Infrastructure

‘The Precarious Rule of Aesthetics: Form, Informality, Infrastructure.’ In Om Dwivedi ed., Representing Precarity in South Asian Fictions. London & New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, pp.69-86.

‘Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations.’ In Lieven Amiel ed., Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. New York: Routledge, 2022, pp.163-176.

‘Infrastructural Violence: Urbicide, Public Space, and Postwar Reconstruction in Recent Lebanese Graphic Memoirs.’ In Ian Hague, Ian Horton, & Nina Mickwits eds., Contexts of Violence in Comics. New York: Routledge, 2020, pp.128-144.

‘Urban Comix: Subcultures, Infrastructures and “the Right to the City” in Delhi.’ In Alex Tickell & Ruvani Ransinha ed., Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity. London & New York: Routledge, 2020, Chapter 9.

‘Rudyard Kipling and the Networks of Empire: Writing Imperial Infrastructure in The Light that Failed and Captains Courageous.’ In Promodini Varma & Anubhav Pradhan eds., Proximate Strangers: Kipling and Yeats at 150. London & New York: Routledge, 2019, pp.192-210.

With Elleke Boehmer. ‘Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature & Culture.’ In Boehmer & Davies eds., Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature, & Culture. London & New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp.1-25.

Graphic Narratives

’Graphic Borders: Refugee Comics as Migration Narratives.’ In Gigi Adair, Rebecca Fasselt, & Carly McLaughlin eds., The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature. New York: Routledge, 2024, pp.280-291.

‘Intolerable Fictions: Composing Refugee Realities in Comics.’ In Ralf Kauranen, Olli Löytty, Aura Nikkilä, & Anna Vuorine eds. Comics & Migration: Representation & Other Practices. New York: Routledge, 2023, pp.257-270.

‘Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature.’ In James Hodapp ed., Graphic Novels as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, pp.11-31.

‘The Gutters of History: Geopolitical Pasts and Imperial Presents in Recent Graphic Non-Fiction.’ In Michael Goodrum, David Hall, & Philip Smith eds., Drawing the Past: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World. Jackson: Mississippi University Press, 2022, pp.56-78.

‘Introduction: Documenting Trauma in Comics.’ In Dominic Davies & Candida Rifkind eds., Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, & Graphic Reportage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp.1-26.

‘Crossing Borders, Bridging Boundaries: Reconstructing the Rights of the Refugee in Comics.’ In Elena Fidian-Qasmiyeh ed., Refuge in a Moving World. London: UCL Press, 2020, pp.177-192.

World Literature

With Elleke Boehmer. ‘Empire: The 19th Century Global Novel in English.’ In Joel Evans ed., Globalisation and Literary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp.80-93.

‘Beyond Experience: The Rise of Anti-Racist Non-Fiction.’ In Emma Parker, Joshua Doble, & Liam Liburd eds., British Culture After Empire: The Contested History of Decolonisation, Migration, and Race in Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023, pp.87-105.

With Elleke Boehmer. ‘Postcolonialism and South-South Relations.’ In Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh ed., The Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations. London & New York: Routledge, 2018, pp.48-58.

With Erica Lombard & Benjamin Mountford. ‘Introduction. Fighting Words: Books and the Making of the Postcolonial World.’ In Davies, Lombard & Mountford eds., Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.1-26.

‘From Communism to Postcapitalism: Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto.’ In Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard & Benjamin Mountford eds., Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.27-42.

‘Occupying Literary and Urban Space: Adiga, Authenticity, and the Politics of Socioeconomic Critique.’ In Alex Tickell ed., South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.119-138.