| Geeta Patel | ||
gpatel@wellesley.edu Pendleton Hall 21 Wellesley College Road Wellesley, MA 02481 Telephone: 781.283.3335 Office Hours: TBA Current Courses: Biography Geeta Patel is an Asociate Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley. Her book from Stanford University Press, Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry, focuses on a renegade writer, Miraji, and reads gender, sexuality, and grief in twentieth century Urdu poetic movements. Her work, circling around prose and poetry in Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi, Braj and Awadhi, includes translation and short personal pieces. Her theoretical stance, informed by queer/gender theory, postcolonial/diaspora/subaltern historiography, and crossover questions from cyborg feminism, is fashioned in her most recent manuscript Gendering the Global Nation. Her current project, on risk, insurance and pensions in South Asia opens with the early East India Company archives and closes with labor movements in contemporary Sri Lanka. Additional information about Geeta Patel is available in her Wellesley College Public Affairs profile. Publications: Books, Journals Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry (Stanford University Press: Spring 2002) GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 2:4, special issue on InQueery/InTheory/ InDeed, Sixth National Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies Conference, Co-editor with K. Kopelson (1996) Publications: Articles, Chapters and Reviews 2005 “Risky Lives,” Alternative Sexualities, edited by Brinda Bose (Calcutta: Seagull Press) 2004 “Homely Housewives Run Amok: Lesbians in Marital Fixes,” Public Culture 16.1 “Contemporary Mandalas,” Time, Space, Light, Consciousness: S.L. Parasher (Exhibition Catalogue) edited by Prajna Parasher (New Delhi: Sarnir Foundation) 2003 “Epic Diaspora Fragments,” Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality: Charting the Connections, edited by Toni Lester (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press) 2002 “Journey to Miraji’s Mountain,” Into the High Ranges, edited by Ravina Aggarwal (Delhi: Penguin India) “Between Death and Life,” Women and Performance 13.1 “Antipode’s Bound,” Antipode 34.5 “Tracking ‘Same–Sex Love’ from Antiquity to the Present in South Asia” published with George R.M.; Chatterjee I.; Gopinath G.; Naim C.M.; Vanita R. Gender & History, 14.1 “On Fire: Sexuality and its Incitements,” Queering India: Same Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society, edited by Ruth Vanita (New York, London: Routledge) 2001 “An Uncivil Woman: Ismat Chughtai,” The Annual of Urdu Studies 16.2 “Marking the Quilt: Veil, Harem/Home and Sexual Subversion within Them,” Colby Quarterly 37.1 2000 “Ghostly Appearances: Time Tales Tallied Up,” Social Text 64 “Whither Language? Where Race?—Multiculturalism in the United States,” in “U.S./Canadian writers’ perspectives on the multiculturalism debates: a round-table discussion at Harvard University/Symposium,” Canadian Literature 64 1999 “Trial by Fire: A Local Global View,” Gay Community News 25.1 “Mirror and Breath: Grandmother and I,” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 19.10 1998 “Transactions: Teaching and Reading Gender Across Borders,” Women's Studies International Quarterly 1998, 3-4 “Stories for the Millennium: Disrupting Time [the Indian way],” Gay Community News 23.4 1997 “I Speak Therefore I Am: Gender and Voice, Signature and Audience in North Indian Lyric Traditions,” Reflexivity and Voice, edited by Rosanna Hertz (Sage Press) “Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender,” College Literature 24.1 “Epic Diaspora Fragments,” Trikone 12.2 1995 “Myth and Memory: Musings from 'Incomplete Self-Portrait',” Annual of Urdu Studies 10 “Cross-Cultural Sexuality,” Radical History Review, Queer Issue 62 (Spring 1995) Forthcoming “Imagining Peace: Insurance and Fantasy,” Anthropological Theory (2006) “Redefining the Color Line: Facilitating Radical Inclusionary Scholarship in the Academy,” (with J.A. Bolden, D. Hicks) Defending Our Name: Black Women in the Academy, 1984-1994 (Carlson Publishing Inc.) Manuscripts in Progress “Gendering the Global Nation” “Insuring Selves, Assuring a Future” “Cupped in a Hand: Miraji’s Lyrical Poetry” PUBLICATIONS: Translations, Poems 2005 “The Love Song of the Clerk,” Indian Love Poems, edited by Meena Alexander (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series) 2004 “Insurance,” Shock and Awe, edited by Bregje Van Eekelen, Jennifer González, Bettina Stötzer, Anna Tsing (Santa Cruz: New Pacific Press) 1998 “Movement” and “Going, going ... ” translations of poems by Miraji, Exchanges 10 1995 “Ice Armor,” translation of short story by Susham Bedi, Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers, edited by R. Rustomji-Kerns (Boulder: Westview Press) 1992 “An Evening on the Far Side of the Wineglass,” Modern Indian Literature: An Anthology (Volume One: Surveys and Poems), K.M. George, Chief Editor (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi). Reprinted translation of poem by Miraji, Annual of Urdu Studies 8 |
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