Anita Anantharam
Assistant Professor
Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Office
203 Ustler Hall,
PO Box 117352,
Gainesville, FL 32611
email: aanita@ufl.edu
phone: 352.273.0383
Spring 2008 Office Hours
- Wednesdays
8:30-10:30am and by appointment
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 revitalization 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.
