Lalita du Perron

Lalita du Perron received her PhD from the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at SOAS at the University of London. Her monograph Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre: Thumri Lyrics was published by Routledge in 2007, followed in 2013 by the co-authored The Songs of Khyal, published by Manohar.  Her broad research interests range from song texts and courtesan performance in colonial India to gender and LGBTQ issues in contemporary South Asia. She published an essay in a special issue of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, “Queer Forum on Navigating Normativity Between Field and Academe in India”in 2018, and her essay in Boyhood Reimagined: Stories of Queer Moms Parenting Sons, was published by Motina Books in June 2025. An article from her current project on consent and bodily autonomy, “Eve-teasing in song: coercion, consent, Krishna, and courtesans” is in progress.