{"id":136,"date":"2020-10-20T22:08:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2020-11-25T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:50:57","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=136","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:54px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignfull columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-03-at-5.23.44-PM-688x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"320\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?attachment_id=320\" 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https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-03-at-5.20.35-PM-2-189x300.png 189w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-03-at-5.20.35-PM-2.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"330\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?attachment_id=330\" class=\"wp-image-330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-1013x1536.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-1350x2048.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-1200x1820.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/36195-1-scaled.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">As an interdisciplinary scholar of Asian American studies, postcolonial studies and feminist and queer of color studies, I work across multiple forms of public culture to examine how South Asian American identities and communities are formed, embodied, and lived.&nbsp;Most recently, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/unseeing-empire\" target=\"_blank\">my work<\/a> has focused on the dynamic relationship between visual representations of race, and the formation of diasporic identity and community.&nbsp;I ask the following questions: in what forms and styles do racialized immigrants make themselves&nbsp;visible in visual culture?&nbsp;When and how do we claim to see ourselves in the image?&nbsp;Why do visual representations of diaspora so often leave us wanting for more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">As a scholar, I work across multiple archives, including U.S. settler colonial, British imperial, Indian national and private collections of photography.&nbsp;As a trained curator and ethnographer, I work in museums and gallery spaces across North America and in South Asia to understand how viewers interact with representations of diasporic visual culture, and how their lived experiences in these spaces produce new narratives of identity and community.&nbsp;As a writer, I bring myself close to the objects, people, and spaces that I write about, and I consider my work to emerge out of this collective engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">I&#8217;ve recently published essays on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=326\" target=\"_blank\">South Asian American visual culture and representation<\/a>, and on the centrality of diaspora to readings of contemporary Asian American literature. My work on the artists Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Gauri Gill, Seher Shah, and Rina Banerjee has been published in journals including <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=332\" target=\"_blank\">Social Text<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=333\" target=\"_blank\">American Quarterly<\/a>,  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=347\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Asian American Studies<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=334\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures in the Americas<\/a>.&nbsp;I&#8217;ve also written on topics as varied as the Miss India USA beauty pageant; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=354\" target=\"_blank\">Jhumpa Lahiri&#8217;s novel and Mira Nair&#8217;s film The Namesake<\/a>; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=355\" target=\"_blank\">Pravasi Bharatiya Divas<\/a>; and the relation between dress and racial identity in South Asian diasporas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an interdisciplinary scholar of Asian American studies, postcolonial studies and feminist and queer of color studies, I work across multiple forms of public culture to examine how South Asian American identities and communities are formed, embodied, and lived.&nbsp;Most recently, my work has focused on the dynamic relationship between visual representations of race, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}