Her doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley was a comparative study of women's anti-state poetry from India and Pakistan during key moments of religious revitalization in the twentieth century. She is the editor of Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Nation, and Culture, a volume of translations and her book manuscript titled Bodies that Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry is forthcoming with Syracuse University Press' series in Gender and Globalization. Email: aanita@ufl.edu