“Navigating Academia as an International PhD Student” (workshop) — AHRC Cross-DTP EDI Conference and Network Building, Birmingham, 2026; Exeter South Asia Centre PGR-ECR Conference, University of Exeter, 2026
“Doing a PhD Abroad: Challenges and Opportunities” (invited panellist) — Interdisciplinary Writing Workshop, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, online, 2025
“Muslim Gothic: Partition and Gendered Hauntings in South Asia” — Seeing Muslimness: CRASSH Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Cambridge, 2024
“Lucknow in Cinema and Architectural Memory” — GAPS Postcolonial Infrastructures Conference, Konstanz, Germany, 2023
“Nostalgia Redux: (Un)Doing History in Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire” — British Association for South Asian Studies Conference, University of Leeds, 2023
“Sharafat and Unstable Femininity in Khadija Mastur’s Aangan” (invited) — Resistance and Voice: Exploring Khadija Mastur’s Writing, Tasavvur Collective with WISCOMP, online, 2023
“Political Imaginaries in Indo-Muslim Fiction” (invited) — Poetics and Politics of Imagination in the Islamic World, Takhayyul Project, University College London, 2022
“Ruins of Memory: The Nostalgic Construction of Spatiality in Intizar Husain’s Fiction” — Modernist Studies Association Conference, Portland, USA, 2022
“Romancing Ruins: The Symbolism of Architectural Memory in Gulabo Sitabo” (invited lecture) — Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, 2022
“Memory and Indo-Muslim Nostalgic Fiction” — Memory, Crisis and Estrangement PGR Symposium, CIMS (University of St Andrews) and Centre for Memory Studies (IIT Madras), online, 2022
“‘Golden Hour’: Nostalgic Reflections on the Demise of the Muslim Urban Space in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column” — Spectacles of Decline: A Symposium on the Waning British Empire, University of Chicago, online, 2021
“Muslim Memory of Colonial India in Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi” — Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia, Swedish South Asian Studies Network, Lund University, online, 2020
“Representations of Muslim Masculinities in Indian Popular Culture” — Peterhouse Graduate Symposium, University of Cambridge, 2018
Peer reviewer, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Contemporary Women’s Writing and Space and Culture
Organising committee member, Saints English Graduate Conference, University of St Andrews (2024, 2025, 2026)
Organising committee member and panel moderator, Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global 19th Century, University of St Andrews (2025)
Panel organiser, ‘Literary Dissent and Muslim Identity After Partition’, British Association for South Asian Studies Conference, University of Leeds (2023)
Community and institutional engagement
Co-founder, Tasavvur Collective, a consortium of early career researchers working on representations of South Asian Muslims; co-organiser of its online international symposium, Writing Muslim Women in South Asia (2022)
Co-founder and convenor, Graduate Theory Reading Group, University of St Andrews
Convenor, Invited Graduate Workshop Series, University of St Andrews (2021)
Awards and grants
St Leonard’s College Associateship — University of St Andrews (2025–2026)
Gilchrist Educational Trust Award — Gilchrist Educational Trust (2024)
St Leonard’s Travel Grant — University of St Andrews (2023)
Travel Bursary — GAPS Conference, Konstanz (2023)
Travel Award — Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL (2022)
Handsel Scholarship — University of St Andrews (2020–2024)
