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Gayatri Gopinath is an Indian author and assistant professor at NYU.

Personal Life edit

Born in New York in 1969^[1], the daughter of P. Gopinath and Bharati Nair, ^[2] Ms. Gopinath was educated at Wesleyan University and Columbia University. Her mother Bharati Nair is the granddaughter of K.P.S. Menon, first Foreign Secretary of India. Her father Padmanabha Gopinath was a career diplomat and the son of P. P. Pillai (d 1977), India's first ambassador to the United Nations. She also has a brother, Deepak.

Career edit

In 2005 Duke University Press published her book Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures.

Bibliography edit

References edit

^ Asian American Writers' Workshop (1993). Witness aloud: lesbian, gay, & bisexual Asian/Pacific American writing.
^ Gayatri Gopinath (2005). Impossible desires: queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures. Duke University Press. p. xii.

External Links edit

Category:1969 births Category:Living people

[1] Asian American Writers' Workshop (1993). Witness aloud: lesbian, gay, & bisexual Asian/Pacific American writing.

[2] Gayatri Gopinath (2005). Impossible desires: queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures. Duke University Press. p. xii.

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