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|b Dept. of English, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario (2013); Visiting Assistant Professor of Cultural Theory in the Department of Religion and Culture, received his Honours B.A. (High Distinction) from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Queen’s University. His research and teaching interests are, he hopes, equal-parts multidisciplinary and grounded: literary modernism; LGBTQ studies; history of theory and criticism (esp. aesthetics, ethics, and deconstruction); European intellectual history (esp. from Kant to poststructuralism); and transnational cultural studies, with special attention to postcolonial theory, violence, and jurisprudence in the South Asian Diaspora after 1947. As foci, secularism, philosophy of religion, and political theology suture Dr. Soni’s approaches to and across these fields. He is at work on two projects. The first, based on his dissertation, is tentatively titled Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis as Disciplinary Critique from Immanuel Kant to Modernist Literature. The second, building on his research in transnational cultural studies, is tentatively titled Event Horizons: Post-Secular Violence and Specters of Partition in South Asian Diaspora, Literature, and Jurisprudence. Excerpts from both book projects are available in article form in journals such as Religion and the Arts, Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
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