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Dr. Pranta Pratik Patnaik teaches in the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Central University of Rajasthan. He specialised in sociology of gender and media during his learning years in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, New Delhi) and University of Delhi. He has gained research experience working for the rights of indigenous people and the disabled during his brief stint as a research assistant in National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), New Delhi. His areas of interest include cultural studies, globalisation, gender & sexualities, qualitative research, Television and cinema studies.

In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Patnaik has published extensively in journals and edited volumes, addressing topics such as gender representation in media, masculinity on Indian television, and the intersection of media and cultural rights. He has also been actively involved in organizing workshops and seminars, contributing to the academic discourse on media and culture.

He has worked as a collaborator in a project of Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India undertaken by Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC, New Delhi) on Media and Migration. He has presented several papers in national and international conferences on topics ranging from developmental discourses, politics of representation of the body, gender, space, and sexuality on television and cinema.