Shela Sheikh teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she directs the MA Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy and co-leads the Critical Ecologies Research Stream. Work on colonialism and ecology includes The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions, a special issue of Third Text co-edited with Ros Gray (2018). Taking a decolonial perspective, she is interested in various forms of witnessing and experimental forums for environmental/ecological justice claims.

As of February 2022