Dr. T T Sreekumar is an Indian writer, social and literary critic, and political analyst. He is currently working in The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad as Head of the department, at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and also serves as the Director of EMMRC. He is a bilingual author of several books and articles in Malayalam and English, and pens a fortnightly column since 2014 in Madhyamam.
Sreekumar did his M.phil. in Applied Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and his Ph.D. in STS (Science, Technology and Society) from The School of Humanities and Social sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
Beginning his career as lecturer at Institute of Management in Government, Thiruvananthapuram in 1996, Sreekumar worked as doctoral instructor in HKUST and later joined National University of Singapore as faculty in 2004. He was the Professor and chair, Fellows program and Digital Communications at MICA, Ahamedabad during 2013–2016. In 2017, he joined The School of Interdisciplinary Studies, English and Foreign Languages University as Professor.
With wide teaching and research experience across South East Asia and South Asia, Sreekumar's papers on Asian modernity,[1] development, e-governance,[2] mobile ecology and rural network societies focus on socio-political critique of information technology and New Media. His book ICTs and Development in India: Perspectives on the Rural Network Society provides a critical analysis of the neoliberal glorification of the notion of ICT4D (Information and communication technologies for development).
A prolific writer and columnist in Malayalam, his books include Utharadhunikakkappuram (Beyond Postmodernism), Charitravum Adhunikathayum (History and Modernity), Civil samoohavum idathupakshavum (Civil Society and the Left), Nava Samoohikatha (New Sociality) and Vayanayum Prathirodhavum (Reading and Resistance). The fortnightly column in Madhyamam daily, Naalaam Kannu that he pens, offers critical views on Kerala's sociopolitical contexts. His staunch and direct critique of contemporary politics and culture makes him one among Kerala's prominent intellectual voices. Interviews with him have appeared in major Malayalam periodicals like Mathrubhumi[3] [4] (2012 Annual issue pg6-18) Chandrika[5] (December 2016).He received the C.B.Kumar Endowment Award of Kerala Sahitya Academy for the year 2020 for the book "Vayanayum Prathirodhavum".
List of Books
English
Malayalam
Sreekumar's contribution toward the sociopolitical critique of Information technology in Asia and the critical positions are propounded in his book ICTs and Development: Perspectives on the Rural Network Society (Anthem Books, 2011). He has also been the Chief Editor (2013-2017) of Journal of Creative Communications (peer-reviewed, international Sage Publication), and the Associate Editor (2014-2019) of Media Asia (Taylor & Francis). He is currently the editor of International Journal of Media Studies, published by EFL University. He also serves as a member of the editorial board and as a manuscript reviewer for several other prominent journals.