Department of English

My writing contemplates the value of self-restraint, self-discipline, self-exercise—austerity, during a time when such practices seem to piously accommodate conditions of politically enforced scarcity. It just so happens that the three conceits that subtend this inquiry: ethics, nonviolence, and philosophical scepticism, come together most gracefully under the rubric of postcolonial theory. I also love painting, and I look forward to taking it up more seriously as my vocation in the next life.