Assistant Professor
2022, PhD English, University of Notre Dame
2016, MPhil English, Jadavpur University
2014, MA English, Jadavpur University
2012, BA English, Jadavpur University
Bio
My research focuses on Irish, British, and transnational modernisms. My monograph-in-progress, “Plurabilities of the City,” investigates the construction of metropolitan cosmopolitanism in modernist and contemporary novels. In addition to my monograph, I am currently working on editing a volume of essays on Virginia Woolf and Transnationalism for the Virginia Woolf-Variations series published from Edinburgh University Press. I am also interested in the intersections of modernist studies and blue humanities. My work has appeared in James Joyce Quarterly, European Joyce Studies, Modernism/Modernity Print+, and various edited collections.
Publications:
- “River, Sea, Rain: Watery Bodies in ALP’s Soliloquy,” in Finnegans Wake: Human and Non-Human History, edited by Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnegans-wake-human-and-nonhuman-histories.html (Forthcoming)
- “Cosmopolitan Anthropocene: The Convergence of Climatic Consciousness and Transnationalism in Virginia Woolf’s The Years,” in Woolf and the Anthropocene, edited by Peter Adkins (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-virginia-woolf-and-the-anthropocene.html (Forthcoming)
- “Converging Close Reading and Genetic Reading in the UCSE: Toward a Postcolonial Reading” in “Ulysses” Forty Years: Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler’s Critical and Synoptic Edition of “Ulysses,” edited by Sam Slote and Georgina Nugent-Folan (Clemson University Press, 2024) Forthcoming
- “Interrogating the Ethics of Cosmopolitanism in Stella Benson’s Travel Writing,” in Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism, edited by Katherine Ebury, Matthew Fogarty, and Bridget English (Clemson University Press, 2024) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ethical-crossroads-in-literary-modernism-9781638040750?cc=us&lang=en&
- “‘Allspace in a Notshall’: Examining Bygmester HCE’s Cosmopolitan City-Building in ‘Haveth Childers Everywhere’,” James Joyce Quarterly vol. 59, no. 3, 2022, pp. 115–33. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0008
- “The Retrospective Arrangement of Dublin in ‘Wandering Rocks’” in The Book about Everything, edited by Declan Kiberd, Enrico Terrinoni, and Catherine Wilsdon (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 205–27.
- “In Search of Multivocality: Periodical Studies and a Humanities Lab in Practice,” Modernism/Modernity Print+ 4, cycle 2 (2019), co-authored with Trish Bredar, Morgan Alan, Anton Povzner, and Moonoseok Choi. https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/search-multivocality
- “Giacomonic Oxen: Avant-texte or Intertext?” in Genesic Fields: James Joyce and Genetic Criticism, European Joyce Studies, edited by Genevieve Sartor (Amsterdam: Brill, 2018), 82–94. https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004364288/BP000007.xml
Teaching Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, Graduate School and the Kaneb Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, April 2021
Awards
- Dr. John Bishop Memorial Visiting Scholar Fellowship, SUNY Buffalo Libraries Special Collection, June 2023 ($2000)
- Ann Owens Weekes Prize for Irish Women’s Studies and/or Intersectional Studies American Conference for Irish Studies, September 2021 ($500)
- The Nichols Graduate Award for best paper presented by a graduate student British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, February 2021 ($500)
Courses Taught:
- ENGL 121 Introduction to British Literature: Romanticism to Twentieth Century
- ENGL 388 Modernism: Movements and Moments