PROFESSION
2023-2025: Vice President (elected) and President (after serving as Vice President) of the Milton Society of America (leadership and planning for Milton studies, literary humanistic studies, and critical scholarship in the profession; outreach and collaboration towards public access to poetry, both older and contemporary; keeping professional body membership accessible, especially to scholars in the global South, early career scholars, and scholars who cannot avail of adequate institutional funding; evaluation and steering of professional body representation at major international conferences such as the MLA and RSA)
2021-2024: Key participant and research network member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project “Other Everests: Commemoration, Memory and Meaning and the British Everest Expedition Centenaries, 2021-2024” (contributing “post-colonial perspectives to bear on Everest mountaineering narratives, challenging us to broaden and deepen our understanding of Everest’s mountaineering history, its symbolic legacy and contemporary meanings and significance”)
2021-present: Affiliate of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre (research unit dedicated to the history of translating Shakespeare’s plays into South African languages), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2020-2023: Executive Committee Member of the Milton Society of America
2021: Book proposal reviewer for Oxford University Press
2021: Invited, co-ordinated the visit of, and introduced Iqbal Khan (director of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s celebrated productions of Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Much Ado About Nothing) for a public lecture and a graduate workshop through the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University
2020-2021: Travel Grants Committee Member of the Shakespeare Association of America
2020-present: Critical Race and Disability Studies Scholarship Bibliography
2020-present: Shakespeare in the “Post”Colonies Bibliography
2019: Contributing member of DHARTI (Digital Humanities Alliance of Research and Teaching Innovation), India
2019: Manuscript (book) reviewer for McGill-Queen’s University Press
2019: Manuscript (article) reviewer for postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies
2018-present: Publications Committee Member of the Thinking Mountains Interdisciplinary Summit, Canadian Mountain Studies Initiative, University of Alberta
2018-present: Contributor, performer, and participant in On Board(hers), an all-women dance production exploring the gendered experience of migration in the twenty-first century
2017-present: Consultant for Bengali texts in the Miranda Digital Asset Platform, Folger Shakespeare Library
2016-present: Consultant for scholarship and reporting on Himalayan mountaineering history for the world’s leading alpine publication, Alpinist magazine
2014-present: Advising and support to many BIPOC and first-generation applicants (from India, UK, USA, Canada, China, South Africa, and France) to graduate school and academic appointments in various parts of the world
2014-2018: Graduate Student Associate, interdisciplinary SSHRC multi-year research project Early Modern Conversions, McGill University
2016: Transcriber for Transcribathon organised by Early Modern Recipes Online Collective
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2021: Speaker for department-wide, cross-campus, Information Exchange on the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program (as recipient of a year-long NEH Fellowship)
2020-2021: Contributing member of the Self-Study Team for External Review at OSU Newark
2019-present: Advocacy for better policies to support women and parents at The Ohio State University (consistent and multifaceted discussion with The Women’s Place, to work towards the revision of Policy 6.27 through the Office of Human Resources)
2019-present: Curriculum and course development and design in three teaching areas—Early Modern Literature, Disability Studies, US Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature—for OSU’s new General Education Program
2019-present: Cultural Arts and Events Committee Member at OSU Newark
2019-present: Steering member for actions towards emphatic diversity and inclusivity at OSU Newark (discussions, lectures, peer education)
2019-present: Planning Committee Member and Photographer for the DISCO Ball (an intellectual and social annual event focused on the disability community, held in partnership with the Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference)
2018-present: Renaissance Reading Group
2018-present: Renaissance Dissertation Seminar
2018-present: Various committees on and support of undergraduate student excellence programmes, such as the Joseph V. Denney Award for an Outstanding English Major (across all five Ohio State campuses), the Undergraduate Research Award (Newark campus), the Student Research Forum (Newark campus), the English Studies Essay Award (Newark campus), the English Studies Community Citizenship Award (Newark campus), and Lord Denney’s Players performances (Columbus campus)
2018-present: Various committees on and support of graduate student excellence programmes, such as on PhD admissions (Renaissance Studies and Disability Studies), conferences (Renaissance Studies and Disability Studies), reading groups (Renaissance Studies, Disability Studies, and South Asian Studies), and graduate group lectures and events (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Disability Studies, and South Asian Studies)
2018-present: Engagement and outreach towards recruitment of graduate and undergraduate students, such as by advising prospective research students (at the postgraduate level; Columbus campus), and by organising the English Department tables during Buckeye Visit Days (for undergraduates; Newark campus)
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
2011-2018: Founder and Coordinator, Mountaineering Culture Studies Group
2016-2017: Search Committee Member, University of Michigan’s Department of English and Program in the Environment Joint Search for Tenure Line Faculty Position (Open Rank) in the Environmental Humanities
2011-2017: Steering Committee, Early Modern Colloquium
2016: Organiser, Digital Humanities Panel on DREaM (Distant Reading Early Modernity) and Text-Mining with the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) Dataset, Hatcher Graduate Library
2015: Organiser and participant of Transcribathon—12-hour transcribing and digitization run of early modern manuscripts—in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library
2014-2015: Transcriber and cataloguer of early modern manuscripts at Special Collections, Hatcher Graduate Library
2013: Co-organiser, Early Modern Colloquium Conference “Violence in the Early Modern Period”