PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Too Far From Antibes. Singapore: Penguin Random House, 2022.
Affective Disorders: Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019.
On Lightness in World Literature. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Journal Articles
‘Strange Mythologies: Cultural and Linguistic Opacity in Argonauts of the Western Pacific.’ Prose Studies 43.1 (2024): 52-73.
‘Indices of the Esoteric: Crime, Forensic Science, and Oral Culture.’ Research in African Literatures 54.2 (2024): 21-39.
‘The Literature of Cacao: Jorge Amado’s Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon.’ ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 54.3-4 (2023): 127-55.
‘“Intensities of Feeling”: Emotion, Espionage, and the Ottoman Empire.’ English Studies 102.3 (2021): 342-61.
‘Affective Entropy: Cultural Difference and the Decline of Wonder on Ivu’ivu.’ Novel: A Forum on Fiction 53.1 (2020): 96-114.
‘The Mysteries of Mumbai: Terrorism and Banality in Sacred Games.’ Modern Fiction Studies 65.2 (2019): 285-307.
‘Roberto Bolaño’s 2666: Serial Murder and Narrative Necrosis.’ Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59.3 (2018): 307-18.
‘“Our Supreme Objective”: Nehru, A Suitable Boy, and the Moderation of Feeling.’ Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3.2 (2016): 167-83.
‘Colonial Modernity and Urban Space: Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo.’ Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 1.2 (2014): 255-72.
‘“Every Trivial Little Thing”: Sei Shonagon and the Poetics of Insignificance.’ a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 28.1 (2013): 86-111.
‘Reading the Uninteresting: Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August: An Indian Story.’ Contemporary Literature 53.3 (2012): 493-516.
‘“A Raging Sirocco”: Structures of Dysphoric Feeling in Midaq Alley.’ Journal of Arabic Literature 42.1 (2011): 29-48.
‘On Superficiality: Truman Capote and the Ceremony of Style.’ Journal of Modern Literature 34.3 (2011): 128-48.
‘Partitioning Bodies: Literature, Abduction, and the State.’ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 11.1 (2009): 35-49.
‘Of Territorial Borders and Test Cricket: Exploring the Boundaries of the Postcolonial State.’ Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44.1 (2009): 23-34.
‘City of Sieges: Literature, Communal Violence, and Urban Space.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.4 (2008): 345-54.