I am a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before my doctoral studies, I received my B.A., M.A., and M.Phil in English from the University of Delhi in India. My current research looks at the emotional and political lives of debilitated postcolonial subjects and the affective dynamics of power, labor, and violence in the late-twentieth- and twenty-first- century literary and cultural representations of South Asia and its diasporas.

I specialize in 20th and 21st century global anglophone literatures, postcolonial studies, affect studies, and the environmental humanities. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I teach postcolonial literature and cinema with a focus on Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and transnational gender and sexuality studies.

My work has appeared or is forthcoming in ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Critical Inquiry (2024), South Asian Review (2023, 2024), and South Asian History and Culture (2023).

My pronouns are she/her.