Publications

Edited volumes

Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora. Edited volume. Co-edited with Becky Lee. McGill-Queen’s University Press (2021)

Organizing the Transnational: Labour, Politics, and Social Change. Co-editor, with Luin Goldring. UBC Press (2007)

Selected Chapters and Journal Articles

Forthcoming 2025. “The names we carry with us: challenging the omission of caste and interrogating Hindu identity among South Asian feminists in Canada.” In Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms in Canada: Transnational Challenges and Possibilities, Co-Edited by Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, and Maryam Khan. University of Alberta Press.
2022 “Cosplay, Fandom, and the Fashioning of Identities at Comic Con India.” Chapter in Mimetic Desires: Impersonation in South Asia, eds. Pamela Lothspeich and Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. 29 pages. 191-211. University of Hawai’i Press. Peer-reviewed.
2022 “Auntylectuals: A Nonce Taxonomy of Aunty-Power.” Co-authored with the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (S. Gandhi, H. Kamath, S. Krishnamurti, T. Ramachandran, S. Sippy). Text and Performance Quarterly 42:3, 346-357.
2022 “’Bring about the change we want to see’: Ram Devineni and the media spectacle of Priya’s Shakti.” Co-authored with Ayesha Vemuri. Feminist Media Studies, August.
2021 “Feminist Critical Hindu Studies in Formation”. Co-authored with the Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective (S. Gandhi, H. Kamath, S. Krishnamurti, T. Ramachandran, S. Sippy). Religion Compass, March.
2021 “Grounded Religiosities: Women Navigating Hindu Identity and Social Justice.” Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora. Edited volume. Co-edited with Becky Lee. 35 pages. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2021 “Conceptualizing the Study of Women and Diasporic Religion.” Co-authored with Becky Lee. Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora. Edited volume. Co-edited with Becky Lee. 35 pages. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2021 “Race, Representation, and Hindu-Christian Encounters in Contemporary North America.” Chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations, eds. Chad Bauman and Michelle Voss Roberts. New York: Routledge. 20 pages. 180-192.
2020 “Learning about Hindu Religion through Comics and Popular Culture.” Chapter for an edited volume, Envisioning Religion, Race and Asian Americans Eds David Yoo and Khyati Y Joshi. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 20 pages. 207-226.
2019 “Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies: Canada’s Past and Present.” Co-authored with Nadia Hasan, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Nayani Thiyagarajah, and Nishant Upadhyay. Chapter in Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories, eds. Satwinder Kaur Bains, Davina Bhandar, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, and Renisa Mawani. UBC Press.

2019 “Weaving the Story, Pulling the Strings: Hindu mythology and feminist critique in two graphic novels by South Asian women.” Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, 17:3, 283-301.
2015 “Uncles of the Nation: Avuncular Masculinity in Partition-Era Politics.” In Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises, ed. Chandrima Chakraborty. Routledge. Reprinted from South Asian History and Culture 5.4 (Aug 2014) 421-437.
2013 “Queue-jumpers, terrorists, breeders: Representations of Tamil refugee claimants in Canadian popular media,” South Asian Diaspora 5.1 (Spring) 139-157