# Anjali Yadav >![[anjali-yadav.jpg]] > *she/her* > > **PhD Scholar** > Department of Asian Languages & Literature > University of Washington - Seattle (USA) ## Conference Participation - **Paper:** [[Secular Literature of a Devotional Queen - Brajdāsī’s Collection of Khayāl from Eighteenth Century Kishangarh]] - **Session:** [[Session 6. Lyrical & Dramatic Circulation]] - **Presentation Mode:** in-person ## Profile Anjali Yadav is a doctoral student in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her dissertation attempts to recover the voices of eighteenth-century women from Rajasthan who were writing about Radhā-Krishna devotion. She is interested in analyzing how gender, caste, and economic histories intersect in the context of devotional literature. Beyond this, she also engages with modern Hindi Dalit Literature and its intersection with Dalit feminism. Anjali holds MA degrees from the University of Washington in Asian Languages and Literature (2023) and Ambedkar University Delhi in Literary Art & Creative Writing (2019). Her research languages are Modern Hindi, Braj, Avadhi, Marwari, and Sanskrit. ## Links [Researcher's Profile](https://asian.washington.edu/people/anjali-yadav) ### Contact [email protected]