Julie Graves Krishnaswami

Reading like a (woman) lawyer.

Bio

Julie Graves Krishnaswami (b. 1976) has a BA from Reed College, a JD from CUNY School of Law, and an MLIS from Pratt Institute. She has published articles on legal research pedagogy and regulatory research. Currently, she is the Head of Research Instruction at Yale Law School where her Advanced Legal Research courses are regularly oversubscribed. She recently completed an MFA (Visual Arts) at Vermont College of Fine Arts.  

“Bodies are shaped, contorted, and deformed by labor. My work focuses on the conditions of labor in everyday life and how those conditions impact the body. By Interrogating my experiences as a woman, mother, lawyer, academic librarian, and medical patient with a chronic illness known, I aim to unpack norms around work, and how labor structures physical time, expectations, habits, and routines.“