Books​​
  • "Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone" (Columbia UP, under contract)
  • "What is 'We'?" (Agenda Publishing, under contract)
  • "The Portal," with Chi Rainer Bornfree (Aleph Book Company, under contract)
  • "Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice," co-edited with Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, and Pavitra Sundar (University of California Press, 2023) [In Print and Open Access] [2024 René Wellek Prize]

Special Issues
  • "Fictions of the Pandemic," co-editing with Roanne Kantor, ​MFS: Modern Fiction Studies​ [Call for Papers]
  • "The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media," co-editing with Christopher T. Fan, Paul Nadal, and Tina Chen, Verge: Studies in Global Asias (2025) [Call for Papers]
  • "1990 at 30," co-edited with J. Daniel Elam, Post45/Contemporaries (2020) [online; editorial introduction]
  • "From Postcolonial to World Anglophone: South Asia as Test Case," Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 20.3 (2018) [pdf] 

​Journal Articles
  • "'English Like Hindi': Chetan Bhagat, Popular Fiction, and India's Voice," Comparative Literature 76.1 (2024) [full text]
  • "Reading Interculturalism After Kalamandalam," Post45: Peer Reviewed​ (2022) [full text]
  • "The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense" MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 83.2 (2022) [pdf]
  • "Do You Have to Have a Home to Leave?" South Asian Review 42.2. (2021) [doi]
  • "'Can the Subaltern Speak' to my Students?" Feminist Formations​ 32.1 (2020) [pdf]
  • "Call Center Agents and Expatriate Writers: Twin Subjects of New Indian Capital," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 49.4 (2018) [pdf]
  • "Moderating Revolution: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, Toussaint Louverture, and the Civility of Reform," The Comparatist 41 (2017) [pdf] 
  • "Everyday stories: The people's archive and the rural in 'new' India," Studies in South Asian Film & Media 7:1+2 (2016) [pdf] 
  • "The Smithsonian Beside Itself: Exhibiting Indian Americans in the Era of New India," Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1.2 (2015) [pdf]
  • "The Rhetoric of Return: Diasporic Homecoming and the New Indian City," Room One Thousand 3 (2015) [pdf]
  • "Thinking 'What We Are Doing': V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh on Being in Diaspora, History, World," South Asian Review 32.3 (2011) [pdf]

​Forums
  • "Three Vasectomies, or, What is an Abortion Story?" Post45/Contemporaries (2023) [online]
  • "What the Mapmaker doesn't know," The German Quarterly 94.3 (2021) [doi]
  • "The Nation We Knew: After Homi Bhabha's 'DissemiNation'," Post45/Contemporaries (2020) [online]
  • "What is 'We'?" The Philosopher 108.2 (2020) [full text]
  • "Good Intentions," Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 7.2 (2020) [full text]
  • "Possible Impossibles between Area and Queer," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 25.1 (2019) [pdf]
  • "Thinking Thinking Literature Across Continents Across Generations," with R. Radhakrishnan, Comparative Literature Studies​ 55.4 (2018) [pdf]

Book Chapters​
  • "Memoir, Autofiction, and the New Indian Humanities," ​The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures, eds. Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar. Oxford University Press (2023) [doi]
  • "Is there a Call Center Literature?" Thinking with an Accent, eds. Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar. University of California Press (2023) [pdf]
  • "Teaching South Asian Women's Writing to South Asian Students," Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women's Writing, eds. Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi. MLA Options for Teaching (2021)
  • "South Asia," Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures, eds. Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, and Gabriele Rippl. De Gruyter (2020)
  • "'It's all very suggestive, but it isn't scholarship'," The Critic as Amateur, eds. Saikat Majumdar and Aarthi Vadde. Bloomsbury Academic (2019)
  • "Global India in 21st-Century Asian American Literature," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Oxford University Press, (2018) [pdf]
  • "Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India," Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature, eds. Madhurima Chakraborty and Umme Al-Wazedi. Routledge (2016) [pdf]

