Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
• M.A. University of Delhi, India, 2000

Areas of Interest

• British Modernism
• Post-colonial theory and literature
• An article in progress on Virginia Woolf and Nationalism

Selected Publications and Presentations

Review
Srila Nayak. “Terry Eagleton. Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic. Style: Poetics and Stylistics 39 (2006): 226-231.

Presentations
“The Legacy of Free Trade: Victorian England and the New Empire.” Postcolonial Victorians? A Conversation Across Borders Conference. June 2-3, 2006. Department of English, University of Oxford , U.K.

“Tradition and Anti-Totalitarianism: T.S. Eliot as Citizen.” Panel: “Citizenship and the Modernists: Treason and Tradition.” Modernist Studies Association: Seventh Annual Conference. November 3-6, 2005. Chicago, IL, USA.

“Virginia Woolf and Nationalism.” Peer Seminar. Modernist Studies Association: Ninth Annual Conference. November 1-4, 2007. Long Beach, CA, USA.

“T.S. Eliot and Liberalism.” Stony Brook University Conference. February 2004. New York, USA.

Courses Taught

• English 3100: Approaches to Literature
• English 3300: British Literature Survey II

Faculty appointments:

• UNC Charlotte since 2007

Awards:

• Schaeffer Dissertation Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006-2007.
• Cornell University 's Society for Humanities and The School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship, 2003.