About Me

I specialize in critical and cultural studies of digital communities and media practices at the crossroads of technology, society and identity, particularly within fandom, intimacy, gender and sexuality. I am currently pursuing an MSc in Digital Humanities at KU Leuven, Belgium. I hold an MA in Cultural Studies (Summa Cum Laude) from KU Leuven and a BA (Hons.) in Literature and Global Arts from Krea University, India.

My scholarly work engages with media studies and digital humanities, combining qualitative and computational approaches to media texts and communal practices. I am particularly interested in how fans participate, socialize, and nurture intimacies in algorithmically governed media environments, with a strong emphasis on feminist and queer perspectives. My research is also informed by concepts and methodological orientations from digital memory studies and affect theory to examine how memory and emotions today have become intimately entangled with the inhabitants of platformized digital spaces.

For my ongoing thesis, I am exploring algorithmic intimacies and the “synthetic afterlives” of fanfiction through emerging fan roleplaying practices with GenAI character chatbots, using digital ethnography alongside computational methods such as natural language processing and machine learning.

I have presented my work in academic contexts across India, Belgium, London and Sweden. Alongside my research, I enjoy working as a programmer and creative, focused on designing accessible and interactive forms of scholarly communication.