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Congratulations Dr. Gabriel
College is likely to soon see the first woman Vice Principal in its long history.
Dr Karen Gabriel has reportedly been selected for the post at a time when a Delhi University administration is is trying to block the extension given to Dr John Verghese as Principal.
The governing body of St Stephen’s College is defying the university move.
Karen Gabriel heads the English Department at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She is also Founder-Director, Center for Gender, Culture and Social Processes at St Stephen’s College.
She has published extensively on issues of gender, sexuality, cinema, representation, melodrama and the nation-state, which are her core research interests.
Her publications include “Melodrama and the Nation: Sexual Economies of Bombay cinema 1970-2000”, and the edited volume “Gendered Nation”
She is currently working on a book on dystopia, and one on homosociality.
Her international fellowships and awards include the Digital Fellowship (2021), World Society Foundatio and the Council for European Studies (CES-WSF) at Columbia University, the European Union's International Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship, Scholar in Residence at the College of William and Mary (USA), the Leverhulme Fellowship at the UK, three post-doctoral Fellowships for Gender Excellence at the Centre for Gender Excellence, Linköping University, Sweden, and the Government of Netherlands fellowship for her doctoral research.
