Vanita Reddy

Vanita Reddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and affiliated with Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University's College of Liberal Arts. Her research focuses on race, sexuality, and gender in transnational contexts, particularly within South Asian American and global diasporic communities. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California-Davis (2009), an M.A. (2002), and a B.A. from Trinity University (1998).

Her work examines cultural identity, social belonging, and political community through analyses of literature, film, and visual art. Key research areas include transnational literatures, queer theory, feminist thought, and critical race studies. Notable publications include *Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture* (2016) and articles on Afro-Asian poetics, #MeToo transnationalism, and diasporic aesthetics.

Reddy has received awards such as the Arts and Humanities Fellowship (2018-2021) and the Aggie Allies Rainbow Award (2016). Her grants include collaborative projects on feminist and queer Afro-Asian formations. She contributes to interdisciplinary initiatives exploring beauty politics, cross-racial alliances, and global gender justice.