I am an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona, where I teach contemporary literature, literary analysis, postcolonial theory and feminist theory. I am also Vice Chair of the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at UA and Co-Chair of the Academic Council of the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). My current academic book project is a study of the literary discourse on an ascendant "New India" in the Asian 21st Century.
I have contributed to a number of academic volumes and journals including ARIEL, Interventions, GLQ, Comparative Literature Studies, The Comparatist, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, and Women & Performance. Journalism and review 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." My first graduate class, "Against English: Postcolonial Critique and the Problem of Anglophonism," received a 2017 EGO award for best seminar.
I have contributed to a number of academic volumes and journals including ARIEL, Interventions, GLQ, Comparative Literature Studies, The Comparatist, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, and Women & Performance. Journalism and review 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." My first graduate class, "Against English: Postcolonial Critique and the Problem of Anglophonism," received a 2017 EGO award for best seminar.
