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Research & Expertise in Literature, Law, Politics, and Critical Theory
Law & Literature
Interdisciplinary work at the intersection of legal discourse, narrative form, and cultural texts.
Politics & Critical Theory
Research on power, institutions, and subjectivity informed by critical and postcolonial theory.
Writing & Artistic Practice
Essays, film, and experimental forms that move between scholarly and creative work.
Interdisciplinary Methods
Combining close reading, archival work, and theoretical inquiry across disciplines.
Public Engagement
Talks, workshops, and collaborations with academic and non-academic audiences.
Collaborative Projects
Working with scholars, artists, and organizers on questions of law, justice, and representation.
Academic Credentials
Education
Select Academic Publications
Select Grants & Honours
- • PhD, English, University of Houston (UH), Texas, USA – Defense Spring 2027
• MA, English, St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (DU), India, 2020
• BA (Honors), English, Zakir Husain Delhi College (ZHDC), University of Delhi, 2018
- • “Smoke Historiography: Residue, Embodiment, and the Atlantic Archive in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng” – Under review at Atlantic Studies (Taylor & Francis)
• “Decolonial Hauntology and the Spectral Form: Reading Contemporary Anglophone Novels of Human Rights” – Revise & resubmit at Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor & Francis)
• “I (can’t) See You: The Politics of In/visibility in the writings of Ishtiyaq Shukri” – Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2
- Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Houston 2026–27
• Arab American Education Foundation Shami Research Fellowship, 2025–26
• Arden Eversmeyer Endowed Fellowship in WGSS, University of Houston, 2025–26
• Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, University of Houston, 2025
• Presidential Fellowship, University of Houston, 2022–24
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