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Folklore, Anthropology
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Shakthi Nataraj received her PhD from the Anthropology program at UC Berkeley as well as the MA in Folklore. She examines narratives about sexual identity in Tamil Nadu, India, as they circulate between LGBT rights activists, lawmakers, journalists and novelists. She is especially interested in how older genres of narrative are blended with contemporary ones, producing new visions of sexual identity and politics. Before coming to Berkeley, Shakthi worked with two gender and sexuality rights NGOs in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She is currently a lecturer at Lancaster University.
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