Interviews/In the News
Times of India: “Trump is forcing us to confront the myth of the American dream itself” (June 8, 2025)
Houston Chronicle: "We’re professors. We’re parents. HISD students don’t deserve AI slop” (June 5, 2025, with W. Caleb McDaniel)
Los Angeles Review of Books: “Did the Pandemic Ever End?” (May 28, 2025, with Kiese Laymon and Chi Rainer Bornfree)
Rice News: “Rice scholars, archive offer historical depth for AAPI Heritage Month” (April 15, 2025)
Rice News: “What does it mean to think across disciplines?” (February 24, 2025)
Scroll.in: “C&R—old friends, parents, academics—turn to each other in anguish and hope” (February 7, 2025)
Conversations, Podcasts, & Presentations
In Conversation with Shruti Jain, Pooja Rangan, and Pavitra Sundar for the New Books Network, June 2, 2025 (podcast)
In Conversation with Fady Joudah and Cristina Rivera Garza at the Jaipur Literary Festival Houston, Asia Society, Houston, September 7, 2024
In Conversation with Alka Joshi and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni at the Jaipur Literary Festival Houston, Asia Society, Houston, September 7, 2024
In Conversation with Zadie Smith at the InPrint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, Congregation Emanu El, Houston, November 13, 2023
In Conversation with Aris Kian, Rohan Chhetri, and Aruni Kashyap at the Jaipur Literary Festival Houston, Asia Society, Houston, September 16, 2023
In Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni at the Jaipur Literary Festival Houston, Asia Society, Houston, September 10, 2022
In Conversation with Naheed Phiroze Patel and Sonal Kohli at the Jaipur Literary Festival Houston, Asia Society, Houston, September 10, 2022
In Conversation with Chi Rainer Bornfree and Brooke Holmes, The Philosopher, January 20, 2021
In Conversation with Tim Gauthier about Ling Ma’s Severance, Nevada Humanities, July 6, 2020 (podcast)
In Conversation with Shashi Tharoor, India Community Center, Milpitas, May 9, 2019
“Reading India’s Rise: Genre, Neoliberalism, Narrative Nonfiction,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 4, 2019
“Archives, Embodiment, and the Story of America’s India,” University of Arizona, 2018
“Rushdie, Bhagat, and the Call Center: New India and World Literature,” Ashoka University, July 25, 2017