Gayatri Gopinath
FAS Social and Cultural Analysis
gayatri.gopinath@nyu.edu
Wih research interests that include queer studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory, Gayatri Gopinath joins the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis as an Associate Professor. She earned her B.A. in Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Columbia University (1994, 1998).
Previously, she taught at the University of California -Davis. Dr. Gopinath is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005), as well as articles on gender, sexuality and South Asian diasporic culture in journals such as GLQ, Social Text, Positions, and Diaspora. Her book chapters include: "Local Sites, Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire," in Queer Globalizations: Citizenship, Sexualities and the Afterlife of Colonialism, edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malave and Martin Manalansan (NYU Press, 2002) and "Homo-Economics: Queer Sexualities in a Transnational Frame" in Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity, edited by Rosemary M. George (Westview Press, 1998).