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BOOKS
Milton’s Blind Language (manuscript nearing completion)
A study of the workings of blindness towards the making of John Milton’s poetic language in his years of approaching and complete loss of sight; the poetry examined includes Milton’s psalm translations in his years of going blind, his later sonnets, and his final long poetry, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
Regarding Sight and Blindness in Early Modern English Literature: Crossings of Disability, Race, and Empire (work in progress)
Tracing attitudes towards sight and blindness in early modern English literature to examine the relationship between, first, the cultural production of disability, and second, the intertwined phenomena of early modern global contact, race-making, and anxieties over identity, migrancy, and belonging; primary sources for this study include canonical and marginal plays, remarkable and unremarkable poetry, broadside ballads, manuscript accounts of visual affliction and proposed remedies, printed and manuscript medicinal and culinary recipes, and religious and social tracts and sermons.
A Social History of Indian Mountaineering (work in progress)
An accessible account of Indian mountaineering, particularly Himalayan mountaineering, from its colonial “Golden Age” in the mid-twentieth century to the emerging models of the twenty-first; the social and historical investment of this work is in claiming space for mountaineers of the “non-traditional” kind—such as individuals at the intersections of less privileged genders, castes, social standing, financial reach, geography, and age—who have historically enlarged the scope of the sport but remain the least credited for this work.
PEER-REVIEWED ESSAYS
“Shakespeare, Race, and Disability: Othello and the Wheeling Strangers of Here and Everywhere,” in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, edited by Patricia Akhimie (forthcoming; New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 171-191
“On Shakespeare, Anticolonial Pedagogy, and Being Just,” in Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts, edited by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson (forthcoming; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024), pp. 23-43
“Madhusudan’s Miltonic Epic, The Meghnādbadh kābya” in Milton Across Borders and Media, edited by Angelica Duran and Islam Issa (forthcoming; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 143-160
“When They Consider How Their Light Is Spent: On Intersectional Race and Disability Theories in the Classroom” in Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide, edited by Anna Wainwright and Matthieu Chapman (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, 2023), pp. 161-186; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54027/LRIQ5961
“The Invention of Race and the Postcolonial Renaissance,” Book Forum article, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2022), pp. 132-138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2021.38
“On Teaching Im/Migration in an Undergraduate Classroom,” Radical Teacher 120 (2021), pp. 61-68; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2021.910
“Confessions of the Half-Caste, or Wheeling Strangers of Here and Everywhere,” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 11:2 (2020), pp. 212-219; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-020-00171-y
“Travel and Mountains” in The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, edited by Nandini Das and Tim Youngs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 345-360; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316556740.023
“Toward Blind Language: John Milton Writing, 1648-1656,” Milton Studies 60:1-2 (2018), pp. 75-107 (recipient of the Milton Society of America’s Albert C. Labriola Award); DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.60.1-2.0075
“Seeing Feelingly: Sight and Service in King Lear” in Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body, edited by Sujata Iyengar (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 76-92
“Food and Literature of the Himalayan Heights” in The Writer’s Feast: Food and the Cultures of Representation, edited by Supriya Chaudhuri and Rimi B. Chatterjee (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2011), pp. 206-222
“Milton and His Created World” in The Word and the World, edited by Sukanya Dasgupta and Mangala Gauri Chakraborty (Kolkata: Loreto College, 2009), pp. 125-136
BOOK AND THEATRE REVIEWS
“Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability by Genevieve Love,” Renaissance Quarterly 75.3 (2022), pp. 1092-1094; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2022.294
“On Shakespeare and Postcolonial Thinking: Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory by Jyotsna Singh,” Shakespeare in Southern Africa 34.1 (2021), pp. 61-63; DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sisa.v34i1.9
“Disability Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Nilika Mehrotra,” Disability Studies Quarterly 41:1 (2021); DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v41i1.7936
“Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability, by Elizabeth Bearden” (invited for and forthcoming in College Literature, 2019)
“Hamlet [by Silicon Valley Shakespeare],” Shakespeare Bulletin 36:1 (2018), pp. 156-159
PLANNED EDITED COLLECTIONS
Shakespeare in the “Post”Colonies: Legacies, Cultures and Social Justice (under contract with Bloomsbury; projected publication in 2025)
A volume of essays, with contributions from scholars in various postcolonial/“post”colonial geographies, about the stakes and uses of reading, teaching, performing, adapting, translating, and “doing” Shakespeare in erstwhile colonial spaces.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
Shakespeare in Bengal (special issue of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, projected publication in 2024; co-edited with Amrita Sen, University of Calcutta)
Special issue featuring five articles and three interviews on the inheritance, performance, and pedagogy of Shakespeare in undivided Bengal (which includes West Bengal, India, the country of Bangladesh, and the global Bengali diaspora).
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP, POETRY, PODCASTS, INTERVIEWS
“Promiscuous Listening: A John Milton Podcast, Episode 2” (produced by Marissa Greenberg, University of New Mexico, 2021)
“Postcolonial Love Poem: Toward a Future of a Decolonized Alpinism,” Alpinist 75 (2021), pp. 50-52
BritGrad (British Graduate Shakespeare Conference) Plenary Interview (2021)
“A Story Told in Mountains” in Moving Arts: Enduring Impressions (London: The 87 Press, 2021), pp. 45-51
“The TIDE Keywords in an undergraduate seminar on ‘Movements, Migrations, Memories’,” TIDE Project Blog, 2020
“Two pitches in Red Rocks, Nevada,” Alpinist 72 (2020), p. 47
“A Story Told in Mountains” (The Ohio State University Department of English Obsession Story Series, 2020)
“Rethinking Mountaineering Histories,” The Alpinist Podcast (2019)
“The Matter of History: Himalayan Mountaineering and Its Archives,” The Himalayan Journal (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 26-40
“Two Walks in the Kishtwar” co-authored with Harish Kapadia, The Himalayan Journal (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 135-150
“The Unaccommodated: The Himalaya and the Makers of Their Literature,” The Himalayan Journal (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 1-16