About
I am a doctoral candidate in Spanish. My primary research interests are comparative global south studies, feminist theories, and literary studies. My dissertation, "Negation and Refusal: A Study of Women’s Movements in Argentina and India," is an interdisciplinary work that studies grassroots movements by women in Argentina and India. Located at opposite ends of the globe, they have had limited socio-cultural contact and emerge from very different and particular historical trajectories. Despite such disparate histories, my project makes a case for the importance of their comparative study on the grounds of their integration within a global capitalist world system and its concomitant processes of colonial exploitation and the struggles against it.
My project investigates what the literary expressions of these distinct contexts can teach scholars, theorists, and activists, not only through their shared and common experiences of exploitation and resistance but also through their uniqueness. By developing this connection, my dissertation makes a unique south-south intervention into discussions framed and dominated for the longest time by Western European and North American contexts and concerns, contributing to a feminist scholarship that takes seriously women's experiences from the global south. It further explores how feminist movements from two very different parts of the world struggle under a similar gesture of refusal or negating the role granted to women in the hegemonic discourses of the political and ideological state structured around capitalist laws of production and reproduction.
