Shefali Banerji, BA (Hons) M.A.

Winter term 2024

120691 PS Proseminar Cultural and Media Studies - Performing Identity, Performing Poetry: Spoken Word in the UK

Banerji, S. (2025). Staging Intermediality and Queerness in Jasmine Gardosi’s Dancing to Music You Hate. Open Library of Humanities, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.19713

Banerji, S. (2025). Digital Spoken Word Theatre in the UK: Navigating the Theatre Screen with Rose Condo’s The Geography of Me. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 13(1), 108-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2025-2007

Sackl, C., & Banerji, S. (Accepted/In press). Anglophone Youth Performance Poetry in Europe. In J. Mooney, C. Rhodes, K. O'Sullivan, G. Duckels, & P. Hunt (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Young Adult Literature Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Banerji, S. (2024). Spoken Word Theatre: Poetry in the Cross-Art Laboratory (Podcast episode). Radio show https://poetryoffthepage.net/podcast/spoken-word-theatre-poetry-in-the-cross-art-laboratory/

Shefali Banerji
PhD Researcher, ERC project "Poetry Off the Page"

Qualifications

English, M.A., University of Calcutta

2016 → 2018

Award Date: 13 Aug 2018

English Literature, B.A. Honours, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

2013 → 2016

Award Date: 17 Jan 2017

English, Research, The Question of Race in the Short Fiction of Jean Rhys, Trinity College Dublin

2021 → 2022

Employment

Academic third-party funded project staff

Department of English and American Studies

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

27 Jun 2022 → present

External lecturer

Department of English and American Studies

University of Vienna

Wien, Austria

1 Oct 2024 → 28 Feb 2025

Coaffiliations

Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London

Associate PhD student (2023-2024)

Research interests

spoken word theatre in the UK, poetry performance, contemporary Anglophone poetries, contemporary British theatre, postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, intermediality

By Diaspora, Off the Page: Migration, Gender, Poetry Performance in the UK

Shefali Banerji (Speaker)

4 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public