Shelley Angelie Saggar

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar is a research assistant in the exhibition project Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections. Her PhD, 'Narrating the Museum: Contestations, Reclamations, and Refusals in Contemporary Indigenous Literature and Film', was awarded in 2024. In this project, she examined literary and filmic representations of the colonial museum, concentrating on texts by Indigenous writers from North America and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Shelley's research interests include critical Indigenous studies, Fourth Cinema and (post)colonial literary and cultural theory. Her 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.