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My PhD research, which I began in 2021, investigates the relationship between the contemporary Anglophone South Asian novel and the Western academy. Specifically, my work examines the varying ways in which South Asian fiction represents and responds to Western universities and their ongoing implication in shaping neocolonial, neoliberal and patriarchal epistemologies and material realities. Focusing on the works of ten ‘resident’ and diasporic South Asian novelists, including Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie, Amitav Ghosh, Nayomi Munaweera and Uzma Aslam Khan, my project probes how these writers illuminate, exploit, challenge and are constrained by the influence academic institutions and discourses exert across global society and on the texts themselves. My PhD is supervised by Dr Maryam Mirza and Dr Daniel Hartley.

Alongside my research, I was a Teaching Assistant in the English Studies department during the 2023–24 academic year, teaching on the Introduction to the Novel module.

I also received my MA in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature from Durham University in 2021, during which time I was lead organiser for Durham Castle Conference 2021: Power, Privilege and Possible Futures, which included a keynote speech from Professor Kehinde Andrews, available here. I also received my BA in English Studies from Durham in 2017. In between, my BA and MA studies I was a reviewer and sub-editor for A Younger Theatre. My reviews can be found here.