Malayalam Research Journal

Dr. Sujith Parayil

Sujith Parayil is working as Assistant Professor, Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, J.N.U., New Delhi.

Qualifications:

  • PhD in Cultural Studies, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
  • M.Phil in History, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad
  • M.A in Interdisciplinary History, School of Social Sciences, MG University, Kottayam
Areas of Interest/Specialization:
  • Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Photographic Representation, Cultural History and Film Studies
Experience:
  • Assistant Professor, Centre for Media Studies, SSS, JNU, April 2014 onwards
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, May 2010-March 2014
  • Assistant Professor, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS Mumbai, June 2009-April 2010
  • Fellow in Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, August 2008-May 2009

ARTICLES:

  • "Family Photographs: Visual mediation of the Social". Critical Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3.1-20, October 2014.
  • "Visual Perception and Cultural Memory: Typecast and Typecast(e)ing in Malayalam Cinema". Synoptique—An Online Journal of Film and Moving Images Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2014.
  • "Visuality of Ethnography: Texts and Contexts", Tapasam, A Quarterly Journal for Kerala Studies, 5(1-4), 22-81, 2010.
  • "Icons of the Reformist Period and ‘Re-formed’ Icons of the Present", Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture http://tasveerghar.net/2007/sujith/index.html
  • "Photography and Colonial Modernity in Keralam" Space, Sexuality and Postcolonial Cultures (ENRECA occasional Paper Series: VI, Manas Ray(ed.) Published by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2003.

Official Address:
Assistant Professor, Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Phone: 08106045068
E-Mail: sparayil@mail.jnu.ac.in, sparayil@gmail.com