Daniel Luther

J. Daniel Luther works on the intersections of culture and media studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory with a focus on South Asian culture, film and media. Since 2016 they have served a global community of artists, activists, and academics as the co-founder of ‘Queer’ Asia. Their first monograph Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only (2023) was published with Palgrave Macmillan. They recently co-edited a special issue Queer Asia as Method (2025) and are the co-editor of Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender (2019). They have also published in peer-reviewed journals such as South Asian Popular Culture and Kohl a journal for Body and Gender Research. They are currently the Associate Programme Director of the Scholar Programme at the Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford, where they have run a leadership and development programme for Rhodes Scholars since 2021. They also work as an Associate Consultant at Delta, a leadership and inclusion consultancy.