Selected Publications
Books
The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).
Reprint for South Asia by Zubaan Books, New Delhi 2014.
Women Studies Quarterly 42(2) 2014. Special issue on “Solidarities”. Edited and contributed an introduction with Saadia Toor.
Articles
Decolonizing the Orgasm: Caste, Whiteness and Knowledge Production at the “End of Empire” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Winter 2020)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1846283
‘India Will Change You Forever: Hinduism, Islam and Whiteness since 9/11’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 40.2 (Winter 2015) 487-512.
‘The World’s Largest Dynasty: Caste, Sexuality and the Manufacture of Indian “Democracy”’ Dialectical Anthropology 38(2) 2014.
'Global India and the Divergent Temporalities of South Asia’ in Antoinette Burton ed., The Feedback Loop: Historians Theorize the Links Between Teaching and Research, American Historical Review, 2013 pp. 29-34.
‘Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Caste, Sexuality and the Agenda of Transnational Studies,’ Feminist Studies, 37.1 (Spring 2011), pp. 127-153.
‘Re-Orienting South Asia Studies: Sri-Lanka, Gender and World History’ Book Forum Participant on Kumari Jayawardena’s ‘Erasure of the Euro-Asia: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia,’ Journal of Women’s History, 22.4, (Winter 2010), pp. 248-252.
‘Mimicry, Masculinity and the Mystique of Indian English: Western India 1870-1900’ The Journal of Asian Studies 68.1 (February 2009) pp. 199-126.
‘Gendering English: Gender, Sexuality and the Language of Desire in Modern India 1850-1940’ Gender & History 19.2. (August 2007) pp. 284-304.
‘Vivaham Sadacharaviruddham’ in K.M. Venugopal ed., (translated and reprinted) in Keralam Laingikatha Linganeethi [‘Marriage is unethical’ in Sexuality and gender justice in Kerala] (Thiruvananthapuram: Sign Books, 2006) 163-167.
‘The social life of English’ book chapter in Neelam Hussain ed., The politics of language. (Lahore: Simorgh Feminist Publications, 2005) pp. 63-84.
Awards
International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies (1998-1999)
International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies (1998-1999)
Junior Long Term Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies (1999-2000)
Women’s Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Alice Paul Center, University of Pennsylvania (2001-2002)
Chimicles Fellowship for the Teaching of Writing, University of Pennsylvania (2002-2003)
Humanities Release Time, University of Illinois (2005-2006)
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Faculty fellow (2004-2005)
List of Excellent Teachers, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Common Ground Teaching Innovation Award, Washington University in St. Louis (2011)
Arts & Sciences Summer 2012 Seed Grant, Washington University in St. Louis (2012)
James McLeod Teaching Recognition Award, ArtSci Council, Washington University 2015
Center for the Humanities Washington University, Faculty Fellow 2015
Humanities Summer Research, Center for the Humanities 2016
Roland Grimm Award for Research in Asia, Washington University 2018
Faculty Research Grant, Center for the Humanities Washington University 2018
Center for the Humanities, Reading and Writing Group Grant, "A History of the Present" 2018-present
Courses
Undergraduate
Doctors and Terrorists: The Fictions of South Asian America
Globalization and its Discontents: History, Political Economy and Culture
The Meaning of Pakistan
Incredible India: Globalization and Desire
South Asia in the Wider World: World History, 1300-present
Loss, Longing and Absence: Narratives of the Partition of Pakistan and India
Survey of South Asia, 1500-present
Imperialism and Sexuality: Writing Intensive
Postcolonial/ Queer
Women Write India: Transnational Narratives of Caste, Class and Gender
The World, according to Gender (survey of world history)
Feminism and Postcoloniality (postcolonial, feminist and anti-racist theory)
Invented Traditions, Contested Modernities: Caste, Language and Religion
Colonialism and Culture. The British Empire, 1760- the present.
Graduate
From Decolonization to Globalization: How to End an Empire
Universal history and its Discontents : World, Global and Postcolonial histories
Postcolonial and Transnational Studies
Imperialism and Sexuality
En/gendering history: Postcolonial, Queer, and Transnational Histories
