PhD Student, Texts & Technology | University of Central Florida
Investigating who gets to make meaning—and how we reclaim that power.
My work examines decolonial aesthetics and technological sovereignty across occupied territories, with particular focus on Kashmir and Northern Ireland. I study how communities use visual and digital culture to resist dominant narratives, and how Western academic methodologies position themselves as innovations while obscuring longer global traditions.
Current Projects:
- Comparative analysis of cultural production under occupation
- Anti-extractive methodologies for community-engaged scholarship
I build things that ask questions about language, algorithms, and who controls them.
Francoism — A 100,000-word experimental "non-film" in novelized form, generated through dual-track algorithmic processes: Markov chain text generation trained on 83+ Jess Franco film subtitles, and procedural image analysis producing ekphrastic prose via OpenCV. No LLMs, no neural networks—rule-based systems that channel Franco's cut-and-paste aesthetic through computational processes. Clause-level style blending across Duras, Robbe-Grillet, and Beckett. [In progress]
Poetry Synthesizer — A handheld device using Raspberry Pi, Markov chains, and thermal printing to generate and physically output constraint-based poetry. Open hardware as democratic technology; text generation as critique of corporate algorithmic control.
The code here reflects my commitment to Free/Libre Open Source Software principles—not just as practical choice, but as methodological commitment to technological sovereignty. These projects explicitly reject generative AI in favor of procedural, rule-based systems where human curation of lexicons and constraints constitutes the authorial intervention.
- "Constraining Generativity: Rethinking Experimental Literary Futures" — ELO 2025, Toronto
- "Seen, Not Consumed: Decolonial Aesthetics and Refusing Dominant Framing" — South Asia Research Colloquium, Kolkata 2025
- Contributions to Johnson's Dictionary Online (XML/TEI)