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Geeta Patel
Geeta Patel is Associate Professor of Studies in Women and Gender and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages
and Cultures. Her book from Stanford University Press, Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: Gender,
Colonialism and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry, reads a renegade writer through nationalism, 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 translation theory from South Asian studies, sexuality studies and gender theory, postcolonial, diaspora and
subaltern historiography, and crossover questions from the history of science, is fashioned in her most recent
manuscript Gendering the Global Nation. Her current project, Financing Selves, 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.
Address:
Studies in Women and Gender
227 Minor Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va 22904
ghp5v@virginia.edu
434-924-3452
Fax: 434-924-6969
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