I am a scholar, higher education leader, editor, writer, and translator whose work is driven by a fascination with how ideas, stories, and people move across borders—between disciplines, institutions, languages, and communities.

Currently, I serve as Assistant Director, Career Education at the University of Toronto, where I design programs, partnerships, and learning experiences that help students navigate an increasingly complex world of work. My approach to career education is rooted in storytelling, reflection, and possibility: helping students connect their experiences, values, and aspirations to meaningful futures.

Before joining the University of Toronto, I served as the inaugural Senior Assistant Director for Graduate Student Career Pathways at Rutgers University, where I led institution-wide initiatives supporting master's students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scholars. Across my work in higher education, I am particularly interested in graduate education, professional learning, mentorship, and the ways institutions can create more inclusive and expansive pathways for students and scholars.

I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Cinema Studies from Rutgers University. My research focuses on urban humanities, visual culture, literary and media studies, and South Asia. I am especially interested in how literature, film, graphic narratives, and digital media represent cities, memory, belonging, and social change.

My current book project, The Spectral Urban: Visualizing the Indian Metropolis, examines how contemporary cultural texts imagine the transformations and afterlives of urban life in post-globalization India. More broadly, my scholarship explores questions of space, identity, modernity, migration, and cultural memory across literary and visual forms.

My work has appeared in the MELOW Journal of World Literature, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, and South Asian Review, as well as in volumes published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, and Oxford University Press. I continue to write and present on South Asian literature and cinema, urban cultures, visual media, transnational modernisms, and contemporary cultural production.

Beyond research and teaching, I am committed to public-facing scholarship. Over the years, I have organized and moderated film screenings, author conversations, community discussions, and cultural events focused on South Asian and diasporic literature, cinema, and visual culture. These experiences have reinforced my belief that some of the most meaningful intellectual work happens when scholarship enters into conversation with broader publics.

Since 2023, I have served as Managing Editor of Modernism/modernity’s Print Plus platform, where I work with scholars, editors, and contributors to develop innovative forms of digital scholarship. Editorial work has become an important part of my intellectual life. Whether shaping a scholarly essay, developing a digital project, or mentoring writers through revision, I see editing as a collaborative practice of helping ideas reach their fullest potential.

I also serve as Co-Regional Director for the Northeast Region of the Graduate Career Consortium (2025–2027), where I work with colleagues across institutions to strengthen professional learning and community among graduate career professionals.

Alongside my academic and professional work, I write fiction and creative nonfiction and work as a translator. My creative practice explores many of the same questions that animate my scholarship—language, migration, memory, identity, and belonging—but through narrative and literary forms. I am drawn to stories that illuminate the complexities of place, history, and human connection.

Across all of these roles, I remain interested in the same fundamental challenge: how knowledge can travel. Whether I am developing educational programs, conducting research, editing scholarship, or writing creatively, I am motivated by the possibility of creating connections—between ideas and audiences, institutions and communities, scholarship and practice.

Thank you for visiting. I welcome opportunities for collaboration, conversation, and shared inquiry.