Vanita Reddy

Vanita Reddy is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University, with faculty affiliations in Women’s and Gender Studies and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute. She is the author of Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture (Temple UP, 2016), one of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a point of entry into examination of South Asian diasporic public culture. Her articles have appeared in the journals South Asian Popular Culture, Contemporary Literature, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and in The Routledge Handbook of the Indian diaspora. She is beginning a second book on queer feminist comparative diasporas and racialization.