Asha Achuthan
Asha Achuthan presently teaches at the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, TISS. Initially trained in medicine from Calcutta University, Asha has further trained in Women’s Studies and Cultural Studies, disciplines that she has found hospitable to her work on feminist epistemologies. Her doctoral work, from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, focussed on feminist standpoint theory and its possible deployment for a feminist critique of science in a postcolonial society such as India, putting to work experience as aporetic. Asha’s current work explores the contexts of gender and biomedicine, with a focus on feminist queer epistemological critiques of the same. Asha has published in the areas of gender diversity in science institutions, feminist standpoint methodologies, interdisciplinarity in higher education, sexuality and the making of gender in the nation. Asha is presently completing a book manuscript on the emergence of the dai figure in the Indian colonial archive, using methodologies of reading against the grain.
