Inderpal Grewal | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | transnational feminism |
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| Fields | Cultural theory Gender theory Feminism |
| Institutions | Yale University University of California at Irvine San Francisco State University |
Inderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies atYale University, and a key figure in the academic discipline ofwomen's studies. She is an influential feminist scholar whose research interests include transnational and postcolonialfeminist theory; feminism andhuman rights;nongovernmental organizations and theories ofcivil society and citizenship; law and subjectivity; travel and mobility and South Asian cultural studies. Together withCaren Kaplan, Grewal is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feministcultural studies ortransnational feminism.[1] She has served on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of core journals in the field of feminist cultural studies,Women's Studies Quarterly;Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies andMeridians: feminisms, race, transnationalism. She is also one of three series editors for theNew Wave in Women's Studies book series published byDuke University Press.,[2] and blogs about gender issues for theHuffington Post.[3]
Before her appointment at Yale, she taught at theUniversity of California at Irvine and atSan Francisco State University.
Prof. Grewal has aPh.D. inEnglish from theUniversity of California at Berkeley and an M.A. fromPunjab University. She was the valedictorian of her high school class at St. Agnes' School inHowrah,West Bengal,India.
Inderpal Grewal, 'Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First Century America,' Duke University Press, 2017
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