She is the author of Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization (Stanford University Press, 2020) and co-editor (with Lotte Hoek, University of Edinburgh) of Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia: Aesthetics, Networks, and Connected Histories (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her writings have appeared across multiple peer-reviewed journals including Third Text, British Art Studies, South Asian Studies, etc. She is currently working on a second monograph on transnational conceptualizations of art and liberation across 20th-century decolonization, thinking from the locational scales of South Asia.
Before joining the University of Amsterdam in 2021, Sanjukta taught at Leiden University for more than eight years at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. At UvA, she is Assistant Professor (UD1) in Art History at the Department of Arts and Culture, and co-coordinator in ongoing and upcoming collectives at UvA like Global Trajectories of Thought and Memory and Decolonial Futures. She lectures and supervises broadly across themes of aesthetics and decolonization, global modernisms, trans-disciplinary cultural theory, postcolonial and decolonial thought.