When institutions fail, who protects the people inside them? What if silence is more dangerous than speaking up?

Guest: Dr. Prerna Subramanian, Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Researcher

Host: Dr. Amanda Patterson Partin

Episode Summary

In this episode of La Rhetorica, Dr. Prerna Subramanian joins the podcast to discuss academic labor, institutional failure, and the emotional realities of teaching, writing, and mentoring in privatized higher education. Drawing from her experiences in Indian and transnational academic spaces, she reflects on how community becomes essential when institutions fail, how dissent is navigated under constraint, and why vulnerability functions as a rhetorical and pedagogical strategy.

The episode also explores academic wr ...