Meena Venkataramanan is a book critic, journalist, and essayist who writes about identity, culture, and race. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other outlets. She earned a BA in English from Harvard University and an MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She is currently a doctoral student in English at Brown University, focusing on the intersection of contemporary Asian and Black diaspora literature, particularly in the United Kingdom, Anglophone Caribbean, and United States.
Meena Venkataramanan
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Writing on Public Books
“A Safe Haven”: Huguenots, Jews, and Bangladeshis in Brick Lane, London
Jamme Masjid, the famed mosque at 59 Brick Lane, used to be a Jewish synagogue; before that, a Methodist church; and even before that, a Huguenot chapel.
The Pacific Islands: United by Ocean, Divided by Colonialism
“Deep in the Pacific, the impact of Western colonialism runs deep: it even shapes the way Pacific Islanders experience time.”
