Carmel Christy Kattithara Joseph
Bard CollegeCarmel Christy K J is a cultural studies scholar interested in the politics and affective manifestations of gender, environment, caste and urban space in South Asia. She works as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research associate at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut. She has published on the intersectionality of caste, gender and environmental justice in India, the interrelationship between land, caste and gender; caste bias in Indian higher educational institutions as well as on displacement, religion and urban space-making in India. Her book Sexuality and Public Space in India: Reading the Visible (2017) discusses the hyper-visibility of women’s sexuality in relation to caste. Carmel is working on her next monograph about urban space-making in postcolonial India with reference to the question of inequality, environment, protest movements and spatial justice.