I am currently an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities at MIT- Arts, Design and Technology University, Pune. I specialise in teaching poetics and English literary history to B.A. and M.A. students. My work also focuses on the methodology and practical application of English language and literature instruction for future educators.

I completed my PhD in English from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India, under the supervision of Dr Swathi Krishna S and Dr Sreekumar Jayadevan. My thesis, titled “Reworking the Myth: Questing Heroes in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle”, examines questing heroes in contemporary American author Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative fiction to study how she reworks the figure of the traditional American questing hero of the nineteenth and early twentieth century by undermining the hegemonic definitions of masculinity. 

My research interests include American Literature, Science Fiction, Queer Theory, Heroism Studies, Ursula K. Le Guin Studies and Gender Studies.