Professor Karen Gabriel heads the English Department at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. Her research interests are fundamentally transdisciplinary and are often articulated through three mutually reinforcing research clusters around technologies: technologies of representation, technologies of power, work and governmentality and technologies of gender, sexuality and desire.

She has published extensively on the politics of visuality, representation, nationalism and form, the gender-sexualities-marginalities complex, Bombay cinema, melodrama and desire. Her publications include Melodrama and the Nation: Sexual Economies of Bombay cinema 1970-2000, the edited volume Gendered Nation, several articles in Encyclopedias, International Handbooks and highly reputed international volumes on gender. She is currently writing a monograph on homosociality.

Prof Gabriel’s international Fellowships and awards include the Digital Fellowship at Columbia University, USA; the EU International Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship; the UK Leverhulme Fellowship; post-doctoral Fellowships at the Tema: Centre for Gender Excellence in Sweden; and Scholar-in-Residence at the College of William and Mary in the USA.

She is a member of several national and international academic and professional bodies.