Geeta Patel is the Director of UVA in India and an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. She has published widely on the collusive conundrums posed by bringing finance, science, sexuality and aesthetics together. She has also translated lyric and prose from Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi and Braj, and is the author of the acclaimed, Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry. She is co-editor of two journal issues that engage several of her areas of expertise: “Area Impossible” for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016), with Anjali Arondekar; and “Trust and Islamic Capital” for Society and Business Review (2016-2017) with Rula Al-Abdulrazak.
