colonial and post-colonial literature, South Asian literature, multicultural British literature, international cinema (especially Indian film), literary theory.
Essays:
Longing for Belonging: Literary Narrativization as Political Strategy in south African Indian Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies ; A Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Autobiographical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's Holder of the World , Locating Asian American Literature in Intercultural Spaces ; The World Around and the World Afar All Seemed Compassed: Cospolitan Ethnicity in the Victorian Metropolis, Women's Studies (2003); A Million Enigmas Now: V.S. Naipaul's Use of landscape in the Construction of an English Self, Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement (2002).