Visual Art & Art History
Natasha Bissonauth
she/they
Assistant Professor
EDUCATION
Ph.D Art History - Cornell UniversityAREAS OF EXPERTISE
Contemporary Art and Visual CulturesContemporary Global Art
Diaspora
South Asia
Indenture
Art Theory and Aesthetics
Queer Theory
Feminist Studies
Affect Theory
BIOGRAPHY
Natasha Bissonauth’s research focuses on contemporary artists of colour, queer and feminist art-making situated in contemporary global visual cultures, with an emphasis on South Asian and South Asian transnational circuits of art. Prior to joining the department, she was Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster (OH) in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and has held teaching positions at Haverford College (PA), and Ithaca College (NY). Select artist interviews, exhibition reviews, and book reviews include Art Asia Pacific, Art India, C Magazine, and Women + Performance. Peer-reviewed articles include “Zanele Muholi’s Affective Appeal to Act” (Photography & Culture, 2014) and “Sunil Gupta’s Sun City: An Exercise in Camping Orientalism” (Art Journal; 2019). Recent publication includes a book chapter on how Chitra Ganesh’s speculative aesthetic intervenes in museum display (2020). She also published an article in South Asia journal on the artwork of Sa’dia Rehman titled, “The Dissent of Play: Lotahs in the Museum,” where Bissonauth lays out her ideas on play as a form of aesthetic dissent. New research interests include examining the role of the speculative in the study of indenture studies.
Visual Art & Art History
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