Work

FICTION

The Novel

I am currently seeking literary representation for my debut novel, Kaleidoscope Me — the story of a woman who learns, too late, that leaving home was both a gift and a debt.

"I am at my favorite spot in the plane: by the window... I am on my way to an adventure, no, on my way to The Adventure."

Short Stories

Currently under consideration at literary magazines.

TEACHING

I have taught at Georgetown, Stanford, NYU, the University of Chicago, and Parsons Paris, designing original courses on film, religion, postcolonialism, and climate change.

I've also spoken at venues including the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and India's National Academy of Arts, on subjects ranging from gender to performance, to the Hindu diaspora and Bollywood.

A full academic and professional CV is available on request.

FILM & DIGITAL STORYTELLING

I trained as a filmmaker at Harvard and worked in the Mumbai film industry before directing and producing my own film about truck drivers. This documentary, Carriers screened internationally and sold to European television.

I worked on Steve Buscemi's Lonesome Jim in the production department before I started to shoot in India for my dissertation. My doctoral research, a multimedia reworking of the Mahabharata, is now archived at Stanford University Libraries.

Clips available upon request.