Research interests include diaspora and cultural studies, discourses of empire and nation, and ethnic/racial identity formation. She is the author of "Where is West Asia in Asian America?", ‘Asia’ and the Politics of Space in Asian America,” (Social Text 86; Spring 2006), "Reading with Edward Said: Representation and Other Disquieting Gestures," (Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 11, nos. 1-2; 2004), and "Disrupting Asian America: South Asian American Histories as Strategic Sites of Narration," in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 31, no. 3). Dr. Menon is currently working on an ethnographic study of Indians who migrated to Borneo in the 1940s-60s to work for Shell Petroleum Company.

Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.