PhD: Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MPhil: Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
MA: Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
BA(Hons) English: Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Areas of Interest:
20th and 21st Century Anglophone Novel; Theory; Marxism; Postcolonial and Global South; 20th century Indian Urdu Literature; Nationalism; Islam in South Asia; Asian American Literature; Popular Culture.
MPhil Dissertation:
Reading/Writing Indian Nationalism: A Dialectical Study of Selected Texts
Current Project:
My PhD thesis plots the effect that the imperial campaign launched after 9/11 has had on critical theory writ large. I focus primarily on the period after the end of the Cold War and the concomitant substitution of Communism with Islam as the main threat to the Global North. Marking our historical conjuncture as an aporia where the new is dying and the old cannot be reborn, I argue that the symptoms that Gramsci saw as morbid in his moment manifest as turbid rhetoric and turgid critique in ours. Reading this impasse in relation to the irruption of post-foundational politics, I show the turbidity of the age of post-truth and disinformation and the turgidity of a modest and moderate post-(ideology)-critique as inevitable consequences of the purely capitalist nature of US imperialism and its inherent contradictions.
PhD: Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MPhil: Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
MA: Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
BA(Hons) English: Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Areas of Interest:
20th and 21st Century Anglophone Novel; Theory; Marxism; Postcolonial and Global South; 20th century Indian Urdu Literature; Nationalism; Islam in South Asia; Asian American Literature; Popular Culture.
MPhil Dissertation:
Reading/Writing Indian Nationalism: A Dialectical Study of Selected Texts
Current Project:
My PhD thesis plots the effect that the imperial campaign launched after 9/11 has had on critical theory writ large. I focus primarily on the period after the end of the Cold War and the concomitant substitution of Communism with Islam as the main threat to the Global North. Marking our historical conjuncture as an aporia where the new is dying and the old cannot be reborn, I argue that the symptoms that Gramsci saw as morbid in his moment manifest as turbid rhetoric and turgid critique in ours. Reading this impasse in relation to the irruption of post-foundational politics, I show the turbidity of the age of post-truth and disinformation and the turgidity of a modest and moderate post-(ideology)-critique as inevitable consequences of the purely capitalist nature of US imperialism and its inherent contradictions.