Dr Prema Arasu was born in Perth, Western Australia, and lives in the Perth CBD with their partner and cats. Prema is an above average skiier, an average fencer, and a below average theremin player.
Prema graduated from Penrhos College in 2010 and went on to study a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Western Australia before transferring to a Bachelor of English and Cultural Studies. Prema then completed a BA (Hons) in English and Cultural Studies and was awarded a First Class for their dissertation on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and John Milton's Paradise Lost.
In 2017-2018 Prema completed an MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of St Andrews in Scotland with a masters thesis on the metafictional fantasy worlds of Terry Pratchett and Diana Wynne Jones.
In 2019 Prema began a creative writing PhD at the University of Western Australia titled The Anatomy of Witchcraft: Gender in Secondary Worlds and was awarded their doctorate in 2022. In 2023 the creative manuscript of Prema's doctoral dissertation, The Anatomy of Witchcraft, was shortlisted for the Fremantle Press Fogarty Literary Award.
From 2022 to 2025 Prema Arasu was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre.
Prema has a strong interest in speculative fiction, experimental forms, sea monsters, mythology, multispecies ethnographies, posthumanities and animalities, ecocriticism, video games, and critical theory.
Prema teaches creative writing and literature within the UWA School of Indigenous Studies and the School of English and Literary Studies, and supervises Honours, Masters, and PhD projects in Creative Writing and Literary Studies.
View Prema's full research profile on the UWA Research Repository.
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