I am a scholar-practitioner working at the intersections of higher education, literary and cultural studies, and editorial practice. My work bridges academic research, institutional program design, and public storytelling.

I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature with a Graduate Certificate in Cinema Studies from Rutgers University. My research interests include urban humanities, spectrality studies, graphic narrative studies and visual cultures in the context of South Asia. My monograph-in-progress, The Spectral Urban: Visualizing the Indian Metropolis focuses on the media urbanisms in post-globalized India.

I have been published in the MELOW Journal of World Literature, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, and South Asian Review, as well as in Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India: Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinema (Routledge), Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury), and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (OUP). My work is currently forthcoming in the South Asian Popular Culture journal and in Virginia Woolf and Transnationalisms (EUP).

Beyond the printed page, I am deeply invested in public engagement and curatorial work. I have organized and moderated film screenings, Q&As, and community conversations on South Asian and diasporic literature and cinema, working with campus and arts partners to highlight underrepresented voices and visual cultures. Whether facilitating a post-screening dialogue on contemporary Indian film or leading a workshop on storytelling and career design, my goal is to make critical ideas legible, collaborative, and alive.

At Rutgers, I currently serve as the inaugural Senior Assistant Director for Graduate Student Career Pathways. In this role, I design and scale institution-wide programs that empower diverse graduate populations to thrive, within and beyond academia. From building mentorship programs and digital badging frameworks to launching signature career events, I specialize in turning complex ideas into sustainable initiatives that bridge student needs, institutional strategy, and future workforce demands.

Within higher education, I see program development as a form of pedagogy. Through my leadership at Rutgers and my role as Co-Regional Director for the Graduate Career Consortium (Northeast, 2025–27), I build ecosystems that help institutions imagine more inclusive futures for academic and professional life.

Since 2023, I also serve as a Managing Editor for the Modernism/modernity journal. Specifically, I work with the journal’s Print Plus platform, where I curate new scholarship, manage editorial pipelines, oversee the integration of multimedia content in digital scholarship, and translate complex research into accessible, digital-first forms. As managing editor and as a freelance developmental editor, my editorial practice is grounded in the same values that shape my research, teaching and leadership: rigor, inclusion, and care.

I am also a translator, and write fiction and creative nonfiction. My creative practice continues the questions that animate my scholarship: language, identity, and the afterlives of displacement.

In all these spheres—academic, administrative, editorial, and creative—I aim to make ideas move: from research to practice, from campus to community, from page to possibility. Across these roles, I’m guided by a central question: how can knowledge travel across borders, disciplines, and institutions to create belonging and impact?

If you’d like to discuss my work or explore potential collaborations, please get in touch.