About

My first book, Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf (CUP 2020) theorizes duration and the conventions of realism through an analysis of representations of old age and aging, especially through the way novelists plot the development of characters over time.

I am currently working on a second book, The Aging of Empire: Networks of Dependence from Young England to Young India, which focuses on how the Victorians mapped a politics of age onto the asymmetrical relation between colonizer and colonized. This project demonstrates how progressive, linear models of imperial expansion derived their power from a tacit comparison to the development of a human life, entangling anxieties about the durability of empire with figures relating to old age and youthful inheritance.