Inderpal Grewal

Inderpal Grewal
Known fortransnational feminism
Scientific career
FieldsCultural theory
Gender studies
Feminism
WorkplacesYale University
University of California, Irvine
San Francisco State University

Inderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include transnational and postcolonial feminist theory; feminism and human rights; nongovernmental organizations and theories of civil society and citizenship; law and subjectivity; travel and mobility and South Asian cultural studies. Together with Caren Kaplan, Grewal is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feminist cultural studies or transnational 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 and Meridians: feminisms, race, transnationalism. She is also one of three series editors for the New Wave in Women's Studies book series published by Duke University Press[2] and blogs about gender issues for the Huffington Post.[3]

Before her appointment at Yale, she taught at the University of California, Irvine and at San Francisco State University.

Grewal has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. from Punjab University.

Recent publications

Inderpal Grewal, 'Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First Century America,' Duke University Press, 2017

  • Inderpal Grewal, Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005
  • Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal, An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, September 25, 2001 (Second edition 2005)
  • Inderpal Grewal, Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Culture of Travel. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997)
  • Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal, Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, (Univ of Minnesota Press, 1994)

Notes

  1. โ†‘ "Faculty Newcomer Grewal is Expert in Postcolonial Feminist Theory". Archived from the original on 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
  2. โ†‘ "Home".
  3. โ†‘ "Inderpal Grewal | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2023-04-18.

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