Bharat Jayram Venkat is an assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics, with a joint appointment in the Department of History. He is the author of At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, 2021), winner of the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences. He is also the director of the UCLA Heat Lab.
Bharat Jayram Venkat
Articles
What Not to Wear
Bharat Jayram Venkat explores the history of how the business suit became the unit of measurement for heat, in an excerpt from LARB Quarterly, no. 37: Fire.
The Weather in “Passing”
Bharat Jayram Venkat looks at Nella Larsen’s novella, “Passing,” along with its film adaptation, to articulate a theory of “weather fiction.”
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