Jasbir Jain Author & Editor

Jasbir Jain is the Honorary Director of the Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (IRIS), Jaipur and was Sahitya Akademi Writer-in-Residence (2009), and Emeritus Fellow (2001–2003) both at the University of Rajasthan. Recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, she is an elected Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and has had teaching assignments in Europe and the United States. She is the author of Theorising Resistance: Narratives in History and Politics (2012); Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency (2011); Beyond Postcolonialism: Dreams and Realities of a Nation (2006); Gendered Realities, Human Spaces (2003); among several others. Her current interests are in theory and narratology and in exploring traditions.