Radhika Gajjala (PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1998) is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University and currently Director of the American Culture Studies program.
Her book Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women was published in 2004. She has co-edited collections on South Asian Technospaces, Global Media Culture and Identity, and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice. Her latest book, Weavings of the Real and Virtual: Cyberculture and the Subaltern, is forthcoming in 2012. In addition, she has some edited collections published as well, one of which is forthcoming in 2012 (Cyberfeminism 2.0) and co-edited with Yeonju Oh.
She is presently continuing work on two interrelated projects—one on microfinance online and money in virtual worlds and social media in relation to the ITization and NGOization of Global socio-economic work and play environments (some of which has been written about in articles and in the forthcoming book), and the other on coding and placement of affect and labor in digital diasporas, while also working on an edited collection on digital diasporas and globalization.