Dr. Sarada Natarajan is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Art, Design and Performing Arts, Shiv Nadar University, Noida and Visiting Faculty at the Department of Theatre Arts, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication. She has taught at universities and colleges in Hyderabad, Chennai and Bogota, Colombia. She is based in Hyderabad where she has been Guest faculty at both the Fine Arts and Theatre Arts Department of the University of Hyderabad for 12 years.

Natarajan completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda. Her doctoral dissertation was on the historiography of ancient and medieval Indian sculpture. Her current academic interests include art history pedagogy for artists, art historiography and popular visual culture. She is a trained vocalist, experiments with voice and music for theatre and illustrates for children.