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Namrata Verghese is a PhD candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, and a JD candidate at Stanford Law School. Her research spans postcolonial studies, queer and trans theory, and the legal humanities. Her dissertation project, Litigating Desire: Queer Literature on Trial in Twentieth Century India, locates encounters between British colonial law and queer literary production in the decades bookending Indian Independence.

 

She was the winner of the Postcolonial Studies Association’s Postgraduate Essay Competition, and the Jeffrey S. Haber Award Prize for Student Scholarship. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Law & Literature; the Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Law, Culture, and the Humanities; the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; the Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law; and the Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation. Her public scholarship has appeared in Teen Vogue, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, and elsewhere. Her work is supported by the Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis Digital Humanities Fellowship, the Center for South Asia Graduate Research Fellowship, the McCoy Center for Ethics Fellowship, and the Mellon Centering Race Consortium Graduate Fellowship.

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