Chari's research focuses on the Frankfurt School, Western Marxism, and the relationship between critical theory, contemporary art, and embodied practices. She is the author of A User's Manual to Claire Fontaine (Lenz Press, 2024) and A Political Economy of the Senses: Neoliberalism, Reification, Critique (Columbia University Press, 2015), and her research on embodied practices and political theory has been published in Contemporanea: A Glossary of the XXI Century (MIT Press, forthcoming), Bodies in Politics: Explorations in Somaesthetics and Somapower (Brill, forthcoming), Dispositif: A Cartography (MIT Press, 2023), Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond (Routledge, 2020), Theory & Event, New Political Science, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Contemporary Political Theory, among others. She is co-founder of Embodying Your Curriculum,™ an organization that helps academics, educators, social justice leaders, and health-care workers bring embodied practices into their work.