1) The Films of Mira Nair: Cinema Vérité. Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
Excerpt from chapter on Mississippi Masala
Slideshow/Introductory YouTube video
Reviewed in Film Quarterly, South Asian Review, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, Times Higher Ed
Excerpts:
Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Secular Critical Tradition; From Daniel Defoe to James Wood
Chapter 2: On Benjamin Disraeli, Daniel Deronda and Victorian Proto-Zionism
Chapter 8: Literary Secularism After 9/11: Philip Roth's Plot Against America, Orhan Pamuk's Snow, and Edward Said
Essays: Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reference Encyclopedia Entries
“Frances E.W. Harper’s Afropessimist Poetics.” Book chapter in a volume edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Sherita Johnson of Penn State University. For University of Pennsylvania Press. (Date of publication, 2026)
“Anthology, Archive, Corpus: The Design and Implications of African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology. For Archiv Journal. Forthcoming fall 2025“Amputate the Problem, Band-aid the Solution: Censoring Toni Morrison.” Chapter in Sam Cohen, Ed. Banning Books in America: Not a How-To. Bloomsbury, Forthcoming February 2026.
"The Modernist Archive Gap: Black Writers and Canonicity in the Digital Era." In Jamie Callison, Ed. Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives. Bloomsbury Press, 2024.
"Catachresis at the Origin: Names and Power in Toni Morrison's Fiction.” South Central Review 41:1, Spring 2024, pp. 28-45.
“Untranslatable Authorship: Positioning Yeats' "Preface" and the Poetry of Tagore.” Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-Visioning, 2022
Digitizing Derozio: Exploring Intertexts to English Romanticism in the Collected Poems of Henry Derozio Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India, 2022
“The Indian Novel in the Twenty-First Century.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2017
“Postcolonial Studies.” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. 2016.
"Veiled Strangers: Rabindranath Tagore’s America, in Letters and Lectures." Journeys: The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing, 10:1, 2009.
"Animating a Postmodern Ramayana: Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues" South Asian Review, December 2009.
"More than 'Priestly Mumbo-Jumbo': Religion and Authorship in All About H. Hatterr." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, December 2009.
”Names Can Wait: Mis-naming the South Asian Diaspora.” South Asian Review, 28:1 2007 [2008].
Re-Orienting Forster: Intimacy and Islamic Space.” Criticism: A Quarterly, Winter 2007. [PROJECT MUSE]
Republics of the Imagination: Afghan and Iranian Expatriate Narratives.” Minnesota Review 68, 2007.
“Anonymity, Authorship, and Blogger Ethics.” Symploke 16:1-2, 2008.
The Lifting and the Lifted: Prefaces to Colonial Modernist Texts.” Wasafiri 47, Spring 2006, 1-10.