Priyamvada Gopal

Priyamvada Gopal (born 1968) is an Indian-born academic, writer and public intellectual who is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. Her primary teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial studies, South Asian literature, critical race studies, and the politics and cultures of empire and globalisation. She has written three books engaging these subjects: Literary Radicalism in India (2005), The Indian English Novel (2009) and Insurgent Empire (2019). Her third book, Insurgent Empire, was shortlisted for the 2020 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. She also regularly contributes to several newspapers and publications, including The Guardian, The Hindu, Al Jazeera, and The Nation. Gopal's remarks about race and empire have received extensive media attention. In 2021, she was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine