Shows how legal and literary innovations together reshape property law in the postcolonial world.

The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted.

Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.

Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity, and imagination.

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.

Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.