She received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative Literarture Studies, MLQ, and PMLA. Her PMLA article, "Some Time between Revisionist and Revolutionary: Unreading History in Dalit Literature", won the 2011 William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in the PMLA. Her research focuses on the “small” side of postcolonial studies: the local, the subaltern, the vernacular. She is currently at work on a project that considers global paradigms of indigeneity in literary movements.