Priyamvada Gopal

Priyamvada Gopal is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation, and the Transition to Independence; The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration; and Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent. She has written widely for the press in India, the USA, and Britain in addition to appearing on the BBC, Channel 4, and Al-Jazeera English. In 2021, Prospect Magazine named her  one of the World’s Top Ten Thinkers.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has had a long time interest in dance, including Bharatanatyam and ballet.