Current Research Projects:

• Edition and translation of selected works by Nagridas, alias Savant Singh of Kishangarh (1699-1764).Confluence of medieval Hindi devotional and Indo-Persian and Rajasthani court idiom (sponsored by the Guggenheim Fellowship).
• Revisiting the birth of Urdu: the reception of "the father of Urdu," Vali, in eighteenth-century Delhi salons, an interdisciplinary project with Purnima Dhavan (History, UW) (sponsored by a Simpson Cross Disciplinary Conversations grant).
• An edited volume on Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity. to be published from Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz with Monika Horstmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany).