B.A. in English and Global Studies (honors), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2015)

M.A. in English, University of Pennsylvania (2018). Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies. 

My dissertation, Race, Dispossession, and Revolution: Literatures from India and the Americas in the Twentieth Century, reconnects the literatures of India and Latin America, and thereby offers an account of the global dimensions of racial capitalism. I reactivate prematurely stalled conversations in postcolonial studies to demonstrate that South Asian and Latin American ideologies of caste--despite their distinct historical genealogies--invigorate modern projects of racialized dispossession and, in turn, shape the political subjectivities of militants involved in agrarian revolution in both parts of the world. 

My research has been supported by the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS) Field Research Grant (2017), the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy (2018 workshop on "Legacies of Violent Orders"), Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for the study of Hindi (2019-20), the SAS Sylvia Brown Research Award (2020), the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at Penn Summer Research Grant (2021), and the SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2022-23). 

My supplementary research interests include postcolonial studies; Latin American and South Asian Studies; Third World and Global South Marxisms; long histories of caste, race, and capitalism; theories of the novel and the world-system; critical development studies; and comparative Peasant and Indigenous studies. 

I co-coordinated the Latitudes graduate working group from 2017-19, acted as the Funding Librarian for the Graduate English Association from 2018-19, and served as the Graduate Assistant for the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas from 2019-20. 

I served on the steering committee for the following conferences: Environments of Modernity (2018), Queer Urgencies (2019), and the Marxist Literary Group Institute for Society and Culture on "Transition" (2022). In collaboration with Dr. Najnin Islam (Colorado College) and Dr. Neelofer Qadir (UNC-Greensboro), I co-organized a seminar titled "Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Labor, Caste, Dispossession" for the American Comparative Literary Association (2020).   

I was awarded a 2021 Editorial Fellowship by Full Stop Magazine, a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize-winning publication, and edited a special issue of the Full Stop Quarterly entitled "The Cultural Politics of Land." I am currently at work on two articles for publication, which are drawn from my dissertation research: "India's Revolutionaries in Mexico: Race, Anticolonial Internationalism, and the Life Writing of M.N. Roy and Pandurang Khankhoje" for Palimpsests of Identity and Memory: Contemporary Perspectives on South Asian Diaspora Literatures, ed. Roshi Sengupta for Routledge; "Maoism and Memoir in the Peripheries: Political Life Writing from India and Peru," for Red World Literature: Periphery, System, Form, Theory," eds. Anna Björk Einarsdóttir and Hunter Bivens.  

I am an affiliated graduate student in the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. 

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