Dr. Das focuses on transnational analysis of human bodies, health, identity, technology, and ecology
across the borders of cultures, disciplines and geography. Dr. Das earned a PhD (University of
Calcutta) in studying spatio-temporal body politics and health in the life narratives of Aboriginal
and settler women in Australia. Before joining University of Minnesota Duluth in 2018, she served as Assistant Professor at Delhi University (2012-14) and worked on her postdoctoral research project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2014-17). She was also a lecturer of Women’s studies at Northern
Arizona University (2017-18).
Dr. Das is a body theorist whose transdisciplinary research explores theories of human bodies, health and wellness based on real life narratives, ethnography, field research, literature, art, religious myths, and performances to initiate an ethical and respectful understanding of human bodies and contributes toward corporeal justice in healthcare system. Dr. Das practices multidisciplinary methodologies: from traditional critical analysis of textual and visual narratives, oral history, ethnographical field research, to non-traditional autobiographical story-telling, experiential and applied learning, and creative participation. Her area of research includes Body, Sexuality and Health studies, Social and Structural Determinants of Health, Obstetric and Perinatal Health and Trauma, Artificial Intelligence and Health, Ecology, Sexuality and Health Humanities,,Transnationalism, Migration, and Diasporic Sexuality and politics of knowledge formation. Dr. Das has delivered various invited lectures, plenary and keynote addresses on body, sexuality and health in various countries across the globe including Australia, Canada, USA, Taiwan, UAE. Writing across transdisciplinary fields, her scholarship spans several geographical and cultural boundaries and her articles have been published in flagship peer-reviewed journals including Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (Cambridge University Press), Feminist Studies (John Hopkins University Press), Hecate (Queensland Univ Press), Meridians: Feminism, Race and Transnationalism (Duke University Press), Feminist Formations (John Hopkins Univ Press), South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Taylor and Francis) among others. Dr. Das is currently the editor- in chief of Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine and is one of the Series Editors of Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing.