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

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, diaspora, and the city. 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.