RESEARCH

I received my PhD in performance studies at Northwestern University in 2014, and was subsequently the inaugural Embrey Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. During my PhD program, I began doing research on queer nightlife in India and the South Asian diaspora. At the center of my research is the search for artistry in everyday life, whether it is dance in the nightclub that allows people to feel something more than the everyday or in the ways fashion is used to protest surveillance. My essays and books draw on a wide archive that includes extensive transnational ethnography, diasporic film, visual art, family film and photo archives, and more. Feel free to message me to request PDFs of any of the essays.