My primary fields of expertise are Creative Writing, Academic Research and Writing, and Fiction and Non-fiction Editing and Essay Review, Content Editing, Ghostwriting. My academic expertise is in the areas of Postcolonial and Colonial Discourse Analysis, World Literatures, South Asia Studies and Indian Cinema, Women’s and Gender Studies, Film, Diaspora, Migrations and Exile, and Travel Writing. I am Professor of English at Texas A&M University. I founded and directed (2007-2017) the South Asia Working Group of at Texas A&M University. From 2012-2014 I was Director of Graduate Studies in English at Texas A&M. Between 2003 and 2006 I was Chair of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toledo. I hold an MFA in Fiction from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers.My first novel Love’s Garden was published in October 2020. My scholarly writing is represented at The Partition Museum (Sept 2023; https://lnkd.in/gJb5iZ4F), the South Asian equivalent of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. My second novel Homeland Blues is under submission. My scholarly work includesReading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century British Writing on India (1998)Slavery, Colonialism, and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism (2006)Hindi Cinema:  Repeating the Subject (2012)Other skills and experience: Public speakingInterpersonal communicationDiverse audience communicationEditing (Fiction, Non-fiction, Developmental, Line)GhostwritingInstructional designRemotely managing multiple courses Presentation of complex ideas and information systems to audiences varyingly familiar with the subject matterData synthesis and communicationDesigning curriculum and presenting in-class lectures Mentoring and training other team membersWriting a variety of content from social media posts to technical reportsLMS: Blackboard, E-Campus, CanvasAdult EducationI am published in Oyster River Pages, The Saturday Evening Post, PANK, Sky Island Journal, Funny Pearls, The Bombay Review, Storyscape Journal, and Bangalore Review. I’ve attended the Centrum Artists Residency, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center Residency, and the Ragdale Arts Residency. Honors and awards include first runner-up for the LAR Flash Fiction contest (2017); long-listed for the Disquiet International Literary Prize (2019 and 2020); Honorable Mention and publication in Saturday Evening Post Great American Short Stories Contest 2020; and a Pushcart nomination in 2021.