My research and writing explore the material histories of language, knowledge, and culture. I am interested in excavating the global processes of transmission, reception, and reproduction by which dominant forms and ideas acquire legibility and popular currency—across and within local geographies, written cultures, and discursive traditions.

I engage with a broad set of literary forms, genres, and styles from the eighteenth century through the present. My research brings together a wide range in textual materials from the annals of scholarly, missionary, colonial, and national archives, and my scholarship applies the critical methods of philology to illuminate the material relationships between language and power.