She has been engaged in teaching English literature to undergraduates since 2001. Before she started teaching, she was involved with Katha (a Delhi based NGO) where she had the opportunity to interact with underprivileged women and children besides doing editorial work. She has also won the Katha award for translation of an Urdu short story. She is currently pursuing research on the issue of disguise in the travel writings of Sir Richard Francis Burton and has presented papers in Oxford and Berlin on the same.