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Professor of English,
Director, Centre for Studies in Gender & Sexuality, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Tufts University
Madhavi Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University. She earned her Bachelors and Masters in English from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and her PhD from Tufts University. Prior to joining Ashoka, she taught at Ithaca College and American University.
Her most recent book manuscript is titled Love in the Moonlight: Sufism, Sexuality, Shakespeare. Earlier books include The Law of Desire (Speaking Tiger, 2021), Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India (Speaking Tiger, 2018), Indifference to Difference: Towards a Queer Universalism (Minnesota, 2015), and several books on queer theory. She is also the editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Duke University Press, 2011).
Professor Menon’s research interests include, among other things, Queer Theory, Renaissance Literature, and Shakespeare. Broadly, Professor Menon works with questions of sexuality, desire, gender, politics, and identity.
Publications
Books Edited
“Objectifying Desire in Goliyon ki Rasleela: Ram-Leela,” Thea Buckley and Rosa Garcìa-Periago, eds., Shakespeare, May 2025, pp 1-19
“The Shape of U, or Writing What I am Not,” in Melissa Sanchez, ed., Routledge Companion to Queer Studies, March 2025, pp 201-13
“Allegorical Desire, or, The Sufi ‘Phoenix and the Turtle,’” in Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Emma Smith, eds. “Shakespeare’s Poetry,” Shakespeare Survey, August 2024, pp 79-90
Comments on “Gender and Sexuality: The State of the Fields” WSC 2021, in Shakespeare Survey 77, 2023; rpt. Cambridge University Press, 2024
“Subaltern Desires,” in Two Letters & a Postscript: The Art of Qasim Riza Shaheen. London: Cornerhouse/HOME Publications, August 2023
“Hadiya, Hinduism, and Heterosexuality,” in Socio-Legal Review 17.1, pp 52-66, October 2021
“Knowing Sex,” in the Issue on Sexuality and Intimacy, InPlainSpeak, February 2019 http://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/issue-in-focus-uncoupling-intimacy-from-sexuality/
Great Books
Introduction to Literary Theory
Reading Theory
Performance Anxiety: Renaissance Drama
The Law of Desire
Desiring Film
Shakesqueer
Sufism, Sexuality, Shakespeare
