Professor of English and World Literatures, University of Oxford
I am the author of two books: Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007) and What Is a Classic: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (2014), which won the British Academy Prize in English Literature in 2015. I have a third book, Unseen City: The Psychic Life of Poverty in Mumbai, London, and New York, in press (Cambridge University Press). I have edited two collaborative volumes on literature and psychoanalysis (including After Lacan, published by CUP) and published in top peer-reviewed journals such as PMLA, MLQ, Contemporary Literature, Paragraph, and others. My research and teach specialisms are Victorian literature and culture; postcolonial studies; intellectual history, in particular the history and theory of psychoanalysis.
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