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Natasha Vashisht serves as a Sessional Lecturer II in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, teaching diverse courses including African and Caribbean Theatre, Magical Realism, Drama of the Global South, Medieval Drama, World Drama, Caribbean Literature, and specialized seminars on Revolutionary Humour in Postcolonial Drama. Her academic profile centers on postcolonial and decolonial frameworks with a geographic focus on the Global South, emphasizing resistance narratives across theatrical and literary traditions.
Her research spans Literature of the Global South, Postcolonial drama, subaltern studies, and decolonial methodologies, with concentrated expertise in African, Caribbean, and Latin American drama. She investigates theatres of resistance in conflict zones, humor as political subversion, and transnational identity formation in diasporic contexts. This interdisciplinary approach connects historical literary analysis with contemporary sociopolitical critique, particularly examining how marginalized communities weaponize performance and narrative against oppressive structures.
Vashisht's publication trajectory reveals consistent scholarly engagement with resistance aesthetics since 2002. Her recent work (2021-2023) analyzes power deconstruction in African-Caribbean theatre, Gandhian social justice models, and diasporic Indian English writing documentation. Earlier scholarship explores political farce in Dario Fo's works, Shakespearean adaptations across global contexts, and psychological dimensions in dystopian literature. Collectively, her research demonstrates a methodological bridge between classical textual analysis and urgent political discourse, with recurring motifs of subversion, identity negotiation, and cultural resilience emerging across temporal and geographic boundaries.
