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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad.

I obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur, and M.A. from the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal.

My book, Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint was published by Sage-Stree (2020). Aesthetics in India: Transitions and Transformations was published by Orient Blackswan (2023).

Research Interests:

I research and teach in the interdisciplinary areas of Humanities and Social Sciences with a specific focus on gender, caste, governance, and citizenship. My areas of research broadly include Gender studies, Dalit feminism, Intersectionality, and Feminist Standpoint Theory. I am specifically interested in exploring the myriad ways in which gender interacts and intersects with different structures that impacts different groups of women differently. Currently I am working on caste, gender and the Partition of Bengal, and feminisms in the era of social media. In the coming years I also intend to broaden my research in the area of gender and cultural studies with special emphasis on sexuality and representation in literature and popular media. I am interested to understand how gender can be used as a praxis vis-à-vis other emancipatory epistemologies to provide a more holistic solution to the ongoing problematics of equality and discrimination.

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I am looking for Ph.D. students in the following areas: Gender and Governance, Sexuality/Sex Work, Postcolonial Literature, and Historiography. Interested candidates may send their proposals via email only and apply via IITH PhD admissions portal.