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Research output per year
Samuel Alexander Building
A206
I came to Manchester in September 2019 from Lancaster University, where I was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow. My research focuses on multispecies interactions in postcolonial literature, with a special concentration in contemporary South Asia. My book Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021), locates techniques of identity formation in relationships between animals and humans in Indian writing from the late colonial period to the present day.
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My research focuses on representations of multispecies living in contemporary South Asian literature and culture. My book Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature, examines the way that animal-human intimacy in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India disturbs dominant narratives of identity and nationhood.
I am currently interested in ideas of denizenship as a status that breaches species boundaries. This project looks at representations of migrancy, incarceration, urbanisation, and climate crisis. At the moment I am also working on discourses of cow protection in Hindu nationalist politics.
I have broader interests in postcolonial literature and theory, animal studies, interdisciplinary South Asian studies, and environmental humanities.
PhD, English and South Asian Studies, University of Toronto
MA, English, University of Toronto
BA (Hons), English and History, University of Toronto
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review