CV
awards & honors​
Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Sciences (2025)
Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Digital Humanities Fellowship (2025)
Travel Grant for the Duke Feminist Theory Workshop (2025)
Stanford Diane Middlebrook Graduate Teaching Prize (2024)
Mellon Teaching Race Consortium Graduate Student Fellowship (2023)
McCoy Center for Ethics Graduate Student Fellowship (2022)
Bradley Law Student Fellowship (2022)
Economic Hardship Reporting Project Grant (2022)
Postcolonial Studies Association Postgraduate Essay Prize (2021)
Jeffrey S. Haber Award for Student Scholarship (2021)
Dukeminier Awards Journal Student Writing Contest Winner (2021)
David M. Rubenstein Scholarship, University of Chicago (2020, declined)
Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarship, New York University (2020, declined)
Charles Elias Shepard Scholarship for Graduate Study (2019)
SOAS University of London Postgraduate Excellence Scholarship (2019)
Boisfeuillet Jones Medal, Emory University (2019)
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Honors Fellowship (2018)
Interdisciplinary Exploration and Scholarship Fellowship (2016)
Highest Honors on Undergraduate Thesis (2019)
Award for Excellence in Psychology and Linguistics (2019)
Tom and Chris Allen Scholarship, Emory University (2018)
Annie Hall Award for Outstanding Essays, Emory University (2018)
Artistine Mann Award for Best Creative Nonfiction, Emory University (2017)
Interdisciplinary Exploration and Scholarship Fellowship (2017)
Washington Leadership Fellowship (2017)
Phi Beta Kappa (2017)
Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship, Emory University (2015)
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teaching
​Instructor of Record
FEMGEN 140: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law (Stanford University, 2025)
FEMGEN 239: Introduction to Queer Theory (Stanford University, 2024; co-taught with Adin Walker, PhD candidate in Theater and Performance Studies)
Law and Literature (Hope House, a halfway house for women, Summer 2024)
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Teaching Assistant
ENG 161: Narrative and Narrative Theory (Stanford University, 2024)
FEMGEN 101: Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Stanford University, 2023)
IDS 220: Bollywood and the New Indian Woman (Emory University, 2018) ​
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conference presentations
“The Queer Conspiracy of Illegibility," MLA Convention, 2025
"Authenticity: Keywords in Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Studies," MLA Convention, 2025
"The Flowers Bear Witness: Queering Relationality in My Father's Garden," Annual Conference on South Asia, 2024
"Tracing the Politics of Illegibility in Queer South Asian Women's Writing," TTU Comparative Literature Symposium, 2024
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invited talks
“Queer Asylum Seekers and the Performance of Citizenship." Guest lecture for ENG 115: Stories at the Border. Invited by instructor, Dr. Roanne Kantor. Stanford University, 2023.
"Bollywood and Homonationalism." Guest lecture for FEMGEN 98: Queer Music. Invited by instructor, Dr. Maxe Crandall. Stanford University, 2023.
"Postcolonial x Queer Theory: Intersections, Tensions, and Next Steps.” Guest lecture for the class "Introduction to Queer Theory." Invited by instructors, Jenny Evans and Míša Stekl. Stanford University, 2022.
"The Carceral Justice System." Guest lecture for the class "Black Feminism and Anti-Carceral Resistance." Invited by instructor, Dr. Margarita Rosa. Stanford University, 2021.
“Queer Abolitionism.” Guest lecture for the class "LGBTQ Activism." Invited by instructor, Dr. Eli Kean. University of Missouri, 2022.
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professional experience
Law Clerk, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project (2022)
Haber Fellow, The Williams Institute at UCLA Law School (2021)
Associate Product Marketing Manager Intern, Google (2018)
Legislative Intern, Office of Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (2017)
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community involvement
Student Representative, Modern Thought and Literature Committee-in-Charge (2021 - present)
Graduate Student Coordinator, Imagining Justice (2022 - present)
Graduate Mentor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University (2024 - present)
Graduate Mentor, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (2020 - 21)
Graduate Mentor, English Department, Stanford University (2021 - 22)
Deputy Senior Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review (2021 - 23)
Public Interest Law Fellow, John and Terry Levin Center at Stanford Law School (2021 - 23)
Co-President, Middle Eastern and South Asian Law Students Association (2021 - 22)
Vice President, Disability and Mental Health Network at Stanford Law School (2021 - 22)
Articles Editor, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (2020 - 21)
Volunteer, Stanford Law Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming, and Intersex Pro Bono Project (2020 - 22)
Working Group Member, Law and Literature in the Global South (2021 - 22)
Board Member, Stanford Arts + Justice (2022 - 23)
Fiction Reader, The Rumpus (2022)