Dr. Preity R. Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her monograph, An Ordinary Landscape of Violence (Rutgers Press, 2024), is the first ethnography of same-sex loving women in Guyana examining the profound and dynamic connections between affect, violence and queerness.

Dr. Kumar's insightful analysis reveals how violence is not merely an external force but an embodied experience that women navigate and reenact within a hetero-patriarchal society, challenging conventional notions of violence and survival. By tracing the historical, socio-economic, and cultural dimensions of violence, she offers a groundbreaking perspective on how these women engage with and resist state structures, family dynamics, organized religions, and self-harm to survive and reinvent themselves.

Her research appears in international journals and volumes in the United Kingdom, Caribbean and Poland, in the Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies; Journal of Lesbian Studies; InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies; Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies; Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean. Her work is forthcoming in Rethinking Sexual and Gendered Violence in the Caribbean and Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminism in the Caribbean. Her current projects continue to explore affect, violence, and queerness within Caribbean diasporic communities in Toronto and New York, solidifying her reputation as a leading scholar in feminist and queer studies.