PUBLICATIONS

SELECT ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

“Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in South-Asian Fiction.” Oxford History of the Novel in English. Volume 10: The Novel in South and South-East Asia since 1945, ed. Alex Tickell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 44-57. 

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​“South Asia in Graphic Narratives,” special topic double issue of South Asian Review, on “South Asia in Graphic Narratives” Vol. 38: 1-2, 2018, pp. 3-10.

“The World After Empire, or Whither Postcoloniality?” PMLA, vol. 132, no.1, 2017, pp. 149–155.

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“Partition.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, eds. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp. 1278 – 1286.

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“Ecologies of Intimacy: Gender, Sexuality, and Environment in Indian Fiction.” The Cambridge History of the Indian Novel in English, ed. Ulka Anjaria. Cambridge UP, 2015, pp. 221 – 236.

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“Refugees, Gender, and Secularism in South Asian Literature and Cinema.” Representations of War, Migration, and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Daniel Rellstab and Christiane Schlote, Routledge, 2014, pp. 263 – 280.

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​“Visual Culture and Violence: Inventing Intimacy and Citizenship in Recent South Asian Cinema.” South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in Twentieth Century (Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series). Ed. Babli Sinha. New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2012.

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“Visual Culture and Violence: Inventing Intimacy and Citizenship in Recent South Asian Cinema,” South Asian History and Culture 2.4, 2011, 589 – 604.

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Transforming Liberal Arts Education Through Engagement: Students Writing the World." Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University, April 05, 2018.

“Why Partition survivors in the US believe it’s vital to keep talking about the trauma of 1947,” Scroll.in, May 2016.

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“Rohith Vemula: The rot of caste privilege and the price of a Dalit scholar’s life.” Women in and Beyond the Global, Jan 25, 2016, www.womeninandbeyondtheglobal.org.

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“Domestic Violence in Urban India: A Middle-Class Story.” Women in and Beyond the Global, May 15, 2015, www.womeninand beyondtheglobal.org. 

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Book Review, Deepti Misri’s Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India, in The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 74, Issue 04, November 2015, pp 1059-1061.

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“Zoos and Provincial Intimacies.” Essay on Indian Jewish writer Esther David in American Book Review, special issue on “Little India,” edited by Saikat Majumdar, Volume 36, Number 6, September/October 2015, p. 9. 

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“Gender, Cultural Politics, and History in I Am Malala,” article commissioned by GWU Global Women’s Institute’s I Am Malala Digital Curriculum, 2014.

Book Review, Realism in the Twentieth Century Indian Novel by Ulka Anjaria, South Asian Review 36:1 (2014) 194-196.

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Book Review, Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India by Neeti Nair, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 55 (2012): 183-213.

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Book Review, Constructing the Criminal Tribe: Acting like a thief by Henry Schwarz, Journal of South Asian History and Culture 2.03 (2011): 447-450.

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“Cultural Politics and a Tee.” Verve Online, September 2009.

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“26/11: A Historical Perspective,” Verve, special issue on 26/11, January 2009. 

FORTHCOMING

“Reframing Partition: Gender, Migration, and Storytelling in Conflict Zones,” MLA Guide to Teaching South Asian Women's Writing, eds. Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi, MLA (forthcoming 2021).

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“Intimacy, Imperialism, and America: Revisiting Post-47 Postcolonial and Asian American Writing,” Asian American Literature in Transition: 1956-1996, eds. Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials. Cambridge UP (forthcoming, 2021).
 
“The 1947 Partition, War, and Internment: Hidden Histories of Migration and Displacement in Transnational Asia.” Volume II: Asian American Literature in Transition (1930-1965), eds. Victor Bascara and Josephine Park. Cambridge UP (forthcoming, 2021).