Natasha Bissonauth
Assistant Professor
- She/They
- nbissonauth@ecuad.ca
Education:
Bio
Dr. Natasha Bissonauth has taught for the Visual Art and Art History department at York University in Toronto and was Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She is Reviews Editor for the peer-reviewed journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.
Research Interests
Natasha’s research centres queer aesthetics and archival logics across South Asia and Indian Ocean diasporas. She is currently working on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded book project that investigates collage and assemblage as a way to suture and severe across histories of immigration and indenture in more material ways. Threading ‘areas’ like South Asia, the Caribbean, and Mauritius, Black and brown seams within the art historical discipline emerge. Natasha’s publications include “Sunil Gupta’s Sun City: An Exercise in Camping Orientalism” (Art Journal), “The Dissent of Play: Lotahs in the Museum” (South Asia) and “Surrealist Returns” (Chitra Ganesh). Their other articles examine the fabular aesthetics of gender and indenture in Kama La Mackerel’s poetry and Renluka Maharaj’s visual practice, and their exhibition catalogue essays discuss the artistic practices of Zanele Muholi and Meera Sethi. Natasha has contributed an exhibition essay for Divya Mehra, winner of the 2022 Sobey Art Award, and their artist interviews, exhibition reviews and book reviews have appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Art India, C Magazine and Women + Performance.