Refereed Articles
“Postcolonial Narrative Prosthesis: Political Metonymy, Defamiliarization, and Somatization.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 19:4 special issue on “Narrative Prosthesis at 25,” edited by Ajitpaul Mangat and Christina Fogarasi. Forthcoming
“The Germs of Caste: The Colonial Materiality of a Modern(ist) Metaphor.” Critical Ethnic Studies, 10:2, special issue on Caste, Empire, and Race. Forthcoming
With Sony Coráñez Bolton, “Dragging the (Postcolonial) Body: On Spoliaria and Arcripelagoes.” Disability Studies Quarterly, special issue on Peripheral Crip Critique. Forthcoming
“Disability and Illness in Imperial and Postcolonial Literature,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies, edited by David Bolt. (2026) https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852668.003.0087
“Imperial Immunities: Ronald Ross and Arthur Conan Doyle in the Andaman Islands.” Victorian Literature and Culture 55:3 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150325100156
“The Plague Ship Narrative: Racialized Quarantine in Anglo-American Texts of 1897.” Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures 3:2 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1353/cusp.2025.a968839
“Children of the Sea: Biopolitics, Einfühlung, and Sympathetic Co-Experiencing.” Journal of World Literature, 10:3 special issue on “Empathy and Border-Crossing,” edited by Arnab Dutta Roy and Shailen Mishra (2025). https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-01003007
“Inscribing the Indus: Hydrological Discourse and Travel Writing in British Sindh.” Victorian Studies 66:3 (2024). https://doi-org/10.2979/vic.00159
“‘On These Little Islands, These Things Happen’: Leprosy, Race, and Postcolonial Fictions of Chacachacare.” Literature and Medicine 40:2 (2022). http://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2022.0033
“Objective Witnesses: Disabling the Posthuman in Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier. ” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 15:1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2021.5
“Doctored Images: Enacting ‘Pain-Work’ in John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man (1967).” Journal of Medical Humanities 42 (2020). doi: 10.1007/s10912-020-09671-1
Scholarly Reviews
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020. Literature and Medicine (2021) https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0014
Sony Coráñez Bolton, Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines. Critical Inquiry (Winter 2024) http://doi.org/10.1086/727658
Abigail Boucher, Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction. Victorian Studies (Summer 2025) https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/984658
Public-Facing Scholarship and Criticism
“Severances: Memory as Disability in Late Capitalism.” Chicago Review, July 2022.
“Book Reviews: The United States, India, and Global (Anti)Imperialism. Pyriscence, June 2021.
“High Theory” Podcast Discussion on Jasbir K. Puar’s The Right to Maim, April 2021.
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