Inderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, and a key figure in the academic discipline of women's studies

Women's studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...

. She is an influential feminist scholar whose research interests include transnational and postcolonial feminist theory

Feminist theory

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical discourse, it aims to understand the nature of gender inequality...

; feminism and human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

; nongovernmental organizations and theories of civil society

Civil society

Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...

 and citizenship; law and subjectivity; travel and mobility and South Asian cultural studies. Together with Caren Kaplan

Caren Kaplan

Caren Kaplan is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California at Davis, and a prominent figure in the academic discipline of women's studies. Together with Inderpal Grewal, Kaplan is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feminist cultural studies...

, Grewal is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feminist cultural studies

Cultural studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...

 or transnational feminism

Transnational feminism

Transnational Feminism is a contemporary paradigm. The name highlights the difference between international and transnational conceptions of feminism, and favours the latter...

. 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: femininisms, 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

Duke University Press

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

San Francisco State University

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Prof. Grewal has a Ph.D in English

English language

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 from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. from Punjab University

Punjab University

Punjab University may refer to:In India:*Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana*Punjab Technical University*Punjabi University, Patiala*Panjab University, ChandigarhIn Pakistan:*University of the Punjab, Lahore...

. She was the valedictorian of her high school class at St. Agnes' School in Howrah, West Bengal

West Bengal

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, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Recent publications

• Inderpal Grewal, Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Durham: Duke University Press
  Duke University Press
  Duke University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals, and a unit of Duke University. It publishes approximately 120 books annually and more than 40 journals, as well as offering five electronic collections...
  
  , 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)

Videos of Inderpal Grewal

• 2007 Keynote address at the Duke Feminist Theory Workshop
• Inderpal Grewal on a feminist panel on transnational feminism and terrorism
• Inderpal Grewal on a panel: "Liberalism and its others"
• 2011 Lecture at UCLA

External links

• Yale University Faculty Webpage