SELECT TALKS

• “After Contrapuntality,” Theory Today, University of Southern California (Fall 2026).

• “Unendurable Freedom,” Scholars’ Symposium, University of Tampa, Spring 2026.

• “After Contrapuntality; Or, Late Magical Realism,” The Novel Seminar, Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2025.

• “Phantom Limb, Occupied Nation: Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel,” University of Virginia, English Department Talk, Fall 2023.

• “A Prison Writer’s Guide to Liberalism,” Michigan State University, English Department Virtual Talk and Classroom Visit for Prof. Zarena Aslami’s “Gender, Race, and the Human,” April 10, 2023.

• “Insurgent Liberalism: Plotting Kashmir in the Indian Anglophone Novel,” The Subcontinent Project, Northwestern University, February 2022.

• “The Detainee’s Two Bodies:  Intellectual Property and Sovereignty at Guantanamo Bay.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. February 2019.

• “Subject Redacted: 9/11 and the Silenced Space of Dissent in Global Literature.” Speaker Series: Dissent in Dangerous Times. Invited Talk and Conversation with Featured Guests Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Larry Siems. POLIS Project/ CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY. November 2017.