About
Tentative Dissertation Title: Parasitic Empires: Colonial Medicine and Literary Cultures in the Anglophone Indo-Pacific, 1880 - Present
Primary Interests: literature and life sciences/health; philosophy of immunology and parasitology; medico-legal discourse; biopolitics; Anglo-American inter-imperiality after 1898; science and technology studies; illness narratives and disability; colonial/tropical medicine; insularity and island spaces; Indo-Pacific Studies; Asian American/Pacific Islander Studies
Secondary Interests: South Asian/South Asian-American literature in English; trauma studies; history of magic; creative nonfiction/autotheory
Education:
A.B. English (Magna Cum Laude, Alpha Sigma Nu), Georgetown University, 2016
M.A. Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University, 2017
