Broadly, my scholarship is situated at the intersection of aesthetics and international politics.

My doctoral research explores these themes alongside notions of resistance, diaspora, and exile, focusing on the work and experiences of dissident artists and cultural producers displaced from Myanmar. I’m interested in how representations of resistance are produced, curated, and programmed through visual culture in the diaspora. I explore aesthetic interventions, my interlocutors’ experiences of ‘exile’ and displacement, the political economy of “resistance art”, and the interrelations between these aspects. Theoretically, I engage with post/anticolonial thought, diaspora studies, and cultural studies. I draw on a variety of interpretive methods, including relational interviewing, visual methods, ethnography, and curation.

Journal articles

Sara Wong. “Towards an anticolonial aesthetic politics: surrealist praxis & epistemic refusal.” Review International Studies. (2025): 1 -22. (Winner of BISA’s Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 2024 ECR Runner-up prize.)

Forthcoming

2026. “Ghosts in the Gallery”, Languaging Sensibility: Decolonial Reflections on Aesthetic questions eds. Reiko Shindo & Aoileann Ní Mhurchú (Rowman & Littlefield, Creative Interventions in Global Politics series).

Other publications (including RA & practice-based writing)

Sara Wong. "Reflecting on ‘Impact’ in Artist–Academic Collaborations in Times of Conflict." Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 4, no. 2 (2022): 32-39.

Rohwerder, Brigitte, Sara Wong, Shraddha Pokharel, Dipesh Khadka, Niraj Poudyal, Sagar Prasai, Nir Shrestha, Mary Wickenden, and Joanna Morrison. "Describing adolescents with disabilities’ experiences of COVID-19 and other humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review." Global Health Action 15, no. 1 (2022): 2107350.

Sara Wong. “Graphic Lives, Visual Stories: Reflections on Practice, Participation, and the Potentials of Creative Engagement.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 35, no. 2 (2020): 311-329. Co-authored practice-based article.

Blogs

LSE blog (2024): Weaving Art and Resistance in Myanmar

Broken Frontier Blog (2021): Inside Look: I Am a Leader of My House – PositiveNegatives’ New Webcomic with The New Humanitarian and Fahmida Azim Tells the Stories of Two Rohingya Women in Their Fight for Equality

BMJ Blog (2021): Beyond health: Connecting art, COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals in the rural plains of Nepal (Co-author)

SOAS Blog (2018): Engaged learning in Myanmar’s borderlands