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Name
  
Gayatri Gopinath

Education
  
Columbia University

Books
  
Impossible desires


Gayatri Gopinath Gayatri Gopinath


"Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora"


Gayatri Gopinath is an associate professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of Asian/Pacific/American Studies at New York University. Gopinath is perhaps best known for her book Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, which received article-length reviews in a number of journals.

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Education and career

Gopinath received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She did postdoctoral studies at UC San Diego. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, she was a professor of Women's Studies at UC Davis.

Gopinath serves on the editorial board of the journal South Asian Diaspora and on the advisory board of the feminist journal Signs.

Books

  • Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-8653-7

    • Articles

  • Bombay, UK, Yuba City: Bhangra Music and the Engendering of Diaspora, anthologized in "Popular Culture: A Reader"
  • Nostalgia, desire, diaspora: South Asian sexualities in motion. Positions 5, no. 2 (1997): 467–489.
  • Bollywood Spectacles: Queer Diasporic Critique In The Aftermath Of 9/11 Social Text 84/85 (2005): 157-169.
  • Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities In Popular Indian Cinema. Journal Of Homosexuality 39.3/4 (2000): 283-297.

    • Book Chapters

  • Foreword: Queer Diasporic Interventions. Textual Practice 25.4 (2011): 635-638.

    • Dissertation

  • Queer Diasporas: Gender, Sexuality And Migration In Contemporary South Asian Literature And Cultural Production (Ismat Chughtai, Shyam Selvadurai, Shani Mootoo, India)." Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: Humanities & Social Sciences 59.07 (1999):

    • References

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