I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Dakota where I teach anticolonial and postcolonial literature and cinema. I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2025.

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, cinematic, and cultural representations of South Asia and its diasporas.

My academic writings have been featured in ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Critical Inquiry, South Asian Review, South Asian History and Culture, and Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History.

My preferred pronouns are she/her.