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 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 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.