About
Languages: English, French (advanced reading, intermediate speaker)
Learning: Tamil (heritage language, conversational speaker), Ancient Greek (beginner)
Research focus: relationships between postcoloniality & antiquity; Classical receptions of Ancient Greek dramas & mythologies in postcolonial & diasporic literature; critical ancient world studies; intersections between Ancient Greece and modern South Asia; classical and contemporary Tamil literature; South Asian dramas & epic poetry
Concepts of interest: foreignness and the construction of the Other; the labyrinth, the creature, and consumption; ‘miasma’ as generational trauma; temporality and anachronisms; metamorphosis and the convergence of human and animal; landscapes, seascapes, and dreamscapes (and the 'shifting stage' of adaptations); ghosts and the 'specter state' of postcolonialism; (escaping) the cyclical narrative; reclamation, resistance, and reconstruction through adaptation; epic memory
