Richa Nagar

Background & Expertise

Richa Nagar is internationally recognized for her anti-disciplinary, multilingual and multi-genre scholarship, teaching and creative work at the nexus of critical development studies, decolonial feminist epistemologies and alliance work across North/South borders. An award winning scholar, translator, editor, educator and cultural worker, she is the Inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Women and Gender Studies at Smith College, and professor emerita of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Nagar agitates stabilized ways of knowing and telling to build enduring alliances with people’s struggles for justice, having worked closely with Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan in Uttar Pradesh and Parakh Theatre since their formation. She has co/authored or co/edited over 300 articles and book chapters and nine major books, including: “Sangtin Yatra”; “Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India”; “A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development”; “Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis”; “Ek Aur Neemsaar”; “Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism”; “Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability”, and “Khari Nadi.” Nagar’s work has been translated into German, Italian, Mandarin, Marathi, Tamil, Turkish and Urdu. She is a founding co-editor of the online open-access journal, AGITATE! Unsettling Knowledges.