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 between local geographies, written cultures, and discursive traditions.

I engage with a broad set of literary forms, genres, and styles from the late-seventeenth century through the present. My research is guided by philological approaches to the history of ideas and brings together a wide range of texts and materials from the annals of literary, missionary, national, and colonial archives.