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Prema Arasu is an adjunct research fellow at the University of Western Australia, specializing in creative writing and the environmental humanities. They hold a BA (Hons) in English Cultural Studies from UWA, a Master of Letters in Modern Contemporary Literature Culture from the University of St. Andrews, and a PhD in Creative Writing from UWA. Prema's PhD dissertation, titled 'Anatomy Witchcraft: Gender Secondary Worlds', explores queer feminist scholarship to investigate and subvert gender expectations within the fantasy genre. Prema's works include speculations on themes such as speculative fiction, oceanic poetics, and multispecies ethnography. They have been recognized with the 2023 shortlist for the Fremantle Press Fogarty Literary Award and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre. Prema's research interests extend to the cultural imagination of ocean depths and their representation in popular culture, including literature, horror films, and video games.
University of Western Australia • Perth
Research fellow specializing in creative writing and environmental humanities.
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