Shahidha Bari (born 1980) is a British academic, critic and broadcaster in the fields of literature, philosophy and art.

She is a Fellow of the Forum for Philosophy at the London School of Economics and an arts reviewer for a number of publications.

[10] In 2011, Bari was selected as one of ten BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers,[11] a new project launched in conjunction with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to communicate academic research to a wider audience.

She is the winner of the 2014/15 Observer Anthony Burgess Arts Journalism Prize, for a "powerful and insightful" review of the National Theatre's Medea.

She is one of the regular books reviewers for The Guardian[14] and The Times Literary Supplement,[15] a contributor to Aeon[16] and frieze[17] and appears as a cultural critic on BBC TV.