She is the author of Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Her research interests include secular discourse and contemporary South Asian literature and culture as well as posthuman theory. She is currently working on a SSHRC-sponsored research project that explores how posthumanist theory might enable readings of postcolonial writing on animals and the environment, particularly in postcolonial literatures of plant-collecting and gardening.