Dr Shehnaz Suterwalla
- Senior Tutor (Research)
- Arts & Humanities MFA
Shehnaz is a writer and critic; she also curates and convenes public events at the Royal College of Art on the cultural and political stakes of artistic practice today.
Shehnaz is the Academic Lead for the School of Arts & Humanities’s School Unit: The Urgency of the Arts. The unit explores how the arts play a vital and critical role in contemporary cultural, social, political and economic debates. She also runs the MFA lecture series with leading artists, writers, thinkers and curators shaping contemporary art and culture.
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Shehnaz’s current research explores the intersections of contemporary art and creative/literary writing, with a particular focus on decolonial aesthetics and experimental forms of critical writing beyond the conventions of criticism and theory. Shehnaz's research draws from a range of critical and historical studies, material and visual culture studies and contemporary fiction. Shehnaz is the co-editor of a new journal, Draught, made at the School of the Arts & Humanities and launching in October 2025.
