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Research

Books

Crime and Empire: Representing India in the Nineteenth-Century (OUP: Oxford, 2003)

Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and Contemporary Indian Novel in English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
'Natural Disasters' and Victorian Imperial Culture: Fevers and Famines (forthcoming: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Articles and Book Chapters

'Condemned by Ourselves': Empire and its Discontents in Three Narratives of the Indian Mutiny of 1857' in Seobhushan Shukla and Anu Shukla (eds), Postcolonialism and Fiction in English (2004)

'Nimrods: Hunting, Authority, Identity', The Modern Language Review 100: 4, October, 2005.

'Doomed to Smallness: Violence, the Global South and V.S.Naipaul's Non-Fiction', Yearbook of
English Studies (January 2007)

'Surfing the Second Wave: Amitav Ghosh's 'The Hungry Tide', New Formations (April, 2007)

'Arundhati Roy: Environment and Uneven Form' in Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt (eds.)
Postcolonial Green (Forthcoming)
 
'Victorian Empire' in Kate Flint (ed.) New Cambridge History of English Literature:
The Victorians (Forthcoming)
 
"Tomorrow There Will be More of Us: Toxic Postcoloniality in Animal's People" in Elizabeth de Loughrey and George Handley (eds.) Postcolonial Ecologies (OUP: Oxford and New York 2010 forthcoming)
 
'Touring the Dead lands: Emily Eden, Victorian Famines and the Colonial Picturesque' in Julia Kuehn and Tamara Wagner (eds.) Re-Imagining the Victorian Orient: A Special Issue of Critical Survey (February, 2009)

 ‘The Dead Who Did Not Die: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera’, Greg Garrard (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2013)

 

‘Tropical Disease and Palliative Empire’, Michael Gardiner and Claire Westall (eds.), The Literature of Independent England (forthcoming: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

 

‘Ivan Vladislavic: Traversing the Uneven City’, James Graham and Sharae Deckard (eds.), ‘The Spectres of World Literature: A Special Issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing’ (forthcoming, 2013)

Edited Volumes

(with Mike Rossington, Anne Whitehead, Linda Anderson, Kate Chedzgoy and Jennifer Richards) Theories of Memory: A Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press, 2007)

The Victorian World Literary System: A Special Issue of Yearbook of English Studies (41:2, 2011)