She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Delhi and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in English and Women’s Studies. Prior to Warwick she taught English and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Warwick, she teaches courses on postcolonial literatures and theory, feminist literary theory and transnational feminism. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay (2011) and a co-editor of the McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women’s Writing (2008). She is currently on a British Academy fellowship for 2011-2012 to complete her book on representations of indigenous culture in postcolonial India. She is a member of the London-based Women Against Fundamentalism and a is a founder-board member of the Centre for Secular Space in London.