I am an incoming Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University. Before joining Rice, I was an Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. I received my PhD in South Asian Studies and Comparative Literature from MESAAS at Columbia University in 2024.

I am interested in literary and visual cultures, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies. My work explores the politicization of popular literature, storytelling, and history recording in British India. I am interested in studying literary and visual genres printed in periodicals that shaped colonial modernity and historiography. I am broadly interested in print history, literature, and empire.

I have published in Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, South Asian Studies, The International Journal of Comic Art, ImageText, Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, and South Asian Review. I also publish regular reflections on literary fiction on my public-facing page @antilibrarian.

I welcome research, pedagogical, and community collaborations. The best way to reach me is through email: sc358@rice.edu

My preferred pronouns are he/him.