Writing & Publications

Monographs

Palat, Anisha. Aesthetic Ecologies: The Cow, Caste and Contemporary Art in India. Under contract with Manchester University Press for the Rethinking Art’s Histories series (Full Manuscript Delivery: August 2026).

Chapters in Edited Books

Palat, Anisha. ‘Food and Caste Ecologies in Sajan Mani’s Beef Project’. In Methods for Ecocritical Art History, edited by Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio. Manchester University Press. In press, to be published February 2026. ISBN: 9781526180568.

Palat, Anisha, and Kirtika Kain. ‘Collaborative and Dialogical Approaches to Art with Artist and Art Historian’. In The 10+ Volume, edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Nicole Thiara. The PoCoPages, Horizons Anglophones. University Press of the Mediterranean (Pulm), 2026. (under peer review)

Journal Special Issues and Articles

Palat, Anisha. ‘Ritual, Realism, and Relational Ecologies: Bull-Taming Encounters in India’. Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (2026). (under peer review).

Genovese, Silvia and Palat, Anisha, eds. ‘Visual Cultures of Protest: Art and Resistance in South Asia’. Special Issue. Contemporary South Asia (June 2026). (under peer review)
—Palat, Anisha. ‘The Cow-as-Image and the Cow-as-Animal: Resistance, Caste and Visual Culture in the Twenty- First Century’ in Visual Cultures of Protest: Art and Resistance in South Asia’. Special Issue. Contemporary South Asia (June 2026). (under peer review)

Articles in Magazines/ Online Publications

Palat, Anisha. ‘Of Seeing and Being Seen’. The Critical Collective, 12 February 2025.

Palat, Anisha. ‘Art As a Tool of Survival: A Canvas of Exchanges’. Outlook, 21 August 2023.

Palat, Anisha. Exhibition Text titled Earth 200CE, Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, March/ April 2022.

Palat, Anisha. ‘Cows, Bulls and Calendars’. Seminar Magazine, July 2017.

Academic Blogs

Palat, Anisha. ‘DAY NINE: Unmasking the Issues of Cows, Women, and Safety in India.’ 16 Days Blogathon (blog), 3 December 2020.

Book Reviews

Palat, Anisha. ‘Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World’. The AAG Review of Books 11, no. 1 (2 January 2023): 38–40.

Encyclopedia/ Dictionary Entries

11 authored entries for Bloomsbury Art Markets (1st ed., 2022).
Palat, Anisha. ‘Chester Gallery’; ‘Dickinson’; ‘Frith Street Gallery’; ‘New Vision Centre Gallery’; ‘Roger Billcliffe Gallery’; ‘Sam Fogg Ldt’; ‘South London Gallery’; ‘Studio Voltaire’; ‘The Weiss Gallery’; ‘Vadehra Art Gallery’; ‘Warren Gallery’ In Bloomsbury Art Markets, 1st ed. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.