Karen Gabriel

Karen Gabriel heads the Department of English at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She is also the founder-director of the Centre for Gender, Culture and Social Processes at St. Stephen’s College. She has published extensively on issues of gender, sexuality, cinema, representation, melodrama, and the nation-state, which are her core research interests. Her publications include Melodrama and the Nation: Sexual Economies of Bombay Cinema 1970–2000 (2010) and the edited volume Gendered Nation (2014). She is currently working on a book on dystopia.