Jisha Menon

Jisha Menon is Robert G. Freeman Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where she is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies and, by courtesy, Comparative Literature. She is the author of Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India (Northwestern UP, 2021) and The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition (Cambridge UP, 2013). She is coeditor (with Patrick Anderson) of Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and (with Milija Gluhovic) of Performing the Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.) She serves as the Fisher Family Director of Stanford Global Studies.