Anjali Yadav is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her dissertation attempts to recover the voices of eighteenth-century women from Rajasthan who were writing about Radhā-Krishna devotion. She is interested in analyzing how gender, caste, and economic histories intersect in the context of devotional literature. Beyond this, she also engages with modern Hindi Dalit Literature and its intersection with Dalit feminism.
Yadav is one of the co-authors of ‘“ek admi tha, usne shadi karli…” (There Was a Man, Who Got Married…): Female Agency and Domestication in Omkara (2006)” in ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She holds MA degrees from the University of Washington in Asian Languages and Literature (2023) and Ambedkar University Delhi in Literary Art & Creative Writing (2019). Her research languages are Modern Hindi, Braj, Avadhi, Marwari, and Sanskrit.