Gayatri Gopinath

Gayatri Gopinath is an associate professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University.[1] 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.[2][3][4][5][6]

Education and career

Gopinath received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.[7] 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 has published numerous essays on gender, sexuality, and diasporic cultural production in journals such as GLQ, Social Text, positions, and Diaspora. Gopinath serves on the editorial board of the journal South Asian Diaspora and on the advisory board of the feminist journal Signs.[8][9]

Her first book, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, came out in 2005. In 2018, Gopinath published Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora, which "brings queer studies to bear on studies of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture." The book explores the queer diasporic art practices of interdisciplinary artists Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza.[10]

Selected works

Books

• Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora Duke University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4780-0035-8[11]
• Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Duke University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8223-8653-7 [12][13]

Articles

• Bombay, UK, Yuba City: Bhangra Music and the Engendering of Diaspora, anthologized in "Popular Culture: A Reader"[14]
• 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

1. "Faculty and Staff | CSGS Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University". www.csgsnyu.org. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
2. Kalra, Virinder S. (2008). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath (review)". Feminist Review. 88 (88): 181–183. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400393. JSTOR 30140893.
3. Garrison, John (Winter 2009). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath (review)". Cultural Critique. 71 (71): 155–157. doi:10.1353/cul.0.0035. JSTOR 25475506.
4. Brandzel, Amy; Jigna Desai (January 2008). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (review)". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 17 (1): 145–150. doi:10.1353/sex.2008.0000. JSTOR 30114374. S2CID 141679460.
5. Cohen, Lawrence (Nov 2006). "Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath (review)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 65 (4): 844–845. doi:10.1017/S0021911806001884. 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....
6. 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...
7. Faculty profile, accessed 2013-03-15
8. "South Asian Diaspora". www.tandfonline.com. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
9. "Masthead". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 2012-08-22. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
10. "Unruly Visions". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
11. "Unruly Visions". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
12. 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. S2CID 143568437. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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