DrSheersha Perera

My research sits at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial and diasporic theory and practice-led screen production, with a particular focus on Asian and Global South screen cultures, women's subjectivity, ritual and the politics of representation. I work as a hybrid documentary filmmaker, treating creative production as the primary site through which knowledge is generated, and I develop a hybrid aesthetic that blends fiction, documentary and experimental modes to foreground female experience that is often absent from, or misrepresented on, screen. This approach began with my practice-based PhD film Big Girl, which examines the taboo of menstruation in contemporary Sri Lankan cinema, and continues in Sounds of Menstruation, which extends the inquiry into the aural and affective dimensions of menstrual experience within a medical-humanities frame. My current and developing projects broaden these concerns across disciplines and geographies: Anklets & Footsteps: The Sounds of Kali documents informal urban shrines and intangible heritage in Singapore; Home Song Stories: The Tony Ayres Retrospective investigates affect, authorship and transnational Asian Australian screen cultures; and Echoes of the Shore, a participatory immersive transmedia work, explores diasporic women's relationships to land, ritual and belonging. Underpinning this portfolio is a longer-term commitment to archival, infrastructure-building research exemplified by Tracing Asian Women in Film and to practice-led methodologies that treat subjectivity, affect and reflexivity as research strengths rather than limitations.