I work at the intersection of literary modernism, poetics, and philosophy. As a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, I am currently developing a project, titled Unaligned Forms, which will offer an account of line and lineation in Indian modernism.
Before coming to Oxford, I held a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (Eutopia-SIF) at ÚMR Heritages, Paris. There, I studied the global development of the modernist long poem, examining the works of G.M. Muktibodh, Aimé Césaire, Louis Zukofsky, Muriel Rukeyser, Mazizi Kunene among others. This research provides the core of my monograph in progress, Measuring Modernism: The Long Poem in the Global Cold War.
I co-organise the Global Modernism Network, whose previous meetings have addressed the themes of ‘Precariousness’ (CYU Paris, 2024), and ‘Intermediality’ (VUB Brussels, 2025).
My first monograph, Samuel Beckett’s Lyric Failure (Bloomsbury, 2025), based on my doctoral research at Warwick, illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure lyric form. With Derek Attridge, I co-edited the volume Literature and Event: 21st Century Reformulations (Routledge, 2021), which studies how literary works are shaped by unpredictable, and sometimes unnameable, events, crises, and transitions.
Modernism; World Literature; Poetry and Poetics
