Dr. Devaleena Das is a body theorist whose transdisciplinary research explores human bodies, health, and wellness through lived experience and narrative. Her work engages feminist, decolonial, and health humanities perspectives to examine how bodies become sites of knowledge, ethics, and justice within medical and social systems. Drawing on ethnography, oral histories, literature, art, and performance, she develops approaches that foreground embodied storytelling and experiential knowledge in understanding health and care.

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Dr. Das works with both traditional and creative methodologies, ranging from critical analysis of textual and visual narratives to ethnographic field research, autobiographical storytelling, and participatory learning practices. Her scholarship is particularly interested in how narrative and visual practices, such as body mapping, can open new spaces for ethical engagement with marginalized bodies and contribute to more just healthcare systems.

She is the author and co-editor of five books. Her forthcoming monograph, Anatomophilia: The Liberation of the Body (State University of New York Press, 2026), offers a transnational introduction to decolonial epistemologies in body studies, centering the lived experiences and agency of marginalized bodies in the Global South.