Anantha Sudhakar, PhD

SUDHAKAR Anantha

Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies Department
Office: EP 426
Phone: 415-405-0713
Email: sudhakar@sfsu.edu

2012   Year of first appointment in Asian American Studies

Education

PhD     Rutgers University, English
MA     University of Washington, English
BA      University of Virginia, English and Women’s Studies

Research Interests

South Asian American literature and culture; diaspora and transnationalism; social justice and arts activism; gender studies and queer theory

Courses Taught

211 Contemporary Asian Americans
216 Introduction to Asian American Literature
218 Asian American Culture
540 South Asians in the United States
581 Asian American Women
822 Seminar: Asian American Literature and Arts

Honors, Awards, and Grants

2016
SFSU Presidential Award for Professional Development of Probationary Faculty
2012
Exemplary Diversity Scholar, National Center for Institutional Diversity
2011
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008
Mellon Dissertation Seminar Fellowship, Rutgers University
1998
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Current Community Involvement

Bay Area Solidarity Summer (BASS)
South Asian American Digital Archive
TIDES Editorial Collective

Current Campus Service

COES Leave with Pay Committee

Faculty Advisor (Pakistani Student Association)

Upper Division Certification Committee of BRC (U.D.D.C.)

Yellow Journal Faculty Advisor

Selected Publications

2017

Co-editor with Vanita Reddy, "Queer and Feminist Afro-Asian Formations." Special issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online. Forthcoming Fall 2017.

2016

"Asian Indian American Poetry." Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms, Vol. 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016. 

2015

with Grace J. Yoo, Mai Nhung Le, and Ellen G. Levine. "Exploring Coping Strategies Among Young Asian American Women Breast Cancer Survivors." Journal of Cancer Education (2015): 1-8.

2013

"Crafting Community: South Asian American Arts and Activism in 1990s New York City." Local/Express: Asian American Arts and Community in 90s NYC. Special issue of Asian American Literary Review. Curtis Chin, Terry Hong and Parag Khandhar, guest eds. (2013): 161-179.

2012

“Long-Distance Radicalism: In Conversation with SAMAR’s Virtual Editorial Collective.” SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection (June 2012). Online.

2011

"Muslim, Interrupted." Rev. of Chinese Women: A Novel. sx salon: A Small Axe Literary Platform, Issue 5 (June 2011): Online.http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/reviews/2011/06/30/muslim-interrupted/

 

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