I am an interdisciplinary literary scholar working across the fields of postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, science and technology studies (STS), political theory, political economy, and critical geography. My research focuses on the ways that literary engagements with agriculture—and, more broadly, labor-mediated modes of human-nonhuman relation—can defamiliarize and reimagine the material, conceptual, and rhetorical bases of naturalized social, economic, and ecological systems.

My projects include "Forms of Development," a monograph that maps a tradition of critiques of and alternatives to agrarian development in 20th century South Asian narrative literature; "Subsistence Beyond Man," a monograph that turns to anticolonial literary visions of subsistence in order to critically reevaluate the concept in light of our current ecological conjuncture; and a journal article attending to the liminality of the human corpse as a site from which to think forms of historical continuity and rupture, as well as more-than-human community, that arise in the midst and wake of statist violence in the (post)colony.