Madhavi Menon
professor
Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Ashoka University
India
Biography
Madhavi Menon works at the intersection of identity, desire, politics, and literature. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Toronto 2004), Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (Palgrave 2008), and Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism (Minnesota, 2015). She is also the editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Duke 2010), which put queer theory in conversation with every one of Shakespeare's poems and plays. Named a 'monumental' book by CHOICE magazine, Shakesqueer is already in its second print run.
Research Interest
Sexuality, reproductive
