I teach English at The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata, with courses spanning gender, caste, partition, and colonialism. Previously with the West Bengal Education Service, I taught at Haldia Government College and at Bethune College. I hold a BA in English Honours (Presidency College, Calcutta University) and an MA in English (Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad). I also hold an MPhil in English Literature and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

My research interests include Body Studies, Migration Studies, Dalit Studies, Gender, and Popular Culture. Most of my work deals with gender and embodiment, in their various manifestations. From fat bodies that are crucial for the transformation of welfare regime into a capitalist one, by turning health into the individual's responsibility, to mobile bodies that through their very marginality and movement uncover the fallacies of citizenship and the symbiotic relationship between bodies and cities--much of my recent research and public engagements have explored the ways in which embodiment shapes social and political reality.

Internationally, I have participated in the US State Department's International Visitors Leadership Program on refugee and migrant issues in the Asia Pacific (2020), the Kultur Symposium in Weimar (2023), and was invited by the German Federal Foreign Ministry to explore skilled immigration pathways (2025). I founded the South Asia Network for Communication, Displacement and Migration (2022-23). In 2025, I produced my documentary short Friends of Jilipibala, now on the international film festival circuit, and in 2026 curated Moving to the City, an interdisciplinary programme for Women's History Month.