Research

My dissertation, Fragility Thy Name is Man: Marking Post-colonial Indian Heteronormative Masculinities in Literature and Digital Media (1947-), challenges the stability of aspirational ideals associated with post-colonial Indian masculinities, such as virility, stoicism, and entrepreneurship. For more details contact me.

• The Computer and the Subject: Computing Extractivism in Global South Literatures 

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Literature-and-the-Global-South/Lopez-Quintana-Vallejo/p/book/9781032075464

• Review Essay on "Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species By Neel Ahuja." https://mds.marshall.edu/criticalhumanities/vol1/iss1/6/ 

• From the Confessional to the Ground: Understanding Indian #MeToo Feminism https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-other-metoos-9780197619872?cc=us&lang=en&#

• Masculinities in Digital India : Trolls and Mediated Affect ( July 2021) https://www.edizionimuseopasqualino.it/negozio/global-humanities-identity-and-nationhood_year-6-vol-8-2021/ 

• Intellectual Bengali Masculinity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland” (April 2021) https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HFKKGSFQYE7DPPHE7ABI/full?target=10.1080/189021 38.2021.1918501 

• “Situating Right-Wing Masculinities and Revisiting The Men and the Boys Under the Neoliberal Turn” in Boyhood Studies (December 2020) https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/13/2/bhs130208.xml

• “Of Neoliberalism and its Masculine Interlocutors: The Case of Balram Halwai in Aravind Adiga’s, The White Tiger” in Postcolonial Interventions (February 2018) https://postcolonialinterventions.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/amrita-3-1.pdf 

• “From the Confessional to the Ground: The Scarecrow of Neoliberal Feminism in Indian Social Media Metoo Feminism,” for The Other Metoo's (Oxford University Press)

• “Writing Selfhood Through Global South-South as Method: Networked Masculinities in Aravind Adiga and Alejandro Zambra,” for The Routledge Companion to Global South Literatures (Forthcoming March 2022) 

• “English, August: A Meditation on Stoicism and the Fragility of the Postcolonial Bhadralok Ethic” (Under Review) 

• “Towards a New Poetics of Relation in an Island of One’s Own: Construction, Consumption, and Dissemination of Affect in Skin Stories" (Under Review. To be presented at NWSA 2021)

• “Writing into Being through Reading Affirmatively: Locating The White Tiger in South Asian Literary Imagination, ”  (Presented at ACLA 2021)

• The Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Homosociality: Locating Masculinities and Transnational consumption practices in Zindagi Na Mile Dobara ( To be presented at AMSA 2021)