S. Charusheela (Charu) is Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS), University of Washington, Bothell. Prior to joining IAS in 2011, she held positions at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2007–2010), University of Hawaii at Mānoa (1999–2007), and Franklin & Marshall College (1995–1998). She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1997. She has served as editor of the journal Rethinking Marxism (August 2005–July 2009), as elected member of the Governing Board of the Cultural Studies Association (2009–2015), and as elected member of the Board of the International Association for Feminist Economics (2003–2006, 2007–2010). Her research examines the relationship between gender, development, identity, and postcoloniality/globalisation. Her co-edited volume (with Eiman Zein-Elabdin), Postcolonialism Meets Economics, was published by Routledge in 2004. Selected other publications include “Response: History, Historiography, and Subjectivity”, (2011) and “Engendering Feudalism: Modes of Production Debates Revisited” (2010, both in Rethinking Marxism), “Gender and the Stability of Consumption: A Feminist Contribution to Post Keynesian Economics” (2010) and “Social Analysis and the Capabilities Approach: A Limit to Martha Nussbaum's Universalist Ethics” (2009, both in the Cambridge Journal of Economics), “The Diaspora at Home” (2007, in Cultural Dynamics, special issue on Rethinking South Asian Diaspora Studies), and “intersectionality” (2013, in Deborah Figart and Tonia Warnecke, eds., Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life).