ACADEMIC WRITING
BOOKS
Present Conditional: Contemporary Art and Performance in India (in preparation)
Autotheory and Performative Writing: A Teacher’s Journal (in preparation)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
(Forthcoming 2025) Shankar, Karin. “‘Every Relation is a Manipulation of Breath’: Outside-In Embodied Practice at the Adishakti Theater Laboratory in Puducherry, India.” Performance Research, 29.3.
(Forthcoming 2024) Shankar, Karin et al. “Another Delicious Story.” Journal of Embodied Research, 7.2
2024. Shankar, Karin. Iteratio: On Teaching Art and Design, “Performance Studies Methodologies in an Art School: Interweaving Body, Space, Text” Issue 3.
2024. Shankar, Karin. The Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies. “Post-Plantation Aesthetics: An Interview with Priyageetha Dia,” 4.1: 53-62.
2023. Shankar, Karin. “Neoliberalism on Trial in Amar Kanwar’s The Sovereign Forest” in PAJ: Journal of Performance and Art, 135: 1-13.
2023. Shankar, Karin and Julia Steinmetz. “Introduction: The Stuff of Teaching,” in “The Syllabus is the Thing: Materialities of the Performance Studies Classroom.” In Karin Shankar and Julia Steinmetz, eds., special issue of Performance Matters 8.2:1-5.
2023. Shankar, Karin and Julia Steinmetz. “The Studio in the Seminar: Performing Theory.” In “The Syllabus is the Thing: Materialities of the Performance Studies Classroom,” Karin Shankar and Julia Steinmetz, eds., special issue of Performance Matters 8.2:42-9.
2022. Shankar, Karin. “Immanent Urbanism in Jagannath Panda’s Art.” ASAP/Journal, Volume 7.1: 145-170.
2022. Shankar, Karin. “Khayal: Notes on Being-with.” Performance and Philosophy, 7.2: 141-44.
2022. Shankar, Karin et al. “On Making Autotheory.” Iteratio: On Teaching Art and Design, Issue 2: 62-71.
2019. Shankar, Karin. “Teaching Postcoloniality and Performance.” Feminist Teacher. Vol 28:2-3, 105-123.
2019. Shankar, Karin. “Tracing minor gesture in Maya Krishna Rao’s kathakali-influenced performance.” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 29.2 (2019): 125-145.
JOURNAL ISSUES AND EDITED VOLUMES
2023 “The Syllabus is the Thing: Materialities of the Performance Studies Classroom,” A special issue of Performance Matters, Karin Shankar and Julia Steinmetz, eds., special issue of Performance Matters 8.2.
2015 P[art]icipatory Urbanisms Vol I: A Critical Anthology, co-edited with Kirsten Larson, Berkeley: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and UC Berkeley Urban Humanities Initiative.
2015 P[art]icipatory Urbanisms Vol II: Between New Delhi and São Paolo, A Compendium of Interviews with Urban Practitioners, co-edited with Kirsten Larson, Berkeley: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and UC Berkeley Urban Humanities Initiative.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2025 (Forthcoming) Shankar, Karin, “Translating Silence: Reading Hindi’s New Poetry with Clarice Lispector,” in Unending Translation: Creative Critical Experiments in Translation and Life Writing, eds. Lily Robert-Foley and Delphine Grass, UCL Press
REVIEWS
(In preparation for Performance Matters journal). Omnibus review of three books by Simon O’Sullivan, From Magic and Myth Work to Care and Repair (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), The Ancient Device (Triarchy Press, 2024), and On Theory-fiction and Other Genres (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
(In preparation for Contemporary South Asia journal). Review of Anand, S. and Venkat Raman Singh Shyam’s Ganja-Mahua Chronicles. New Delhi: Navayana, 2019.
2023. Review of Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India by Jisha Menon. In Performance Research 27.6-7: 264-265,
2018. Review of Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared by Trinh T. Minh-ha. In TDR: The Drama Review 62:4 (T240).
2013. “Cosmopolitics and Incense: Notes on the Kochi-Muziris Biennale” ArtSlant.
2013. “Philomela’s Voice: A Review of Hetal Chudasama’s Solo Show” ARTIndia Magazine.
2013. “Dual Enquiry: A Review of Luigi Anastasio’s and Prabhavati Meppayil’s Everything/Nothing” ARTIndia Magazine.