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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 M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and 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, women's movements, and cultural history. She is the editor of Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women,Culture, and Nation a volume of translations, and has published a book titled Bodies that Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asia with Syracuse University Press (2011) which is a comparative study of anti-state poetry from India and Pakistan during key moments of religious revitalization in the twentieth century.