Shilpa Sajeev

Dr Shilpa Sajeev is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, St Joseph’s University, Bengaluru. She completed her doctoral degree in the Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Lying at the interstices of performance theory and literary studies, her PhD was an exploration of contemporary theatre practices in India using the Comparative Literature method. She has presented several papers in conferences and published on Indian performance traditions and contemporary theatre, on the cultural reconfigurations of Shakespeare adaptations in Kerala, and Modernist poetry, et al.

 

Her research interests include: Modernist and Postmodern Poetry, Performance Studies, Film Studies, South Asian Studies, Graphic Narratives, and Indian Theatre Traditions. She teaches in the Department of English at St Joseph’s University, Bengaluru where she teaches Theatre Studies, English Studies, Film Studies, and World Literature.

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As one of the founding members of CiC, she hopes to create spaces where comparative literature’s attention to plurality can help bridge divides in an increasingly polarised world.