About
My research interests are in literary and digital (informational) cultures of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly as they relate to colonialism and racial capitalism. Before coming to Southampton, I was the Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge. My doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Cambridge, examined the short story (afsānā) form in India as part of a fragmented and networked literary culture, intervening into many critical debates within postcolonial studies. My postdoctoral work turned to the study of colonial recordkeeping practices. It became the basis of my current book-project 'Monstrous Archives', which was awarded the £25k Ideas Prize in 2023, and will be published by Profile Books. My work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Critical Quarterly, Review of English Studies, and New Formations. I have abiding interests in histories of open research, open knowledge, and open/alternative university cultures.