Welcome to my website! 

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University. I work at the intersection of postcolonial Cultural Studies and theories of authoritarianism in the wake of European Fascism, with an emphasis on modern experiences of caste-based exclusion in the Global South. 

I have earned my PhD from the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. My intellectual journey spans two countries, the US and India. Before joining my PhD program, I received an M.Phil in Women's Studies and an MA in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. 

My dissertation, "Banality Remediated, Dalit Visions in Times of Spectacular Majoritarianism," articulated three overlapping fields of inquiry: the massive mediatization of Indian politics and its effect on democratic participation, the question of freedom under conditions of social, political, and intellectual tyranny, and the critical role of Dalit and Bahujan writers, filmmakers, artists, and activists in offering analysis of this moment of counter-revolution.

I am working towards turning this dissertation into a book-length manuscript. 

From 2025, I will be an LSA Collegiate Fellow at the Department of Asian Languages and Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.