John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study

An M.Phil. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Ifrah has research Interests in colonial and postcolonial studies, literary and cultural theory, studies in the 20th-century and contemporary novel.  She is interested in less-sovereign states of the self—in the ways that forms of subjectivity are related to ethical and political thought. She finds literary fiction, contemporary philosophy, and studies of religion as helpful sources for thinking through these questions.