Select Publications

Game Studies:

Posthumanism and Player Agency in Detroit: Become Human and Nier: Automata. Literariness Journal (Peer Reviewed). Volume 1, Issue 1. January 2026 Link

Food, Family and Cultural Identity: Culinary Nostalgia and the Immigrant Experience in Venba. Ishal Paithrkam (Peer Reviewed). Issue 44. December 2025. Link

“Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games” Globalization and Sense-Making Practices: Phenomenologies of the Global, Local and Glocal. Ed. Simi Malhotra. Routledge India. September 2023. Link

History First-Hand: Memory, the Player and the Video-game Narrative in the Assassin’s Creed Games. Digital Humanities Special Issue, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Vol VII, No. 1, 2015. Ed. Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay Link

Fan Studies/Fan Fiction Studies

Love’s Labour Won: Queering Shakespeare through Fan (Re)Writings in Intersections: Literature and Other Domains edited by Sanjay Arora et al. Yking Press 2025

“Desi Desu: Sex, Sexuality and BL Consumption in Urban India” Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia. Ed. James Welker. University of Hawaii Press. May 2022. Link

Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction and Women’s Writing: (re)Writing Desire into Canon. Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture, November 2019. Link

Comics and Graphic Fiction Studies

Sakkai Muniyai: A Look at Sri Lanka’s First Sinhalese BL Manga. Mechademia 13.1 October 2020. Link

“Man vs Wild: Ecology and the Tintin series”. Tintin in Tibet: A Critical Companion. Ed. Anurima Chanda. Worldview Publications January 2021.