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Geeta Patel is a Professor of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Virginia, affiliated with the Women, Gender & Sexuality studies program. She holds three science degrees and a doctorate in inter-disciplinary South Asian Studies from Columbia University. Her research focuses on intersections of gender, colonialism, sexuality, finance, and science in South Asian contexts, with a specialization in Urdu poetry and modernism. Current projects include studies on Ismat Chughtai, historical pensions, and bacteriology’s relationship to nationalism.
Education: PhD in South Asian Studies (Columbia University), three science degrees (not specified). Teaching focuses on interdisciplinary methodologies bridging natural sciences to humanities, South Asian popular culture, and the history of trade/finance.
Research Interests:
- Queer readings of Urdu modernism
- Techno-intimacy and financial capitalism
- History of pensions/insurance in colonial India
- Bacterial life and nationalist discourse
- Advertising and cultural fantasy
Publications highlight critical engagement with Miraji’s poetry, financialization theory, and intersections of science/gender. Ongoing collaborations include translations of Miraji’s poetry with Meghan Hartman.
Her work re-centers Indian contributions to financial systems (e.g., Madras Civil Fund) and challenges Eurocentric narratives of welfare state development.
