Kashi Gomez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As a scholar of South Asia, she specializes in issues related to the history of Sanskrit intellectual production, gender, and early modernity. Prior to her appointment as Assistant Professor, she was the Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her current book project, Half a Body: Gender, Desire, and Brahmin Intellectuals in the Eighteenth Century is an intellectual history of Sanskrit reading practices and conceptions of gender. Half a Body addresses how elite, dominant caste women were engaged as real and imagined readers, writers, and consumers of Sanskrit literature. Focusing on the writing of two ministers and two co-wives, writing in Sanskrit from Maratha-ruled Tanjavur between 1676 and 1735, the book illuminates dominant Brahminical conceptions of gender, agency, and desire during this period, showing how they were made and remade through practices of reading and citation.