Queering the Prison: Criminal Intimacies and the Minor Revolutionary Life of Homosexuality in Colonial India

Speaker: Rovel Sequeira

Rovel Sequeira is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, and of English, by courtesy, at the University of Michigan where he co-directs the Global South Gender and Sexuality (GS2) Collective. Dr. Sequeira is currently working on a book manuscript on sexual scientific histories and fictions in India, tentatively titled The Empire and its Deviants: Global Sexology and the Racial Grammar of Sex in Colonial India. His work has been published in Modernism/modernity, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, History of the Human Sciences and is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Queer Modernisms and the Oxford Handbook of LGBTQ History.

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