Select Publications
Monographs
- Rich and Strange: Literatures of the Indian Ocean (ongoing)
- Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; paperback reprint, 2017)
Honours: Nominated for the MLA First Book Prize (2013); ICAS Book Prize (2012ā13); Featured on LSE Review of Books (2016); Part of the Michel Foucault Series (Palgrave UK)
Edited Collections
- "Transmodernity and Literature: Of Worlds in Contact",Asian Review of World Histories, Vol. 13.2 (July 2025) and Vol. 14.1 (Jan 2026) [Brill]
- "Maritime Transmodernities: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Indian Ocean World", Postcolonial Text, Vol. 14, Iss. 3 & 4, 2019
Book Chapters
- "'Of women like us:' Sappho's Voice: Reading the Sapphic Palimpsest," in Lesbian Voices: Canada and the World, 2006
- "Introduction to Queer Theory," in Literary Theory: Textual Applications, 2002
Journal Articles
- "Transmodernity and Literature: The Lineaments of a Field," Asian Review of World Histories, July 2025
- "What is a Shakespearean Actor?: Fahadh Faasil and Malayalam Cinematic Adaptation in the 21st Century," Shakespeare,2025
- "'No one heard me!': Sexual Self-fashioning and the Child in 'LihÄf'", South Asian History and Culture, 2023
- "Transculturated Shakespeare: Malayalam Cinema and New Adaptive Modes", Indian Theatre Journal, 2022
- "The Lumpenproletariat and the Itinerary of a Concept", Asian Review of World Histories, 2021
- "Geoffrey Bawa and Ludic Modernism", Economic and Political Weekly, 2020
- "Maritime Transmodernities and the Ibis Trilogy", Postcolonial Text, 2019
- "The Contours of the Field: Literatures of the Indian Ocean", Postcolonial Text, 2019
- "The Paradoxes of Realism: Martin Wickramasinghe and The JÄtakas", ERIAC 2017
- "Translated Worlds", with Chandrima Chakraborty, Postcolonial Text, 2015
- "Giraya and the Gothic Space", University of Toronto Quarterly, 2015
- "Imagining Ceylon", Phoenix, 2015
- "Sri Lanka", World Literature Today, 2014
- "Colonial Cousins", Nethra Review, 2010
- "Girish Karnad and Feminist Possibilities", Intersections, 2009
Interviews
- "'Amphibious Histories': An Interview with Isabel Hofmeyr", Postcolonial Text, 2019
- "'Arriving at writing': A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah", with Sreya M. Datta, Postcolonial Text, 2019
Online Articles
- "Class, Subalternity, and Ethical Choice in Modern India," CafƩ Dissensus, 2014
- "The Languages of Sexual Violence," Kafila, 2013