Her research and teaching focus on global Anglophone and Francophone literatures, gender studies, postcolonial theory, biopolitics, and refugee studies. At present she is working on her book manuscript, Reading Subalternity after Subaltern Studies: Representation, Space, and Agency in the Global South. It examines the works of three major women writers– Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar – to study their retrieval of subaltern agency (speech, action, and consciousness) through what Gayatri Spivak calls “uncoercive rearrangement of subaltern desire.”