Karin Shankar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. As a researcher, writer, and educator, her interests include contemporary South Asian performance and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer aesthetics, anti-colonial form, autotheory, and performative writing.

She is currently completing two book manuscripts. The first is titled Present Conditional: Contemporary Art and Performance in India and the second, Autotheory and Performative Writing: A Teacher’s Journal. Her scholarly and creative work has been published or is forthcoming in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, TDR, Feminist Teacher, Art India, Performance Matters, ASAP Journal, Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Journal of Embodied Research, and elsewhere.

Prior to joining the faculty at Pratt Institute, Shankar was the Andrew W. Mellon Global Postdoctoral fellow at Creative Time. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Cornell University.

CONTACT

kshankar@pratt.edu