Education
Ph.D., English, New York University (Expected 2023)
Dissertation: “The Economy in Writing: Literary Rhetoric, Economic Thought, and the Anglophone in Modern India, 1890-1990”
Committee: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (Director), Jini Kim Watson, Simón Trujillo
M.A., English, New York University (2019)
M.A., M.Phil., English, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2013, 2016)
B.A., English, Presidency College (2011)
Publications
Academic
Review of Shashi Tharoor’s Inglorious Empire and William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy, Movable Type, Vol. XII (2020)
Bibliography and Timeline, The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature, Cambridge University Press (2019)
Review of Sadia Abbas’ At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 19, Issue 3. 434-437. (2017)
Grants and Fellowships
Public Humanities Curatorial Fellowship, NYU, 2022-23
Penfield Fellowship, NYU, 2022-23
Gordon Ray Travel Fellowship, NYU, 2022
Modern Language Association Registration Fellowship, 2021
NYU Housing Stipend, 2017
MacCracken Fellowship, NYU, 2016-2022
Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission India, 2013-2015
Teaching Experience
New York University
Literatures of the British Isles and Empire, 1660-1900: Economies, Bodies, and Ecologies (Summer 2022, sole instructor)Literatures in English, 1900 - present: Literary and Popular Genres (Summer 2020, sole instructor)
Texts and Ideas: Exile and Belonging (Fall 2021, with Prof. John Waters)
Texts and Ideas: The Other (Spring 2021, with Prof. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan)
Literatures of the British Isles and British Empire, 1660-1900 (Fall 2020, with Prof. Lenora Hanson)
Medieval and Early Modern Literatures (Spring 2020, with Prof. Ernest Gilman)
Texts and Ideas: The Normal (Spring 2019, with Prof. Julia Jarcho)
Literatures in English, 1900 - present (Fall 2018, with Profs. Patrick Deer and John Waters)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Reading Strategies for Specialized Texts, Centre for English Studies (2013-2014)
20th-Century British Fiction, Centre for English Studies (2013-2014)
K-12 Teaching
Teaching with “Unnoticed,” a nonprofit educational organization for under-privileged children (New Delhi, 2013-2015)
Professional Experience
Graduate Instructor, New York University — 2018 - Present
Project Coordinator, Medical Humanities Curriculum, NYU Continuing Medical Education, Spring 2022
Project Coordinator, Medical Humanities Working Group, NYU Core Curriculum — 2019-2020
Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. Elaine Freedgood, supporting Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel — 2019
Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. Crystal Parikh, supporting The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature — 2019
Global Fellowship Advisor, Fulbright US Student Program at NYU - 2018-19
Graduate Research Assistant, South Asia Collections, NYU Division of Libraries — 2018
Public Humanities
Co-Host, High Theory Podcast
A short-form podcast focused on explaining difficult ideas from the academy and providing a platform for scholars and activists to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Lead Organizer, Humanities Podcasting Symposium
An annual symposium bringing together instructors, scholars, and creators in the humanities interested in podcast production for scholarship, public and digital humanities, pedagogy, and more.
Founding Member, Humanities Podcast Network
An interdisciplinary and cross-institutional network of scholars, writers, and educators expanding the horizons of academic knowledge through podcasting.
Host, New Books Network
A consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse via new media.
Founding Member, The Postcolonial Anthropocene Research Network
A group of scholars in diverse fields who study the postcolonial anthropocene as the relationship of de-centered human subjects with various forms of non-human lives and materialities in the postcolony.
Member, Visionary Futures Collective
A collective of scholars and activists in and adjacent to higher education, envisioning and creating better futures. Led initiative identifying barriers and conducting needs assessments for international graduate students to shed light on inequity in higher education and guide collective action
Presentations & Guest Lectures
Conference Presentations
“Sounding Theory: The Podcast Form and the Work of Theory”. Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association Convention, 2022.
“Economic Agon in Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third”. Paper presented at the North East Modern Languages Association Convention, 2021.
“Syllabus for Dire Futures: Reflections on a Summer Course”. Paper presented at the Modern Languages Association Convention, 2021.
“Rohingya Refugeedom and the Category of Asia”. Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, 2019.
“Spatial Thinking and the Planning Imperative”. Paper presented at conference titled “Postcolonial Spatialities” at New York University, 2018
“News of the World: Printing the International in Nationalist Times, Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1918-1922”. Paper presented at conference titled “Publishing the Postcolonial” at Newcastle University, 2018
“Behind the ‘India Industry’: Truth and Money in Siddhartha Deb’s The Beautiful and the Damned”. Paper presented at conference titled “Currencies” at Yale University, 2017
“Blood Money: Affluence, Poverty and Violence in Contemporary Indian English Nonfiction”. Paper presented at Workshop titled “Cultures of Violence” at the Center for Studies in the Social Sciences Calcutta, 2016
“Deathcraft: The techne of Dying, and Ways of Talking about it”. Paper presented at conference titled “Fractious Modernities: The (Dis)contents of the Now” at Jadavpur University, 2015
Roundtables
“Theorizing the Medium” at the Humanities Podcasting Symposium, organized by the Humanities Podcast Network, 2021.
“Re-imagining Transferable Skills: Professional Development in a Post-COVID World” at the Convention of the North East Modern Language Association, 2021
“Literature and Politics” at the 12th Annual Global South Asia Conference, 2020
Guest Lectures
“On Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” (Course Title - Texts and Ideas: The Other, Spring 2021)
“On the works of Din Muhammad, eighteenth century traveller and bathhouse enterpreneur” (Literatures of the British Isles and the British Empire, 1660-1900. Fall 2020)
“On John Donne’s Holy Sonnets” (Medieval and Early Modern Literatures. Spring 2020)
“On Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’” (Texts and Ideas: The Normal. Spring 2019)
“On Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Stephen Frears’s My Beautiful Laundrette” (Literatures in English, 1900 - present. Fall 2018)
Service
Coordinator, Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium, NYU Department of English (2016-present)
Graduate Representative, 19th-Century Postcolonial Studies Hiring Committee, NYU Department of English (2020)
Coordinator, “Reading (the) Now” Working Group, NYU Department of English (2017-2018)
Doctoral Student Representative to the Graduate English Organization, NYU Department of English (2017-2018)
Reporter, Jawaharlal Nehru University News (2012-2014)
Membership of Scholarly Organizations
Northeast Modern Language Association (2021-present)
Postcolonial Anthropocene Research Network (2021-present)
Humanities Podcast Network (2021-present)
Modern Language Association (2018-present)
Postcolonial Print Cultures Research Network (2017-present)
Volunteer Work
Farm Steward, The Wyckoff House Museum (2019)
Soup Kitchen Volunteer, The Bowery Mission (2017-2018)
Filing Volunteer, Make the Road New York (2016-2017)
Skills
Natural Languages
English (fluent), Bengali (native), Hindi (native)
Software
Podcasting: Adobe Audition, Audacity, Anchor.fm, Buzzsprout
Content Management: WordPress, SquarespaceDigtal Art: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Procreate
Social & Email Marketing: MailChimp, Wavve, Hootsuite
OS & Productivity: macOS, Windows 10/11, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace