Ruth Vanita

Ruth Vanita (born 1955) is an Indian academic, activist and author who specializes in lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, British and South Asian literary history.

While living in Delhi in 1978, Vanita co-founded Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society, a journal that combined academic research and grassroots activism. She served as the journal's co-editor from 1979 to 1990. She also was a reader at Miranda House, and in the English Department of the University of Delhi. Author of several books and many literary translations, she has also published many academic articles on Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, and Indian literature in journals such as Shakespeare Survey, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Comparative Drama, Postcolonial Studies, GLQ and Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. She is now a professor at the University of Montana as part of the Liberal Studies Program.