Sheetala Bhat

Sheetala Bhat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at York University, specializing in South Asian theatre, Indigenous theatre in Canada, and diasporic performance. Her research examines cultural performances of love as anti-colonial resistance and explores intersections between settler colonialism and Hindu nationalism.

Her publications focus on:

• Decolonial worldmaking through theatre
• Indigenous performance practices
• Postcolonial adaptations of epics
• Gender and caste representation in Indian theatre