Forthcoming
- 2022 “Towards a Decolonial Cosmopolitanism: Tradition and Modernity in UR Ananthamurthy’s
Samskara” Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington DC, January 6-9th
Selected Conference Presentations
- 2021 “Towards Orthodoxy: M. Anantanarayanan’s The Silver Pilgrimage as Bildungsroman”
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Virtual, April 8th to 11th
- 2020 “Finding the Empathetic Genre: Narrative Empathy and Conflict in Mirza Waheed’s
Mirza Waheed’s The Book of Golden Leaves,” American Comparative Literature Association
(ACLA), Chicago IL, March 19th-22nd (panel met virtually despite cancelled conference)
- 2019 “Cosmopolitanism and Tradition: A Critique of UR Ananthamurthy’s Samskara,” South
Asian Literary Association (SALA), Chicago IL, Jan 6-7
- 2018 “In defense of Empathy: A Critique of Dharamveer Bharati's Suraj Ka Saatwa Ghoda,”
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Los Angeles CA, March 29- April
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- 2018 “Primal Androgynies: Statistical and Typological Universals,” Modern Language
Association (MLA), New York City NY, January 4-7
- 2016 “Universality and Human Rights: Ethical universals in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies,”
American Comparative Literature Association Conference (ACLA), Harvard, Cambridge
MA, March 17-20
- 2015 “Deconstructing universalism, Tagore’s vision of humanity,” Northeast Modern
Language Association (NeMLA), Toronto, Canada, April 30 – May 3
Panels Organized/Chaired/Co-Chaired
- 2021 “The Postcolonial Bildungsroman,” American Comparative Literature Association
(ACLA), Virtual, April 8th to 11th
- 2018 “Topographies of Narrative Empathy: The Social and the Cognitive,” American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA), Los Angeles, CA, March 29- April 1
- 2015 “Identity, Politics, and Universals in Literary Theory and Beyond,” Northeast
Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Toronto, Canada, April 30 – May 3
- 2015 “Mapping Colonial and Post-Colonial Spaces: Imperialism, Revolution, and Classism,”
Language Graduate Student Association conference (LANGSA), University of Connecticut,
Storrs, CT, November 06
- 2013 “Postcolonialism and Eco-criticism,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA),
Harrisburg, PA, March 21 - March 24
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