CREATIVE

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Stargazing (Nominated for Best of the Net) – MEARI Magazine

Sorority Magazine Interview – The Sorority

National Poetry Month Interview – Kitchen Table Quarterly

Initiations – Stone Circle Review

Entrance Bell – Perilla Zine

Fine Print – Poetry Wales

Blood-thin light, this night – Kitchen Table Quarterly

Hi – Open Minds Quarterly

2 poems (Walk a Mile, Home) – The Bombay Review

Peeling Dead Sores – Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing

Safe and Sound(less) – Rigorous

Home at Last – Cologne of Heritage: Incredible Bengal

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

Poetic Intuition Festival 2025 by Queer Writers Circle Vienna and HintWien

Poetry Planet by Poetry Slam’md at Kultursommer Wien 2025

Poetry Evening by Poetry Society Vienna at Cafe 7Stern

International Feature at Poetry Slamm’d January 2025 Edition

Poetic Intuition Festival 2024 by Queer Writers Circle Vienna and HintWien

Feministival – 10 Year Anniversary by The Sorority

What Feminism Sounds Like by Poetry Slam’md at Kultursommer Wien 2024

‘A People’s Art is the Genesis of Their Freedom’ Poetry Reading by Poetry For The Political Imagination Reading Group at Central European University Vienna 

Voices & Visions Live by NewCulture Vienna

Poetry Slam Showcase at 16 Days Against Violence Against Women 2023 Campaign by City of Linz Women’s Office

Poetic Intuition Festival 2023 by Queer Writers Circle Vienna and HintWien

Spoken Word Abend by Vienna Literature Festival

Down the Street! (DTS) Fashion Event by Slumburg

Wandapanda and Tiger Kick Off Event by Perilla Zine

Bring Your Best Story Slam by Kommune Kolkata

Lunachixx 2nd Edition at TopCat CCU

The Paper Kites Project by Almost Art

National Poetry Festival at New Town Book Fair Kolkata

OTHERS

Episode 4: Shefali Banerji on Poetry and the Profession They Made Out of It on New Culture Podcast (Voices & Visions Series)

ACADEMIC

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 “Spoken Word Poetry and the Wonder of the Archive.” Poetry Off the Page (Blog).

“Staging Intermediality and Queerness in Jasmine Gardosi’s Dancing to Music You Hate.” Open Library of Humanities, vol. 11, no. 1.  

“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, vol. 13, no. 1.

OTHERS

“Episode 1: Spoken Word Theatre: Poetry in the Cross-Art Laboratory.” Poetry Off the Page (Podcast).

FORTHCOMING

Poetry off the Page: International Advances in Poetry Performance Research. Open Library of Humanities Journal special issue. Co-edited with Julia Lajta-Novak and Rachel Bolle-Debessay. (Forthcoming 2026)

Exit Page: The Gen X-Y-Z of Global Spoken Word Poetry. Post45 Contemporaries cluster. Co-edited with Claudia Sackl. (Forthcoming 2026)

“Spoken Word Theatre and its DIY Potential: Rose Condo’s The Empathy Experiment and In the Works’ The 900 Club.” Contemporary British Poetry Performance in Context – The Event of Poetry, Julia Lajta-Novak, et al. Palgrave Macmillan. (Forthcoming 2026)

“Anglophone Youth Performance Poetry in Europe.” With Claudia Sackl. The Routledge Companion to Young Adult Literature, ed. Jennifer Mooney, et al. (Forthcoming 2026)

SELECTED TEACHING

November 2025 (Guest Lecture): Poetry is not a luxury… Poetry (is) for the People: A poetic exercise to engage otherwise. Proseminar: Black Atlantic Thinkers – Literature and the Struggle for New Worldviews, University of Vienna

November 2025 (Guest Lecture): Poetry Performance Research and its Methodologies: Navigating Archives. Popular Verse: Poesie als ästhetische und gesellschaftliche Praxis, University of Zurich

October 2025 (Guest Lecture): Spoken Word Theatre and its Decolonial Potential. Foundational Course: Theorizing Culture and Politics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

June 2025 (Public Lecture): By Diaspora, Off the Page: Migration, Gender, Poetry Performance in the UK. Lecture Series: Art – Research – Gender – Flight, Migration, and Gender Dynamics, die Angewandte Vienna               

May 2025 (Guest Lecture): On Poetry Performance. Seminar: Poetry as Contamination, die Angewandte Vienna

Winter Term 2024 (Lecturer): Performing Identity, Performing Poetry: Spoken Word in the UK. Cultural and Media Studies Proseminar, University of Vienna

December 2024 (Guest Lecture): Humour in Spoken Word Poetry. VK Advanced Course: Poetry Off the Page, University of Vienna

December 2023 (Guest Lecture): The Unhomely in Jean Rhys. Lecture Series: The Politics of Home, University of Vienna

November 2023 (Guest Lecture): Queer Spoken Word Poetry. AR – MA Course: Poetry Off the Page, University of Vienna