Karin Shankar

Karin Shankar 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 other creative and scholarly work has been published or is forthcoming in Women & Performance, TDR, Feminist Teacher, Art India, Performance Matters, ASAP Journal, Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, and elsewhere.

Prior to joining the faculty in the Humanities and Media Studies program at Pratt, 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.

Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, Performance Studies

M.P.A. Cornell University

B.A. Colby College