Tara K. Menon is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Harvard University. She holds a BA in English from Columbia University and a MA, MPhil, and PhD in English from New York University. From 2019 to 2023 she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She was born in India, grew up in Singapore, spent a decade in New York, and now works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Rights for her debut novel, Under Water, sold in 34 territories.
Her first academic monograph Speaking Parts: Conversation, Character, and Social Worlds, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in the Fall of 2026. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The LARB, The Sewanee Review, The Point, Bookforum, The Paris Review, and Public Books, where she co-edits the Literary Fiction section.
Rights for her debut novel, Under Water, sold in 34 territories.
Her first academic monograph Speaking Parts: Conversation, Character, and Social Worlds, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in the Fall of 2026. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The LARB, The Sewanee Review, The Point, Bookforum, The Paris Review, and Public Books, where she co-edits the Literary Fiction section.
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