Review Essays
  • "Review of Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Akshya Saxena)," Critical Inquiry (2024) [link]
  • "Review of World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth (J. Daniel Elam)," Comparative Literature​ 74.4 (2022): 502-505 [link]
  • "My Mother's Book, My Grandmother's Life," Public Books, 21 July 2022 [link]
  • "What Literature Does: On Literary Activism (ed. Amit Chaudhuri)," b2o (boundary2 online), 31 Oct 2018 [link]
  • "Our Mothers, Ourselves," Public Books, 26 Sept 2018 [link]
  • "Cricket and the Future of India," Public Books, 30 Jun 2017 [link]
  • "Review of The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire, and Loss," SCTIW Review, 24 Jan 2017 [pdf]
  • "Divisions of Labor: Between Cheah's Worlds," Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 25.1-2 (2016) [pdf]
  • "A Graphic Novelist Captures the Paradoxes of Living in the 'New India'," The New Yorker, online, 13 Aug 2016 [link]
  • "Cosmopolitans in Indian Fiction," Public Books, 15 May 2016 [link]
  • "A Small Place in the World," American Book Review 36.6 (2015): 10, 15 [pdf]
  • "Devouring Coolie Bodies: On Raj Kamal Jha's She Will Build Him a City," post45 Contemporaries, 23 Nov 2015 [link]
  • “The Allegory of India's Daughter," L.A. Review of Books, 17 Jun 2015 [link]
  • “Everyday India,” Public Books , 1 Apr 2015 [link]
  • "Lost Footage from a Dual Pilgrimage Home," The Margins/AAWW, 27 Jan 2015 [link]
  • “Complicity and Critique,” Public Books, 15 Oct 2014 [link]
  • “Lahiri, High and Low,” Public Books, 20 Jan 2014 [link]
  • "Review of Object Lessons," Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 23.2 [pdf]
  • “If ‘You’ Were A Rich Man,” Public Books, 20 Jun 2013 [link]
  • "Review of Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are,” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 15.1

Interviews
  • "Education on the Edge: A Conversation with Pawan Dhingra," Hyphen (2020) [online]
  • "Is there a New India? A Conversation with Shashi Tharoor," Education About Asia 20.3 (2015) [pdf]
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Select Journalism
  • "Rogue Hanuman on the Metro: Revisiting the Festival of India (1985-1986)," TIDES: Magazine of the South Asian American Digital Archive, online, 17 Apr 2019 [link]
  • "Let's talk more about the lockdown," Popula, online, 13 Feb 2019 [link]
  • "Is Laughter Yoga Really From India?" Zócalo Public Square, online, 4 Feb 2019 [link]
  • "The Lasting Trauma of Mothers Separated from their Nursing Children," The New Yorker, online, 16 Nov 2018 [link]
  • "The Slow Strangulation of a South Asian Magazine," The New Yorker, online, 20 Dec 2016 [link]
  • "Pressure Cooker: Does high school have to mean high stress?" India Currents, 1 Oct 2016 
  • "Bobby Jindal and the Hyphenated American," Guernica, 5 Aug 2015 [link]
  • "Whose Currents?" Himal Southasian 27.4, 2014: 12-22 [link]
  • "True Stories," The Caravan, 1 May 2014 [link]
  • "'What is called / her own life': An Old(s) Collection Made New," A.Bradstreet, 20 Nov 2013 [link]
  • "Beyond the American Story," openDemocracy​, 2008 [pdf]

Other Publications​
  • "Minor Planet 2986 [poem]," Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 19.1 (2020) [pdf]
  • "Ricky and Jim and Me: On Whiteness," Politics/Letters, 9 Jan 2019 [link]
  • "Metal Boys," March Shredness, 1 Nov 2017 [link]
  • "God on Display (2005)" and "Man on Display (2005) [poems]," Kartika Review, 15 Mar 2017 [link]
  • "P[art]icipatory Urbanisms: Arts of the Global City," UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix, 1 Mar 2016 [link]
  • "Statistics and Queer Theory," UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix, 9 Dec 2015 [link]
  • "Staging the Exchange: Learning to Read and Write Beyond Similarity and Opposition," UC Berkeley GSI Teaching & Resource Center, 2015 [link]
  • "Misreading (in) Modernity: Frederic Jameson and Takeuchi Yoshimi Read Lu Xun," Georgetown Critical Theory 2.1 (2007)

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