Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies Department, San Franscico State University

Dr. Anantha Sudhakar is Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies Department at San Franscico State University. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Sudhakar’s research interests are in South Asian American literature and culture; diaspora and transnationalism; social justice and arts activism; and, gender studies and queer theory. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, Conditional Futures; Arts Activism and the Rise of a New South Asian American Left. She is also co-editing, with Vanita Reddy, a special issue of the peer-reviewed online journal, Scholar & Feminist Online. The issue, “Afro-Asian Feminist and Queer Formations” is scheduled for publication in Fall 2017. Dr. Sudhakar received her Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University.