Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- 20th Century Global and Euro-American Modernisms
- Asceticism
- South Asian Literatures
- Political Theology and Literature
- Postsecularism Studies
- Historical Poetics and Form
- Postcolonial Theory and Ethics
- Modernist Classicisms and Medievalisms
Biography
I am a 4th year PhD candidate. My dissertation focuses on political theology and asceticism in global modernisms. Some of the global modernist figures I am writing on are Sri Aurobindo, Sister Nivedita, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil, H. D., and Rabindranath Tagore. I am also interested in exploring the transnational routes that religious and spiritual thought took in secular modernity to become global phenomena, and the connections between such phenomena and aesthetic and literary critical topics.
I am also a Resident Junior Fellow at Massey College, in the University of Toronto.
List of Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
2021 "Reading in the Night of Wallace Stevens' ‘The Rock,'" The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vol. 45, Issue 2, pp. 179-194.
2021 "Modernity and Mobility: Re-reading Wordsworth and De Quincey," The Explicator, Vol. 79, Issue 1-2, pp. 48-51.
2020 "The Revaluation of Hybridity in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North," Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol. 56, No., 1, pp. 18-29.
Book Chapters
2022 (Forthcoming) "Introduction" to "Sri Aurobindo, excerpts from The Future Poetry," Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetic and Political Thought from the Global South, 1900-2020, edited by J. Daniel Elam [3000 words]
Reviews
2018 "The Unending moving-away: Reading Mobility as Culture in Gabriele Schwab's Imaginary Ethnographies." Review of Gabriele Schwab's Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, & Subjectivity. The Scattered Pelican. Vol. 3.1, 120-125.