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Publications Record (as below): http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8495-2487

I work on the narrative intersections of sexuality, gender and ethnicity, race and caste in relation to imperialism and nationalism in postcolonial texts, particularly from South Asia and the diaspora. My particular interests are in the theory and construction of the body, and gender and sexual dissidence. I work on literary texts in English and in translation, from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and film from the mid-twentieth century.

My doctoral research for Queering Postcolonial South Asian Nationalisms: Transgressive Archetypes in Narratives of the Nation was on late-nineteenth to twenty-first century South Asian texts and their transgressive mythological intertexts. The thesis explored queer archetypes and their recurrence in anti-colonial and postcolonial nationalist narratives to deconstruct fixed and normative gender and sexualities. I recently co-edited a special focus on sexuality in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2019), and have published in Journal of Medical Humanities (2017) and edited collections such as the Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature (2015). Links to my work can be found from my Orcid account: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8495-2487

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This is a book chapter in Imagining Muslims of South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, religion,... more This is a book chapter in Imagining Muslims of South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, religion, representations, edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert, 2014

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Jan 1, 2010

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