Jisha Menon
@ProfMenon
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Professor and cultural critic @Stanford; Faculty Director of Global Studies, researches law & performance; race, gender, justice; affect, cities and capitalism.
Stanford, CA
Joined May 2020
I’m excited to announce the upcoming publication of my book, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India. So grateful to friends and colleagues who have inspired and sustained me, and have helped bring this book to fruition: @NorthwesternUP
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Very excited to curate new and enduring research on topics of Arts + Justice: Check out the work by brilliant scholars incl. @BennettCapers, Jennifer Nash, Amber Musser, Nicole Fleetwood, @ForrestDStuart, Mary Kathryn Nagle among others.
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RT @StanfordGlobal: Stanford’s Scholar Rescue Fund offers residencies to international scholars facing persecution in their countries. Over…
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RT @StanfordGlobal: REGISTER NOW | Friday, Feb 21 at 12 pm 🌍Join us for Global Dialogues: Afro-Asian Relations Across Atlantic and Indian…
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RT @HalimaKazem: Join us for this @Stanford University Event on efforts to continue educating women and girls in Afghanistan. Feb 3rd in-p…
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My article "Dignity and the Drama of the Death Penalty" considers competing invocations of dignity in punishment, and how that impinges on conceptions of personhood. Thanks to work of @ljstprof @Law_Cult_Huma @ArsScripta @JonathanSimon59 @LawEmotion_CRN
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My new article "Confessional Performance" turns to podcasts to think about performing remorse at parole hearings. Grateful to @d_a_sklansky, @EvidenceProf @danielmedwed and others whose work inspired this piece. @JournalTheatre @ArsScripta
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RT @sandiptodg: Brilliant essay from Joy Wang arguing that "pluralism as both a problem of and solution to identitarian difference exemplif…
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RT @daniel_dsj2110: Jan-Werner Müller: Quit calling Trump a fascist: “Trump is similar to far-right populists like Modi and Orbán. But fasc…
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RT @BennettCapers: Looking forward to talking about Afrofuturism and the Law tomorrow @StanfordLaw. I promise it will be a lively discus…
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RT @meenakandasamy: The brave revolutionary Prof G N Saibaba passed away today at a hospital in Hyderabad. Farewell comrade, this news is h…
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@apparitionnow @ashpotdar Spot on! Couldn’t agree more. The reverential treatment of canonical playwrights bores me to tears.
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RT @LowryPressly: Simply stunned by this extraordinarily thoughtful, profound review by Ben Tarnoff in @NewYorker: "Lowry Pressly’s new boo…
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RT @macfound: Meet Shailaja Paik, a historian and 2024 #MacFellow exploring the intersection of caste, gender, and sexuality by documenting…
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RT @thariel: book has a cover and a website, yikes! 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' will be out from…
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