Dr. Sailaja Krishnamurti is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Katarokwi (Kingston, Ontario), Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory. Her work takes a critical race feminist approach to religion and representation in the South Asian diaspora and in transnational cultures. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought and a graduate diploma in Asian Studies (York, 2008), as well as an MA in English Literature and Social and Political Thought (UVic, 2000).
Dr. Krishnamurti has published articles and book chapters reflecting her interdisciplinary research on topics ranging from South Asian religions and migration history in Canada to feminist graphic novels in India. She is co-editor of two collections of essays, Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion and Diaspora (MQUP, 2021), and Organizing the Transnational: Labour, Politics, and Social Change (UBC Press, 2007).
As a scholar-activist engaged in labour organizing, anti-racist, and feminist work inside and outside academia, Dr. Krishnamurti works in a number of capacities. She is a founding member of the AAR seminar in Intersectional Hindu Studies; and co-creator of the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (@Auntylectuals).
Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, PhD 