South Asia Studies
Lecturer in Sanskrit
Williams Hall 805
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Thursday, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. and by appointment
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
As a scholar of South Asia, Kashi Gomez specializes in issues related to the history of Sanskrit literary and intellectual production, gender, and early modernity. Her current book project is titled "Sanskrit Co-wives: Making Ideologies of Gender and Desire in Eighteenth-Century Tanjavur." The book examines two contemporaneous projects of Brahminical ideological production related to sex, gender, and sexuality in Maratha-ruled Tanjavur between 1676 and 1735. Dr. Gomez is the Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.