Dia Da Costa

Dia Da Costa is a brahmin settler on Treaty Six territory working as a professor of social justice and international studies in education at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theatre (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India (Routledge, 2009). She has introduced and translated from Bengali a book of community-produced plays entitled Where We Stand: Five plays from the Repertoire of Jana Sanskriti (2009). She is also editor of a volume of essays by internationally renowned theatre activists and agricultural worker theatre artists from Bengal entitled Scripting Power: Jana Sanskriti On and Offstage (2010).

• Edmonton Alberta Canada
• Race & Anti-Racism