I am an assistant professor of English, Asian American Studies, and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at the University of Arizona. I am also Co-Chair of the Academic Council and Affiliated Scholars of the South Asian American Digital Archive and an organizer of the 2020-21 Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads" at UA.
Current projects include a single-authored monograph on the pedagogical accents of Indian English literature and a cowritten epistolary memoir, The Corona Letters, with Chiara Ricciardone. I am co-editor, with Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, and Pavitra Sundar, of a field-defining volume in interdisciplinary Accent Studies, called Thinking with an Accent (under contract with UC Press). I have also edited two special issues: "From Postcolonial to World Anglophone: South Asia as Test Case" (Interventions 2018) and, with J. Daniel Elam, "1990 at 30" (post45 Contemporaries 2020).
I have contributed to a number of academic books and journals across fields, including The Critic as Amateur (Bloomsbury 2019), ARIEL, Interventions, GLQ, South Asian Review, Comparative Literature Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, Feminist Formations, and Women & Performance. Essays have appeared online at The New Yorker, Public Books, L.A. Review of Books, and Guernica, and in print at The Caravan and Himal Southasian, among other outlets.
From 2007-2009, I was the Editor of India Currents magazine, for which I wrote a regular column from 2001-2016. My editorial tenure at India Currents earned an Ideas Festival scholarship from the Aspen Institute, and my column has been syndicated by NAM, SJBeez, Khabar, and The Aerogram. I am a recipient of the California Journalism Award, two Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, and five New America Media awards.
I did my undergraduate work as an Angier B. Duke Scholar at Duke University, graduating summa cum laude and phi beta kappa with a BA in Literature. I received my PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, in August 2016. My dissertation was awarded an American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. At Berkeley, I taught and designed multiple undergraduate courses in Rhetoric, for which I received an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2014) and a Teaching Effectiveness Award (2015). From 2016-2017, I worked as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I co-curated the UNR Gender, Race, and Identity series in "Migration and Diaspora."
Current projects include a single-authored monograph on the pedagogical accents of Indian English literature and a cowritten epistolary memoir, The Corona Letters, with Chiara Ricciardone. I am co-editor, with Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, and Pavitra Sundar, of a field-defining volume in interdisciplinary Accent Studies, called Thinking with an Accent (under contract with UC Press). I have also edited two special issues: "From Postcolonial to World Anglophone: South Asia as Test Case" (Interventions 2018) and, with J. Daniel Elam, "1990 at 30" (post45 Contemporaries 2020).
I have contributed to a number of academic books and journals across fields, including The Critic as Amateur (Bloomsbury 2019), ARIEL, Interventions, GLQ, South Asian Review, Comparative Literature Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, Feminist Formations, and Women & Performance. Essays have appeared online at The New Yorker, Public Books, L.A. Review of Books, and Guernica, and in print at The Caravan and Himal Southasian, among other outlets.
From 2007-2009, I was the Editor of India Currents magazine, for which I wrote a regular column from 2001-2016. My editorial tenure at India Currents earned an Ideas Festival scholarship from the Aspen Institute, and my column has been syndicated by NAM, SJBeez, Khabar, and The Aerogram. I am a recipient of the California Journalism Award, two Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, and five New America Media awards.
I did my undergraduate work as an Angier B. Duke Scholar at Duke University, graduating summa cum laude and phi beta kappa with a BA in Literature. I received my PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, in August 2016. My dissertation was awarded an American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. At Berkeley, I taught and designed multiple undergraduate courses in Rhetoric, for which I received an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2014) and a Teaching Effectiveness Award (2015). From 2016-2017, I worked as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I co-curated the UNR Gender, Race, and Identity series in "Migration and Diaspora."
