I started preparing for my PhD comprehensive exams in the March of 2021. I was in India staying with my parents. As much as I appreciated getting to spend time with family after almost two years, I had started feeling the absence of grad student community around me. I knew…

PhD Comprehensive Exams or How I arrived at my research questions I took a break from writing my blog pieces because I had to focus on my PhD comprehensive exams. However, I knew that at some point I will be writing about the PhD comprehensive exams in detail because one…

Note: This is the course description and readings for a literature course on “Women and Literature” offered in the Fall of 2021. Syllabus making is labor. In case, you use any part of this syllabus, I would appreciate, if you acknowledge it. Course Description: In 2019, the Chilean Feminist Collective…

It has been a year since I was awarded a Curriculum Development Grant from the Humanities Engage Program at Pitt to develop a module titled “Fragment, Ephemera and Periodicals: Reimagining Global Trans History” as part of Julie Beaulieu’s class on Transgender Studies. I had earlier written about how I was…

On World Ocean’s Day, I am sharing this syllabus for an undergraduate class that I am teaching this summer at University of Pittsburgh. This is a six weeks general education class that fulfills several requirements at our university, including Literature, Writing and Global Studies. Please feel free to adapt, borrow…

During the pandemic, there was an avalanche of a number of projects that were launched — podcasts, new blogs, DH projects, YouTube channels, webinars among many other things. Some of these projects were refreshing, much needed and from what I understand was being conceptualized much before the pandemic. …

Environmental Humanities(EH), as a discipline has grown so much in the last couple of years. Part of the reason why Environmental Humanities has been able to do generate robust and exciting work is because of public scholarship. When I think of my own trajectory in the discipline, it strikes me…

It’s that time of the semester, when students have started enrolling for their Spring courses and you have probably been asked by your department and/or university to submit a short course description. Sometimes your institution’s course catalogue will have a generic course description that students can see before enrolling, although…

As a graduate student, who is currently navigating course-work, teaching, mentoring, working on projects and remote caregiving during a pandemic, it is often difficult to keep up with the latest scholarship. However, I have always thought that keeping up with the recent scholarship is a part of scholarly self-fashioning and…