Sneha.Krishnan@qeh.ox.ac.

uk | Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK |+4407942849985

EDUCATION D.Phil. International Development, University of Oxford (Discipline: Social Anthropology, Expected 2014) Dissertation: Making Ladies of Girls: Middle-Class Women and Desire in Urban India Supervisor: Dr. Nandini Gooptu MSc. Interdisciplinary Area Studies Contemporary South Asia, University of Oxford (2010) Dissertation: Muscular, Moral and Manly: The Metaphor of Masculinity in Jawaharlal Nehrus Nationalism BA. History, Stella Maris College, University of Madras (2009) Research Essay: Performance and Femininity in early 20th century India Languages: English (native), Tamil (native), Malayalam (native), Hindi (advanced), French (advanced) EXPERIENCE (Appointed) Tutor in South Asian Politics, University of Oxford, to begin in October 2013 Undergraduate tutoring for students doing PPE, and History and Politics Peer Supporter, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, October 2010 to Present Tutor in Politics and Psychology, Oxford International Study Centre, April 2013 A-Level (Edexcel and WJEC) Government and Politics Ideologies and Approaches to Psychology Guest Lecturer in History, Stella Maris College, University of Madras, June to July 2012 The History of The Womens Movement in India Three lectures and two tutorial sessions for third-year History majors Tutor in Politics, Oxford International Study Centre, April 2012 A-Level (AQA) Government and Politics: Politics of the USA Individual tuition for a secondary-school finalist Instructor in Research Methods, Faculty of Social Science, University of Marburg, February 2011 Methods in Post-Colonial Research and Writing One lecture and eight tutorial sessions for social science undergraduates Co-Convener, South Asian Studies Research Colloquium, University of Oxford, January to June 2011 Teaching Assistant, Stella Maris College, University of Madras, August to September 2010 English for Academic Work Tutorials for second-year History and English majors Peer Advisor, Stella Maris College, University of Madras, June 2008 to April 2009 Welfare and Support for undergraduate students, both individually and in groups. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Defanging Unions Student Politics and the Neoliberal University in Chennai, University of Oxford, June 2013

SNEHA KRISHNAN

Acting and Being Play and Friendship in a Ladies Hostel, Centre for the Study of the Social Sciences, Kolkata, January 2013 Because Lily was Silly Corrective Violence and Cautionary Tales in a Womens College, University of Delhi, September 2012 Politicising Networks: Feminism in the Indian Metropolis, Presidents Seminar, Wolfson College, Oxford, May 2012 Madrasapattinam: Nostalgia and the City in Indian Cinema, British Association for South Asian Studies, April 2011 A masculine metaphor: Desire and the Nation in Nehrus Writing, Delhi University Dept. of English, February 2011 PUBLICATIONS Review of Cultural Anthropology Global Forces; Local Lives by JD Eller, LSE Review of Books, June 12, 2013. Forthcoming: Review of Queer activism in India: A story in the anthropology of ethics by Naisargi Dave, Contemporary South Asia Under Review: Responding to Rape: Feminism and Young Middle-Class Women AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS Postgraduate Associateship, Future of Cities Programme, University of Oxford, November 2012 to Present Institute for Financial Management and Research Scholarship for study at Oxford, September 2009 to June 2010 University Gold Medal in History, Madras University, April 2009