Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) at Washington State University (2025-current)
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Toronto (2024-5)

PhD in English from Syracuse University, NY, USA (June 2024)
MA and BA in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2016, 2014)

At WSU: "Traditions of Comedy and Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare," (in person instruction), "Shakespearean Drama Post-1600" (hybrid in-person instruction);
At SU: TA for "Intro to Shakespeare" (2017-2018), Instructor for "Ethnicity and Literary Texts," "Race and Literary Texts," "Gender and Literary Texts," "Class and Literary Texts"

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"Reframing Citizenship: Haider, Hamlet, and the Limits of Disability Representation" (Routledge 2024)
"Black, Wicked, and Unnatural": Locating Monstrous 'Others' in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy (Routledge 2024)

"Disability Gain, Aesthetics, and Inclusion: What does it mean to experience disability in early modern England?" (Renaissance Studies 2022)

 

 

• ’Deformed Monsters, Foul Black as Ink.” Religion and the Making of Race session organized by Eli Cumings and sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies, UK. Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Chicago, March 2024.

• “’Foule Ugly Forme (that) Did Her Disgrace’: Monstrous Embodiment, Racialized Disgust, and Disability Aesthetics in Premodern Europe.” Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context session organized by Dr. Penelope Geng and sponsored by the 16th century LLC. Annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia, January 2024.

• “‘There’s For Thy Care:’ Love’s Cure, the Ethics of Care, and the Performance of Normalcy.” Care in Early Modern Literature: Practices and Possibilities session organized by Dr. Cynthia Nazarian. Annual meeting of the MLA, Philadelphia, January 2024.

• “Rew his piteous plight!”: (Dis)ability, Sensory Perception, and Difference.” Session organized by Dr. Jessica Rosenberg and sponsored by the 16th Century LLC. Annual meeting of the MLA, San Francisco, January 2023.

• “The Past that is Not Past”: Sympathy and Racecraft in Titus Andronicus. Panel organized by the Humanities Center, Syracuse University, NY, April 2022. Held online due to COVID.

• “‘Grisly Night’: Reading Racial Melancholia in Book I of The Faerie Queene. Invited to present by Dr. Debapriya Sarkar on behalf of the 16th Century LLC. Annual meeting of the MLA, Washington, DC, April 2022. Held online due to COVID.

• “Spenser and Acoustemology.” Sound Affects Workshop organized by the Early Modern Soundscapes Collective. University of York, UK, April 2021. Held online due to COVID.

• “Ugly Monstrous Shapes”: Signs of Alterity in Book I of The Faerie Queene. Session organized by the International Spenser Society. MLA, January 2021. Held online due to COVID.

• “Arm Thy Heart and Fit Thy Thought”: Affect and Disability in Titus Andronicus, organized by Dr. Sujata Iyengar for the Shakespeare Forum committee at MLA, 2021. Held online due to COVID.​

SSHRC SIG Awards (Toronto), Grants-in-Aid (Folger Institute), Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship (Syracuse University, 2021-22), Graduate School University Fellowship (Syracuse University, 2016-17, 2020-21, 2022-23), Travel Awards (Various).

 

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Chair, RSA Panel; Member, Graduate Placement Committee at WSU



Modern Language Association, Shakespeare Association of America, Renaissance Society of America, RaceB4Race Mentorship Network, Early Modern Soundscapes

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