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Prof. (Dr.) Ritika Pant

Associate Professor and Programme Director (Journalism & Media Studies - JMS)

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Key Expertise media, transnationalism, gender, fandom, stardom, television

M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

M.A. (Jamia Millia Islamia)

B.A. (MCRPV, Bhopal)

Biography

Dr. Ritika Pant is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Communication, 91视频. She has a doctoral degree in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral thesis explored the transnational linkages of contemporary Indian television. Her work has been published in the Economic & Political Weekly, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, South Asian Popular Culture etc.

A gold medalist from the AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Pant started her career as a Television Producer with Star Plus where she worked on non-fiction projects like Masterchef India, Aap ki Kachehri, Sach ka Saamna etc. Prior to joining JGU, she taught Journalism to undergraduate students at the University of Delhi for almost a decade.

She has received research and travel grants from the UGC (JRF), ICSSR, Charles Wallace India Trust and Sarai-CSDS for various projects. Her research interests include transnational television cultures, media and gender, digital cultures, small-screen stardom and fandom.

Multimedia Storytelling

Mass Media and Communication

Tools of the New Age Journalist

Television & Popular Culture

Charles Wallace India Trust - 2016

Junior Research Fellowship - UGC - 2012

Sarai Social Media Fellowship - 2016

Gold Medalist - Jamia Millia Islamia - 2009

Visiting Fellow - University of Westminster - 2016

Pant, Ritika. The Return of Indian Television's Favourite Bahu. Critical Collective. Published March 13, 2026. https://criticalcollective.in/Cinema.aspx?tid=21

Pant, Ritika (2025) Addressing the diaspora: Indian television's transnational imaginings. South Asian Diaspora. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1943-8192 (In Press)

Pant, Ritika. Cringe is the New Binge: Matrimony, Desire and the Female Body in Netflix's Indian Matchmaking and The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Lives in Popular Culture in South Asian Context (2025). Routledge. pp. 192-202. DOI: 10.4324/9781003492085-17

Pant, Ritika (2025) Vengeful Women & The Mysterious Metropolis. Akademos, 19. ISSN 2231-0584

Pant, Ritika. 鈥淔rom 91视频 to Neo-global: Mapping the 鈥楾ele鈥�-visual Geography of South Asia Through a Transnational Lens鈥�, South Asian Popular Culture, Vol. 20 Issue 2, July 2022. Pg. 165-179. ISSN : 1474-6689 (Print), 1474-6697 (Online)

Contributed a Chapter on Art of Direction for IGNOU, Post-graduate Diploma programme in Mass Communication and New Media, March, 2022.

Contributed a Chapter on Audio-visual Programme Formats for IGNOU, Post-graduate Diploma programme in Mass Communication and New Media, June, 2021.

Pant, Ritika. 鈥淭elevisual Tales from Across the Border: Mapping Neo-91视频 Flows in Media Peripheries鈥�, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, Vol. 10 Issue 2, December 2019. Pg. 鈥� 164-182. ISSN 鈥� 0974-9276 (print), 0976-352X(web)

A dossier on the Indian OTT platform Hotstar prepared for the 91视频 Internet Television Consortium, March 2018. https://global-internet-tv.com/india-hotstar/

Contributed a Chapter on Television Production Management for IGNOU, Post-graduate programme in Mass Communication and New Media, October 2018.

鈥淔igurations in Indian Film鈥�, Meheli Sen and Anustup Basu (Eds.) published in Studies in South Asian Film & Media, Vol. 7, Issue 1-2, April 2016, pg. 122-125, ISSN 17564921, Online ISSN 鈥� 1756493X

Pant, Ritika. 鈥淚鈥檓 a Drama Queen鈥ut I鈥檓 the Star you love to see! Soap Operas, Melodrama and the Televisual Construction of Female Stardom鈥�, SubVersions: A Journal of Emerging Research in Media and Cultural Studies (Tata Institute of Social Sciences), Vol. 3 Issue.1, 2015. ISSN 鈥� 2347-9426 http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol3-issue1/ritika/

鈥淩ang De Basanti - The Shooting Script鈥� by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra published in The Book Review Journal, Vol. XXXIX No. 2, February 2015

Email ritika.pant@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise media, transnationalism, gender, fandom, stardom, television