Teaching and
research guidance.
My teaching connects literary contexts with close reading and critical interpretation. I encourage students to consider how language, form and historical experience shape a text, and how an interpretation can be developed into a clear written argument.
Connecting context with close reading
The areas represented in my academic work include postcolonial literature, diaspora, literary theory and criticism, Indian Writing in English, and cinema and adaptation studies.
I have supervised research at M.Phil. and Ph.D. levels. For academic conversations, invited lectures or enquiries about my research interests, please contact me directly.
Language, Form & Historical Experience
Guiding undergraduate and postgraduate scholars to examine how structural nuances, poetic metres, and historical traumas inform the imaginative universe of a work.
Developing Clear Written Arguments
Transforming raw intuitive responses into articulated, methodologically sound literary critique and exam-ready expression.
The Literary Compass Series
The Literary Compass extends my educational work through explanations, glossaries and answered practice for undergraduate readers across all six semesters of BA English Literature under NEP.
Explore the six volumes →Suggested lecture themes
Invited keynote lectures, university masterclasses, and seminar modules tailored for faculty and student bodies.
Literature and Belonging
How texts construct geographic, cultural, and emotional homes, interrogating how individuals remember places and negotiate identity amidst change.
Memory and Exile
Reading displacement, diasporic longing, and the poetics of distance across South Asian and world literatures.
Indian Cinema and Literary Adaptation
The politics and aesthetics of transforming prose narratives and classical tragedy into cinematic idioms for modern South Asian audiences.
Shakespeare in Indian Cinema
Focusing on Vishal Bhardwaj’s adaptations (Maqbool, Omkara, Haider) and the cultural repositioning of early modern drama.
Reading South Asian Diaspora Writing
Transnational mobility, generational tensions, and hyphenated identities in contemporary English fiction and poetry.
Postgraduate & Ph.D. Inquiry
Available for doctoral advisory discussions, visiting scholarly presentations, and syllabus consultation.
Invite for a lecture or academic seminar
For guest lectures, conference keynotes, or research consultations, reach out directly.