About

I am a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/ researcher and lecturer at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Potsdam Germany. I’ve been a student of Anglophone and Postcolonial literature since my undergraduate studies from the University of Delhi, Hindu College. I completed my Masters and MPhil. Degree (with distinction) in English Literature from the Department of English, University of Delhi. Following that, I taught English Literature and Postcolonial theory in the capacity of Assistant Professor at St. Stephen's College and Miranda House, University of Delhi. I wrote my MPhil thesis, under the guidance of Dr. Haris Qadeer, on the first Hindi novel, Chandrakanta (1888), linking the rise of the Hindi novel to the early expressions of Hindu nationalism. My PhD dissertation, titled An-Other-World Literature: The Minor Alien In Salman Rushdie’s Tilisms, maps the echoes of a lost oral storytelling tradition in the postmodern writings of Salman Rushdie; it is a project concerned, at its core, with what survives the disappearance of the spoken word and how its absence is filled by other acts of narrating and co-creating otherworlds that result in new ways of reading world literatures. The PhD was undertaken as a fellow of the DFG funded Research Training Group: minor cosmopolitanisms from 2022-2025 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein; it was successfully defended and graded with summa cum laude in July 2026. I am currently engaged in my postdoctoral research which frames the silence of the wordless graphic narrative as a co-creative act located at a suspension point between two conditions: the visuality of a literary form that dispenses with textuality altogether, and the orality that comes to be performed by the reader in their reiterative inventions of the narratorial text, stitching sequential images into a holistic narrative. The postdoctoral project, tentatively titled, “Silent Frames: Migration and Worldlessness in Wordless Graphic Narratives” investigates how silences in wordless graphic narratives produce new readings of the migrant condition, and how such embodied silences may envision a new world from a position of worldlessness. In an attempt to transgress the limits (im)posed by linguistic and philological articulation, my current research aims to capture the politics, poetics, and aesthetics of contemporary migration in the visual domain, and in doing so, lays bare the tacit relationship between the image, speech, silence, and noise.

Having experienced a series of dislocations beginning from my hometown in India, i.e. Patna, Bihar to a Railways’ boarding school in the Himalayan foothills, and currently living between Patna, Delhi, Berlin and Montreal, has allowed me to forge connections beyond the binaries of the local and/or the global. My research and teaching outlook is inspired by this sense of multiplicity encapsulated within the singularity of the individual which links them, as entities in flux, to the changing world.