Gayatri Gopinath
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.[1][2][3][4][5]
Education and career
Gopinath received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.[6] 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.
Selected works
Books
- Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-8653-7 [7][8]
Articles
- Bombay, UK, Yuba City: Bhangra Music and the Engendering of Diaspora, anthologized in "Popular Culture: A Reader"[9]
- 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
- ↑ Kalra, Virinder S. (2008). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath (review)". Feminist Review. Palgrave Macmillan Journals. 88: 181–183. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400393. JSTOR 30140893.
- ↑ Garrison, John (Winter 2009). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath (review)". Cultural Critique. University of Minnesota Press. 71: 155–157. doi:10.1353/cul.0.0035. JSTOR 25475506.
- ↑ Brandzel, Amy; Jigna Desai (January 2008). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (review)". Journal of the History of Sexuality. University of Texas Press. 17 (1): 145–150. doi:10.1353/sex.2008.0000. JSTOR 30114374.
- ↑ Cohen, Lawrence (Nov 2006). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath (review)". The Journal of Asian Studies. Association for Asian Studies. 65 (4): 844–845. JSTOR 25076158.
In Impossible Desires, Gayatri Gopinath achieves something quite different, and this smart and well-written book signals a sea change in the field. It draws upon new writing across disciplines rethinking the work of sexual politics in constituting translocal South Asian public cultures....
- ↑ Lukose, Ritty A. (2007). "The Difference that Diaspora Makes: Thinking through the Anthropology of Immigrant Education in the United States". Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 38 (4): 405–418. doi:10.1525/aeq.2007.38.4.405. ISSN 0161-7761.
Gayatri Gopinath's Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Culture is another good example of an antiessentialist diasporic studies perspective...
- ↑ Faculty profile, accessed 2013-03-15
- ↑ Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar (2006). "Enter the Queer Female Diasporic Subject". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 12 (4): 655–656. doi:10.1215/10642684-2006-011.
Gayatri Gopinath's book...is a welcome consideration of making the impossible possible, particularly those queer desires of same-sex longing and affection that circulate amid diasporic South Asian public cultures but that are rarely made visible as meaningful and engaging.
- ↑ Dasgupta, Romit (November 2006). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures". Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context (14).
In Impossible Desires Gopinath makes a significant contribution to this interrogation of fixed understandings of non-heterosexual sexualities.
- ↑ Guins, Raiford; Cruz, Omayra Zaragoza (2005-05-01). Popular Culture: A Reader. SAGE. pp. 294–. ISBN 978-0-7619-7472-7. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
External links
- Official website
- Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, Duke University Press
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