I am a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Florida, with a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies. I study post-1950 American and South Asian literature, with an emphasis on urban studies, media culture, and gender studies. My dissertation is a comparative project that analyzes the cultural products and infrastructures of New York City and Calcutta in the mid-20th century.
My digital project, “A Tale of Two Book Streets,” was selected for the MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program, 2023. I received the Rothman Doctoral Fellowship for 2025-2026 from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida for my interdisciplinary humanities research.
As a graduate instructor, I have taught undergraduate courses on American Literature, British Literature, Women’s Literature, Modernism, City Films, and Postcolonial Media. I was awarded the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award for my course on American Modernism by the Department of English at the University of Florida. I was nominated for a university-wide teaching award in Spring 2025.
I have previously worked and published on Dalit feminism. My latest scholarship includes a metamodernist analysis of Sufjan Stevens’ music.
I received my M.Phil. in English from Jadavpur University, India, and my M.A. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.