Currently a lecturer in English at City, University of London, I have research interests in the post-colonial literatures and cinemas of Africa and South Asia.
I also write freelance on contemporary art, film and books for publications including The Economist, The Times Literary Supplement and Aesthetica Magazine.
Experience
2021–present
Lecturer, City, University of London
Education
2021
University of Cambridge, PhD
2013
University of Oxford, Master of Studies in English 1900-Present
2012
University of York, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) English and Related Literature
Publications
2021
Gender and the politics of war historiography in Buchi Emecheta’s Destination Biafra, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
2021
'They drew an entire people after them': Subjectivity and Arrested Decolonisation in 'Xala', Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
2020
Neocolonialism and the resistant subject in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Journal of Postcolonial Writing
2018
[Book Review] "Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction" by Ruvani Ranasinha, Women: A Cultural Review
2015
"'Black' Spaces: Othello and the Cinematic Language of Othering", Literature/Film Quarterly
2014
"Writing Exile: Displacement and Arrival in Eva Hoffman and Edward Said", Life Writing
2014
"Race, (In)Visibility and Subjecthood in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'", Postgraduate English