Associate Professor
Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D. South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2011
M.A. South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
B.A. Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Music, Columbia University
Research Interests: modern Urdu literature; history of the novel; print culture and book history in South Asia.
Current Research Projects: My first book, Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia, is coming out with the University of Hawai'i Press in 2018. My new project is on Urdu modernism and the work of Hindi and Urdu writers associated with the Progressive Writers' Movement.