), University of Mumbai
• Ph.D. (Humanities and Social Sciences), Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Areas of Interest

• Media and Cultural Studies
• Documentary Film
• Semiology
• Critical Theory
• Hermeneutics
• Post-structuralism
• Advaita Vedanta

Teaching

Involved in teaching courses in Communications in TISS and also visiting faculty at:

• National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad,
• University of Hyderabad ,
• Divyadaan Institute of Philosophy, Nasik,
• Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, and
• Industrial Design Centre, IIT Mumbai.

Research

• Areas of work include analysis of media texts and audience reception, documentary film and development communication.

Training

• Workshops in critical media education, documentary film production and media and cultural studies.

Publications

• Censorship ke Peeche Kya Hai, In Rajan, Nalini, Practising Journalism, Sage, 2005 (with A. Monteiro )
• The Plot Thickens: A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India. In T. Lavender et al (Eds.), Global Trends in Media Education, Hampton Press, 2003. (with A. Monteiro)
• The Speaking Subject: A Preamble to Jivatman, MICA Communications Review, 1 (2), 2003
• Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier, 2001. (with A. Monteiro )

• Recipient of the Howard Thomas Memorial Fellowship in Media Studies.
• Involved in documentary filmmaking and has won 10 awards, both national and international.
• Active member of Vikalp, Films for Freedom, a nation-wide collective of documentary filmmakers against censorship.
• On the boards of various institutions and NGOs, such as Indian Documentary Producers’ Association, Avehi Audio-Visual Resource Centre, etc.