Susan Seizer

Major Influences on Professional Life:

Professors Bernard S. Cohn, A.K. Ramanujan, Jean Comaroff

Subfields of Interest within Anthropology:

Humor, Stigma, Theater, South Asia, Gender, Linguistic Anthropology, Visual Anthropology

Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:

Stigmatized subcultures, artistic subcultures

Regions of specialization and Languages:

South India, Tamil

Major Publications:

Articles in American Anthropologist and Public Culture

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: an ethnography of Special Drama artists in South India. Duke U Press, April 2005.

Roadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 15, No. 2, May 2000, pp. 217-259.

Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance on the Tamil Popular Stage. American Ethnologist, 24:1, Feb 1997, pp. 62-90.

Playing the Field. Review Essay in Transition: An International Review. Issue 71, V6N3: 100-113, Fall 1996. Review of Taboo: sex, identity and erotic subjectivity in anthropological fieldwork, Don Kulick and Margaret Wilson, eds.

Paradoxes of Visibility in the Field: Rites of Queer Passage in Anthropology. Public Culture, Vol. 8 No. 1, Fall 1995, pp. 73-100.

Other Relevant Information:

Prior professional life: the performance art community in NYC