Misc
Here I like to keep a running track of what I've worked on, whether complete or unfinished. (Basically it's a place to put stuff academics don't care about :-)Fiction writing
I've written "YA fantasy" novel called Karma Phala. Here's a back-of-book teaser:In a world where karma is real, a young girl forsakes her family and meets a mysterious traveller who claims she is a long-lost Queen.I have the entire book drafted (over 160k words). As of Fall 2022, I am looking for beta readers. If you're interested in a writing exchange for mutual feedback, drop me a line!
Blog
I have a Medium blog that I occasionally post works-in-progress, research or teaching ideas to. Check out some recent posts.Recent Readings
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Stormlight Archive series (I-IV) by Brandon Sanderson
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Acting With Technology by Kaptelinin and Nardi
- Mistborn series I and II by Brandon Sanderson
- A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Escape to Berlin by Adrian Piper (a beautiful book which I had to import through sketchy German bank transactions)
- On all fronts: The education of a journalist by Clarissa Ward
- The Poppy War by RF Kuang
- Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality by JC Nash
- Postcolonial Melancholia by Paul Gilroy
- Terrorist Assemblages by Jasbir Puar
- L'assignation: Les Noirs n'Existent Pas by Tania de Montaigne
- What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri
- The Ordeal of Integration by Orlando Patterson
- Reproducing Race by Rainier Spencer
- Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists by Noson Yanofsky and Mirco Mannucci
- Picturing Quantum Processes by Bob Coecke and Aleks Kissinger
- Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
- Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Ethnicity Without Groups by Rogers Brubaker
Travel
Places I've visited:
- United States (citizen)
- Canada (studied in Montreal)
- Ireland (x3)
- United Kingdom
- Iceland (summer 2016)
- Australia (summer 2017)
- Netherlands
- Germany
- France (x3)
- Spain
- Portugal (including Madiera) (x2)
- Greece (including Crete, x5)
- Croatia (x2)
- Italy
- Turkey
- Israel
- Jordan
- Palestine
- Egypt
- Kenya (2018)
- India (x2)
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Russia (x2)
- Ukraine
- Denmark
- Czech Republic
- Belgium