Research

Research Interests


British literature, Modernist literature, children’s literature, literary theory, South Asian studies

Peer-reviewed Articles

  • “The Female Explorer in George MacDonald’s The Day Boy and Night Girl and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden”, North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, 2016
  • “Community and Anti-community: Caroline’s Societies in Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley”, Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature, 2023 (forthcoming)

Working Papers

  • “The Home and the Anti-home: Houses in Charlotte Bronte’s Novels and the Nordic Selkie Tales (Under Review)
  • “Rethinking South Asian Studies” (with Arun Gupto)


Other Publications

  • Memoir, “Full moon, Facts and Faults,” Telling a Tale – a collection of Nepali Women’s Personal Narrations, Akshar Creations, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2010
  • Short Story, “Shoved by the wind,” Nepali Writers in English, 2010