I am a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, culture, and colonialism. My work looks at culinary and alimentary representations in literatures of British India. I am particularly interested in the relationship between foodways and colonial genres as they emerge and cohere within global and local economies of race, caste, gender, labor, and ecology. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. I received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida.

My research has appeared or is forthcoming in ELH, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies, Victorian Review, Global Food History, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victoriographies, and CineJ Cinema Journal.

My work has received awards from the Midwest Victorian Studies Association, the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, the South Atlantic MLA, the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago, and the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere at the University of Florida.

I welcome research, pedagogical, and community collaborations. The best way to reach me is through email: msapui@umich.edu.

My preferred pronouns are she/her.