Teaching

My teaching spans introductory courses in literary and cultural studies as well as specialised modules in postcolonial English literature, diaspora, migration and transnational studies, popular cultures, film and media studies, gender studies, ecological approaches to literature and culture, and academic writing and research skills. My teaching philosophy is grounded in critical inquiry, dialogue, and creative engagement. I encourage students to read closely and think comparatively, situating texts within their historical, political, and intermedial contexts. Across my courses, I place particular emphasis on questions of migration, home, and interspecies belonging, and on the ways human identity is shaped by determinants such as nation, race, gender, class, caste, and ability. My aim is to activate analytically rigorous minds which are ethically attentive to the role of arts, literature and humanities in producing more imaginative empathies and deepening our sense of responsibilities to one another .

University of Augsburg (2024)
Winter Term 2024-2025
• Cultural Analysis: Postcoloniality, Biopics and Gender in South Asian Cinema
(9:00 – 12:30 | weekly and featuring two block seminar sessions | Tue. | Department of New English Literatures and Cultural Studies)

University of Münster (2022)
Summer Term 2022
• Visions of Justice in South Asian Literary and Cinematic Narratives
(9:00 – 16:00 | Mon – Fri. block seminar | English Seminar)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2020-2021)
Winter Term 2020-2021
• Decoloniality and Postcoloniality (Seminar)
(12:00 – 14:00 | weekly | Fri. | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich | co-teaching with Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa)

• Introduction to Digital Anthropology (Lektürekurs)
(14:00 – 16.00 | weekly | Fri. | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich | co-teaching with Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa)

University of Münster (2017-2020)
Summer Term 2020
• Postcolonial Poetry of the 20th Century (Übung: Past and Present: British, American and Postcolonial Studies) (16:00 – 18:00 | weekly | Tue. | English Seminar)

• Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (Grundkurs)
(18:00 – 20:00 | weekly | Tue. | English Seminar)

• Literature as Resistance in Times of Environmental Crisis (Seminar: MA National and Transnational Studies) (14:00 – 16:00 | weekly | Wed. | English Seminar)

Winter Term 2019/2020
• Nation and Homing Desires in Migratory Muslim Fiction (Master Seminar)
(14:00 – 16:00 | weekly | Wed. | English Seminar)

• Migratory Masculinities in Postcolonial Indian Fiction and Films (Übung Theory and Literature: Gruppe IV) (10:00 – 12:00 | weekly | Thu. | English Seminar)

• Academic Skills (Sprachpraktische Übungen Gruppe VIII)
(14:00 – 16:00 | weekly | Thu. | English Seminar)

Summer Term 2019
• Reading Diasporic Literature in the Post-9/11 Context (Master Seminar: Students-for-Students) (16:00 – 18:00 | weekly | Mon. | English Seminar)

Summer Term 2017
• Academic Skills II (Sprachpraktische Übungen Gruppe IX)
(10:00 – 12:00 | weekly | Fri. | English Seminar)