Gayatri Gopinath

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Name Gayatri Gopinath Education Columbia University		Books Impossible desires

"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.

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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