Inderpal Grewal

Inderpal Grewal is a Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University with joint appointments in American Studies and Anthropology. Her primary research interests include the relationship between gender and globalization, transnational and postcolonial feminist theories, civil society and non-governmental organizations, and citizenship and diaspora. Professor Grewal often focuses her work within the context of South Asian cultural studies and is currently undertaking a book project entitled The Gender of Security based on relations between gender, the state, security, and feminisms in contemporary India and the United States. She is the author of several books including an introduction to the field of transnational feminist studies in Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (ed. with Caren Kaplan; University of Minnesota Press, 1994), a study of narratives and discourses of travel in Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (Duke University Press, 1996), an anthology on women's studies designed for undergraduate students entitledGender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies (ed. with Caren Kaplan; McGraw Hill, 2001, 2005), and, most recently, an examination of discourses surrounding transnational subjects in Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (Duke University Press, 2005). Professor Grewal actively works in several editorial and advisory capacities, most notably in service to Women's Studies Quarterly, Sikh Formations, Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, andMeridians: feminisms, race, transnationalism. Prior to assuming her current position, Professor Grewal taught at the University of California-Irvine, where she served as Director of Women's Studies and launched the Ph.D. Program in Culture and Theory. She holds an M.A. from Punjab University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley.