I am an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. As a scholar of postcolonial and feminist theory, I work primarily in archives-based South Asian film and media studies and comparative literary studies of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics and Pleasure of Violence (ed. Hennefeld & Sammond), Mapping Memory (ed. Panda), Cultural Critique, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, and Interventions. 

My upcoming monograph, Speculative Struggles: Anticolonial Agency and Indian Visual Archives, 1857-1947, brings forward speculative figures and forms of political resistance; it has been awarded a 2026 Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize (American Comparative Literature Association). 

My non-refereed scholarship includes 23 Grams of Salt: Retracing Gandhi’s March to Dandi (2020), a 420-page photographic book co-authored for Navajivan, the press founded by M.K. Gandhi, and numerous essays for general readers.

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