I specialize in the literature and politics of postcolonial and Anglophone worlds in the twentieth century and present, with particular attention to the cultures and contradictions of Afro-Asian decolonization. My research interests span Marxist aesthetics, world-systems analysis, the theory of the novel, gender and sexuality studies, transnational histories of capital and labour, and contemporary culture industries.

At Penn, I have designed and taught beginner and advanced courses on colonial and postcolonial literature, the contemporary global novel, British and Anglophone fiction from Windrush to Brexit, race, immigration, and diaspora. I have also assisted courses on law and literature and the history of the book. Between 2021 and 2023, I organized Latitudes, our working group on race, empire, and the Global South. In 2021, I was named the John Lewis Haney Graduate Fellow in English.

Before graduate school, I worked for several years at independent and academic presses and archives including the South Asian American Digital Archive, Boston Review, and Columbia University Press. I have a B.A. in English from St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, India, and an M.A. in English from Villanova University.