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Anita Anantharam
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Key Research Areas
Transnational Feminism, Postcolonial Theory, Hindi and Urdu language and literature, and Marxist-feminist analyses of literaryand visual cultures of the South Asian Diaspora.
Biography
Anita Anantharam joined the University of Florida's Center for
Women's Studies and Gender Research as Assistant Professor in 2006.
Professor Anantharam did her undergraduate work in Women's Studies at
Columbia University, her MA at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison and received her Ph.D. in South and Southeast
Asian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and
Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. Her
research interests are in the fields of nationalism and feminism
in South Asia and her current manuscript is a comparative study of
anti-state poetry from India and Pakistan during key moments of
religious revitilization in the twentieth century. She is the
editor of Mahadevi Varma: Essays on Women,Culture, and Society, a
volume of translations, and is currently working on a book titled
Illuminating Feminism: Religion, Nation, and Poetry in South
Asia.
