Doctoral Candidate
Biographical Sketch: I am a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University. In my research, I draw on recent developments in postcolonial literature to rethink key concepts in literary theory. My dissertation, "Allegories of History: The Aesthetic of Critical Redemption in Post-1980 Postcolonial Novels," argues that recent postcolonial novels reinvent allegory as a narrative-cum-visual form to reimagine the nation in a globalized, neoliberal world. I received my bachelor's and master's in mathematics and computer science, and I continue to draw on these fields in my interdisciplinary research through my attention to questions of structure, style, and syntax in literary studies.