Joseph K. Chadwick Distinguished Lecture Series: Gayatri Gopinath

"Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Ligy Pullappally’s The Journey."

Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California at Davis. She received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke, 2005). Her work on sexuality, gender, and South Asian diasporic literature, film, and popular music has appeared in the journals GLQ, Positions, and Diaspora, as well as in the anthologies Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader, eds. Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur (Blackwell, 2003), Queer Globalizations: Citizenship, Sexualities, and the Afterlife of Colonialism, eds. Arnaldo Cruz Malave and Martin Manalansan (NYU Press, 2002), and Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity, ed. Rosemary M. George (Westview Press, 1998).

Professor Gopinath will also lead a seminar on March 23, 2007 at 1:30 in Kuykendall Hall 410; readings will be available ahead of time.

For more information, contact the Department of English (956-3085).

Co-sponsored by UHM Women's Studies and the Center for South Asian Studies

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Department of English, Manoa

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