Adam Dhalla is a student of English and Mathematics at Rice University. Currently, he writes fiction that often engages with the knot of commerce, nature, and race that lies at the heart of his native western Canada. 

Some of his research interests dovetail with his fiction. For instance, he is interested in Professor Judith Brunton’s research on the ways in which spiritualism is embedded in the seemingly scientific practice of resource extraction in North America; and is currently working with her as a research assistant. His other interests are more wide-ranging; he has spent much time with the early modern philosophers (Descartes through Kant) and is interested in how these philosophies appear in English literature of the same period.

Research Interests: early modern poetry & philosophy, representation of mathematics in literature, critical & social theory, resource extraction in the cultural imagination, the short story