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Jisha Menon

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Professor and cultural critic @Stanford; Faculty Director of Global Studies, researches law & humanities; affect, cities & capitalism. https://profiles.stanford.edu/jisha-menon Author, https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810144057/brutal-beauty/

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Jan 16

My new article "Dignity and the Drama of the Death Penalty" considers competing invocations of dignity in punishment, and how that impinges on conceptions of personhood.
Thanks to work of @dwlachance.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social among others:
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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · 6d

Join us as we discuss debt and its discontents with Jayati Ghosh, Hannah Appell and Fabio Vighi! All welcome.
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SGS Global Dialogues Series: Global Debt and its Discontents

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · 13d

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · 13d

I'm looking forward to this talk on white collar crime, jouissance, and cinema by the brilliant scholar Fabio Vighi on Oct. 15 at Stanford. All welcome. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · Sep 3

We won!!

“Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 1

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reading and writing race in law and literature

Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Aug 21

So proud of EPIC program at Stanford Global Studies working with community colleges to cultivate global citizenship and educational equity through meaningful, long-term partnerships. This is a model for how elite institutions can serve the broader public good. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Stanford outreach prepares community college students for a global workforce

Stanford Global Studies programs partner with public two-year institutions across the country to support student career paths and faculty professional development.

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congratulations! Fabulous news, and so well-deserved!!!

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · May 16

International law expert @jonyorke.bsky.social moves to intervene in our § 1983 civil rights challenge to nitrogen gas asphyxiation in Alabama, represented by @stanfordlaw.bsky.social’s Gulika Reddy and ‪@uchicagolaw.bsky.social‬'s ‪@anjliparrin.bsky.social‬: cccct.law.columbia.edu/sites/cccct....

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · May 9

Sadly, the conflict between the two nations has recurred since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947:
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The Performance of Nationalism

Cambridge Core - Asian Literature - The Performance of Nationalism

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · May 9

I wrote about the hostility between India and Pakistan through the lens of folk theatre in Kashmir in my book Performance of Nationalism (2013)

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(PDF) Menon Kashmir Performance of Nationalism

PDF | This chapter considers how the valley of Kashmir becomes the object of desire in the mimetic encounter between India and Pakistan. This chapter... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Naama Goldberg 🎗 @naamagoldberg.bsky.social · May 7

My @gould.usc.edu Online conference on Philosophy of Emotions Meets Philosophy of Law is starting next week!
It's going to be super interesting and engaging, and I'm looking forward!
Message me for the zoom link, and feel free to share widely!

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Apr 23

Looking forward!

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Women Also Know Law @womenknowlaw.bsky.social · Apr 11

@stanfordlaw.bsky.social’s Gulika Reddy was featured on @reuters.com’s Practical Law Public Interest Profile, in which she discussed her pro bono practice and academic career. Read more about Professor Reddy’s background here: www.reuters.com/practical-la....

Public Interest Profile | Practical Law The Journal | Reuters

Gulika Reddy, International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School

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Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · Mar 9

It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. @saaarah.bsky.social tells that story here.

The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants to Stop Arresting People for Domestic Violence

For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thanks! Looking forward to reading this!

Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Feb 25

No worries, I'll wait for it to be posted online. Thanks, and looking forward to reading it.

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Feb 25

Where can one read this?

Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very excited to curate new and enduring research on topics of Arts + Justice: shc.stanford.edu/arcade/collo...
Check out the work by brilliant scholars incl. @bennettcapers.bsky.social, Jennifer Nash, Amber Musser, Nicole Fleetwood, Forrest Stuart, Mary Kathryn Nagle among others.

Arts + Justice | Stanford Humanities Center

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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thanks so much, Daniel! Your scholarship in this area was formative to my own thinking here.

Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Jan 16

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Ryan Donovan @ryandonovan.bsky.social · Nov 24

I saw two challenging plays that I couldn't get out of my head and I knew I had to write about them. The resulting article just came out in the latest Theatre Journal:

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Project MUSE - "It Feels Like Being in Jail All Over Again": Staging the Criminalized Liminality of Sex Offenders

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Nick Fesette @nfesette.bsky.social · Nov 24

Check out the special issue of Theatre Journal on Abolition & Performance. My article “Abolitionist Laughter: The Joint Movement to #stopcopcity” examines the use of humor in the June 5 2023 ATL city council meeting as an ecocritical strategy of refusal and repair
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Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Nov 22

I'd love to hear what you think!

Jisha Menon @profmenon.bsky.social · Nov 22

My new article "Confessional Performance" turns to podcasts to think about performing remorse at parole hearings. Grateful to @evidenceprof.bsky.social and others whose work inspired this piece. And grateful for the stellar company in this issue.
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