Durba Mitra

I am faculty in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard, and work at the intersection of feminist and queer studies. My classes are diverse and inclusive of all students at Harvard, and I teach across many disciplines and areas, including gender and sexuality, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of sexuality, and feminist science studies. My research looks at how ideas of sexuality have shaped how we think and write about progress in modern societies, focused in particular on colonial and postcolonial societies. You can find some of these ideas in my book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, https://press.princeton.edu/titles/30068.html). I look forward to engaging with students at Lowell House on everything from feminist and queer studies, to dance (which I love), to the upper Midwest (where I grew up!).