Kashi Gomez-Lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Kashi Gomez

As a scholar of South Asia, Kashi Gomez specializes in intellectual history, gender, and early modernity. Her current book project is titled Half of a Body: Gender, Desire, and Brahmins in the Eighteenth Century. The book examines two contemporaneous projects of Brahminical ideological production related to sex, gender, and desire 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.

Select Publications

“Sanskrit and the Labour of Gender in Early Modern South India.” Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 1 (2023), 167-194. doi:10.1017/S0026749X21000640.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

M.A., University of California, Berkeley

B.A., University of California, Berkeley