Academic Research

My areas of research interests include Caste and Literary representation, Literature and Cities, Postcolonial Anglophone novel, Posthumanism and Environmental Humanities.

My doctoral work entitled "Prosaic Lives: The Poetics of Nonfiction in Urban India" focussed on the representation of Indian megacities in select nonfictional narratives to analyze how nonfictional reportage interrogates the urbanization process in India. 

My M.Phil. dissertation entitled "Serious Men and The Gypsy Goddess: How Newness Enters the Dalit Discourse?" addressed the issue of caste representation in Indian English Fiction by studying representation of Dalits in two contemporary novels, namely Manu Joseph's Serious Men (2010) and Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess (2014). Since both the novels departed from the conventional mode of "liberal-reformist" ideology in Dalit representation, my dissertation aimed to create a dialogue between the politics of representation and self-representation.

I work as an Assistant Professor (Literatures in English) in the School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur. I offer undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses in the following areas: Indian English Writing, Indian Literature in Translation and City Studies. At IIT Jodhpur, I have taught courses titled "Short fiction in India" and "Place and Identity in the Digital Age" to undergraduate and postgraduate students respectively. I have also taught a PhD course (Open Elective) on Dalit Literature.

Previously, I have worked as an Assistant Professor (adjunct faculty) in the Department of English, Kamala Nehru College (2015-2018) and Vivekananda College (2014), University of Delhi. During this period, I taught Shakespearean Drama, Modern Novel, Postcolonial Fiction and Feminist Theory to under-graduate students pursuing an honors degree in English Literature. I also supervised student research papers and served as the Faculty Advisor for English department newsletter.