Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Analysis of how Emilio Salgari's Pirates of Malaysia series uses India as a setting to interrogate concepts of nobility, honour, loyalty, and morality beyond colonial critique.

How Carr's reflexive realism integrates utopian critique with realistic power assessment, with colonial modernity as foundational to understanding liberal internationalism's failures.

Explore gender imbalances in AO3's celebrity fanfiction through computational analysis, revealing tensions between feminist platform design and real-world content moderation outcomes.

Ethnography of Berlin's literary field examining how migrant writers navigate cosmopolitan ideals, language as event and memory, and resistance to translation and assimilation demands.

Explore how Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K exposes apartheid's racial segregation and colonial oppression through spatial inequality and systemic deprivation in South African society.

Literary analysis of Leila Aboulela's short stories examines Islam and cultural identity as fluid processes shaped by displacement and postmodern conditions.

Comparative analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Abdulrazak Gurnah examines divergent approaches to representing postcolonial identity and historical trauma in East African fiction.

Examining the Amanda Gorman translation controversy to explore whether translators should be selected based on lived experience or professional knowledge and expertise.

Explore how contemporary Indian English novels represent women's experiences through feminist discourse, examining female agency, patriarchal resistance, and intersectional dimensions of caste.

Analysis of Patricia Noah's womanist resistance and non-violent opposition to apartheid legacies in Trevor Noah's Born a Crime using postcolonial and womanist theoretical frameworks.

Study examining Yorùbá traditional music as narrative force in African theatre, documenting songs for Osofisan's Red is the Freedom Road and advocating systematic musical preservation protocols.

Study of women's representation and emancipation themes in novels by Indian women writers Deshpande, Kapur, and Nair, examining patriarchal subjugation and identity formation.

Project a Black Planet explores Pan-African art and culture through an international collaborative exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, running December 2024 to March 2025.

Analysis of Sajjad Zaheer's 'Dulari' through Pasmanda feminism, examining intersections of caste, gender, and religious marginalization in Indian Muslim communities.

Explore M. NourbeSe Philip's poetry through place and geography, examining how her strategic use of 'in' engages colonial displacement and Afro-Caribbean poetics of center, wholeness, and inwardness.

Analysis of Gomolemo Mokae's post-apartheid detective novel examining genre subversion, black consciousness thought, and reimagining of police authority in South African crime fiction.

Study examining Flora Nwapa's representation of Igbo women's emancipation in Women Are Different through sociological, psychological, and feminist analytical frameworks.

Analysis of dehumanization and thingification in Hailu's anticolonial novel using postcolonial theory to examine colonialism's transformation of subjects into instruments.