Deepti Misri

  • (she/her)
  • Associate Professor
  • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES
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Deepti Misri is a literary and cultural critic whose work focuses broadly on questions of gender, violence and representation. Deepti Misri's interests span South Asian literary and cultural production, transnational and decolonial feminist studies, and feminist theory and criticism. She is the author of Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India (University of Illinois Press 2014, and Women Unlimited 2015), which won the Eugene M Kayden Book Award, 2016. She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (2022), in addition to special issues and numerous articles exploring how structures of state violence such as occupation and settler colonization intersect with gender, caste, ethnicity and disability. She currently serves on the editorial board of English Language Notes.

Now available from University of Illinois Press:

Beyond Partition:
Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India

Winner of the Eugene M Kayden Book Award, 2016. Awarded to the best book in Literary Studies (including English literature, non-English literatures and Comparative Literature) by a UCB faculty member.

For more information, see Beyond Partition at University of Illinois Press