{"id":37,"date":"2020-08-06T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2021-01-20T18:02:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T18:02:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:62px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:23% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Portrait2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Portrait2.jpeg 471w, https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Portrait2-270x300.jpeg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">I am a&nbsp;Professor in the Department of English Literature, and Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Swarthmore College.&nbsp; As a scholar of Asian American studies, postcolonial theory and feminist and queer of color studies, I work across visual, ethnographic, historical and literary archives of South Asians in diaspora.&nbsp; As a curator of&nbsp; South Asian diasporic visual cultures, I regularly collaborate with artists, academics, and activists on public events nationwide.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">My books include&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/unseeing-empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Duke University Press, 2020) and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=9410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(Stanford University Press, 2012).&nbsp; My work on&nbsp;South Asian diasporic public cultures has been published in&nbsp;<em>American Quarterly<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Social Text<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Journal of Asian American Studies<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Diaspora<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas,&nbsp;<\/em>among other venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">I was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), raised in Tokyo, and educated in Japan, the United States, and India.\u00a0 I earned my Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, my M.A. in Modern Indian History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and my B.S.F.S. in Non-Western History and Diplomacy from Georgetown University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a&nbsp;Professor in the Department of English Literature, and Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Swarthmore College.&nbsp; As a scholar of Asian American studies, postcolonial theory and feminist and queer of color studies, I work across visual, ethnographic, historical and literary archives of South Asians in diaspora.&nbsp; As a curator of&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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\/37"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakirathimani.swarthmore.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}