Prasannanshu is an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Delhi; M.Sc. (‘European Masters in Clinical Linguistics’), on the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship of the European Union (Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, Netherlands, and University of Potsdam, Germany; he also holds an LL.B. and M.A. (English). He was a Visiting Fellow of the British Academy and the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, UK.