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Leela Gandhi
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Mumbai, India
ParentRamchandra Gandhi
Relatives
  • Mahatma Gandhi (great-grandfather)
  • C. Rajagopalachari (great-grandfather)
Academic background
Education
  • Hindu College, Delhi
  • Balliol College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineCultural and literary theory
School or traditionPostcolonial
Institutions
  • Brown University
  • Pembroke Center
  • University of Chicago

Leela Gandhi (born 1966) is an Indian-born literary and cultural theorist who is noted for her work in postcolonial theory.[1][2] She is currently the John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English and director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.[3][4][5] She is the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi previously taught at the University of Chicago, La Trobe University, and the University of Delhi. She is a founding co-editor of the academic journal Postcolonial Studies, and she serves on the editorial board of the electronic journal Postcolonial Text.[6] She is a Senior Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University.[7]

  1. ^ "Leela Gandhi speaks on postcolonial ethics in first Humanities Lecture". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  2. ^ "'Civil society is like a Socratic gadfly to the state'". The Indian Express. 24 April 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  3. ^ Leela Gandhi's Research Profile at Brown University
  4. ^ New Faculty, News from Brown
  5. ^ Amesur, Akshay (10 September 2021). "Pembroke Center endowed with $5 million donation, welcomes new director". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  6. ^ Postcolonial Text. ISSN 1705-9100.
  7. ^ Senior Fellows at the School of Criticism and Theory

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