Sukanya Chakrabarti, Ph.D., is an artist-scholar and Associate Professor at the Department of Film and Theatre, San Jose State University. She received her doctoral degree in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University; and previously worked at Florida State University and San Francisco State University.

Dr. Chakrabarti's works have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Indian Theatre Journal; Asian Theatre Journal; Modern Drama; Urban Geography; Ecumenica: Performance and Religion; and Emergency Index. She published a chapter, ‘“Go back to India if you hate my people so much:” Consequences of Troubling and Reimagining the “Canon” in American Academia’ in Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US, published by Routledge. She is the author of a research monograph, In-Between Worlds: Performing [As] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Routledge, UK).

As an artist, she has worked as a playwright, director, dramaturg, and performer for South Asian theater companies in the Bay Area, Stanford University, Florida State University, and San Francisco State University. She has also collaborated with dance and movement artists, musicians and spoken-word artists in India and the US, for her devised and experimental performance projects. She is currently working as a Cultural Dramaturg for an Off-Broadway performance, Public Obscenities, written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, produced by Soho Repertory Theatre in New York. More details about her project can be found on her website: www.sukanyac.com

Dr. Chakrabarti’s performance practice, scholarship and teaching lie in the intersection of postcolonial studies, globalization studies, and urban studies, with a focus on South Asian theatre and performance studies, transcultural theatre and performance, experimental devised performances and community-based performance-making.