I am a Newton International Fellow in the School of Arts, English, and Languages at Queen's University Belfast. I received my doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York, and also hold an MA (with Distinction) in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London and a BA (Hons.) in English from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. I was previously a Lecturer in Literature Humanities at Columbia University and a Visiting Assistant Professor in British Literature at the State University of New York, New Paltz. 

My research to date draws on three broad fields: Shakespeare in performance, theories of adaptation, and postcolonial theory. While my primary training was in early modern British literature, a large proportion of my scholarly work focuses on the influence and continued presence of Shakespeare in the contemporary period, particularly in the Indian subcontinent. As a humanities scholar, I bring together the popular and the highbrow, the academic and the political , using contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare as a lens to investigate urgent questions animating public discourse today. 

At Queen's I am working on "Shakespeare, India, Diaspora" a two-year research project funded by the British Academy. This project builds on my doctoral work on the construction and performance of national identity in Indian Shakespeare adaptations and expands to include diasporic theory and contexts. This project forwards contemporary Shakespeare adaptations in film, theatre, and fiction as a valuable corpus of material for thinking through the multiple histories of migration, legacies of colonialism, and intersections of global capital today.