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Assistant Professor,
School of Liberal Studies

From - To (Year)	Designation & Organization	Core Competency	Additional Exp. Details
2025	Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main
2021-2025	Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean (Academics, Internationalisation) –– School of Languages and Literature; OP Jindal Global University; Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Translation, Print, and Publishing Studies.
2023	Postdoctoral Resident in Manuscript and Print Studies; Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
2019	Assistant Professor (Ad Hoc), Maitreyi College, University of Delhi

Monograph: Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar, Cambridge University Press, November 2024.
Book Chapter: “Boundary Work in the Bazaar: The Women Booksellers at Daryaganj Sunday Book Market”, Gender and Book Trades, Brill Library for the Written Word. November 2024.
“Journal Article: “D Books of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market”, Comparative Critical Studies, Edinburgh University Press, Vol. 18, Issue 2-3, October 2021.”
““The death of a book bazaar” in Himal SouthAsian, 5 February 2020.
https://www.himalmag.com/comment/the-death-of-a-book-bazaar-daryaganj”
“Streets of Desire: Old Delhi’s subversive Love Letter Manuals” in The Caravan, November 2017.https://caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/old-delhi-love-letter-manuals

Member, Board of Directors, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Member, Editorial Board, Anthem Press, Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture
Member, Editorial Board, Ethnography (SAGE Journal)
Member, Bookselling Research Network
Felix Scholar, SOAS, University of London (2018-21)