Academic Work

I used to be an academic. Here's what I wrote back then.

• Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature, Palgrave MacMillan 2025.

  I helped edit this work, the first of its kind, and I also have a translation from the Persian in it.

• "Geography, Genre, and Narrative in Kipling's Kim," Novel: A Forum on Fiction May 2021

• A couple of book reviews

• "Toward a Theory of Second-World Literature," Modernism/modernity July 2025

• "Steppe Realism: Nikolai Karazin's Two-Legged Wolf" forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Romantic Literature and Culture 2026

• Geopoetics and Geopolitics, my doctoral dissertation

• My application for the selective Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, which I won. Lift anything you'd like to from its structure or style, but please don't use my ideas without crediting me.

• My academic CV as of its last update.