I am an anthropologist of performance cultures and creative industries. My work critically examines entangled artworlds of South Asia and Asian diaspora from the intersections of marginality, precarity and resistance. 

I write interdisciplinarily on lives and experiences of communities living in the northeastern regions of India, with broad interest in performance and visual cultures, transregional and transnational exchanges in art, and the slow transformation of borderlands in conflict. My published and ongoing writings engage with social, political, and affective dimensions of performance in everyday life in contemporary and colonial South Asia. 

I obtained my PhD from King's College London (India Institute, School of Global Affairs) on a scholarship from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. I have read social anthropology from School of Oriental and African Studies (London), on a Felix Scholarship, and theatre and performance studies from School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). 

I have been a Graduate Anthropology Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (Washington DC), Research Fellow with TaPRA-Showtown Collections (Blackpool, UK), a Research Associate with the Museum of Colour (London), an Early Career Fellow with Women's History Network (UK), and a British Academy grantee - working on projects through archival, ethnographic and Research-as-Practice methodologies.

Until recently, I worked at the Bodleian Libraries, Collection & Resource Description, University of Oxford.

Currently I am an External Collaborator with ERC funded MANTRAMS and a Community Action Researcher with the History of Science Museum, Oxford. 

Email:  debanjali.biswas@gmail.com

Twitter: @DilebJaan