Moon Charania is a feminist scholar whose research explores the psychosocial dimensions of the lives of women of color; she investigates social, political, and intimate issues in relation to gender and sexuality, violence and care, racism and the diasporic experience. Dr. Charania is an Associate Professor of International Studies at Spelman College and the author of two books: Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness (Duke University Press, 2023) and Will the Real Pakistani Woman Please Stand Up: Empire, Visual Culture, and the Brown Female Body (McFarland 2015). In her most recent book, Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness, Charania investigates brownness through the provocation of the maternal – the effacing of the brown maternal and the abject, brown, maternal body are driving vexations in this book. In addition to her books, Charania’s work has appeared in leading journals such as, Meridians: feminisms, race, transnationalism, Camera Obscura, Feminist Studies, and Sexualities, and her commentary has been solicited in public forums such as USA Today, NBC, Boston Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. She has previously held fellowships at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Society, Emory University James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, as the Beyer Resident in Queer Studies at St. Lawrence University, and as a Fulbright Specialist to develop Women, Gender and Feminist Studies in the Global South. 

Charania is currently working on a third book, currently titled, “We Women, The Deranged” -- a collection of personal essays which double as a textured portrait of brownness in America.