Dr Prema Arasu was born in Perth, Western Australia, to immigrant parents from Burma and Malaysia. Prema enjoys skiing and fencing, often simultaneously.
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, which was completed in 2016. 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.
Prema Arasu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre. Prema works as part of a multidisciplinary science team as a creative researcher.
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 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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