Ruth Vanita is Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Montana, and former Reader of English at Delhi University. She was a founder of Manushi and co-edited it from 1978-90. She is the author of Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination, and co-author of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History; forthcoming publications include a collection of essays on gender and sexuality and her translation of some Hindi fiction by Ugra.