Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar
Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar (they/she) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Their PhD, funded by the AHRC, was titled: ‘Narrating the Museum: Contestations, Reclamations, and Refusals in Contemporary Indigenous Literature and Film’, and awarded in 2024. Shelley’s interests include Fourth Cinema, sustenance cultures and museum studies and their current research examines food sovereignty and sustenance cultures in Choctaw and Irish contexts as part of the AHRC-funded 'Sharing Lands: Reconciliation, Recognition, and Reciprocity' project.
Shelley's work has been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of Museum Ethnography and ART HX and she is the founder of The Decolonial Dictionary – a resource aimed at making postcolonial theory more accessible in museum contexts. She has worked with a range of museums including the Science Museum, Wellcome Collection, and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on a variety of collections research and curatorial projects.
https://sharinglands.com
Decolonial Dictionary website: https://decolonialdictionary.wordpress.com/
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