SELECT TALKS

• “Phantom Limb, Occupied Nation: Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel,” University of Virginia, English Department Talk, Fall 2023 (Forthcoming: October 13, 2023).

• “A Prison Writer’s Guide to Liberalism,” Michigan State University, English Department Virtual Talk and Classroom Visit for Prof. Zarena Aslami’s “Gender, Race, and the Human,” April 10, 2023.

• “Insurgent Liberalism: Plotting Kashmir in the Indian Anglophone Novel,” The Subcontinent Project, Northwestern University, February 2022.

• “Asian/American Terror,” TRI-CASC Conference: “The Seen and Unseen: The Role of Bodies in Forming API/A Identities,” Haverford College, April 2020. (Cancelled Lecture Due to COVID).

• “The Detainee’s Two Bodies:  Intellectual Property and Sovereignty at Guantanamo Bay.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. February 2019.

• “Alien Nation: 9/11 and Islamic Peril.” Department of English and Asian American Studies, University of Houston, February 2018.

• “Subject Redacted: 9/11 and the Silenced Space of Dissent in Global Literature.” Speaker Series: Dissent in Dangerous Times. Invited Talk and Conversation with Featured Guests Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Larry Siems. POLIS Project/ CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY. November 2017.

• “‘Focus on the Fundamentals’: Islamic Peril, 9/11, and the Professionalized Terrrorist,” Department of English, Ashoka University, February 2016.

• “Difficult Work: Minor Feeling in the Post-1945 Multi-Ethnic American Novel.” Penn Asian American Studies Program Speaker Series “Food for Thought.” University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. November 2015.