Research Interests: 19th-century Urdu literature; history of the novel; print culture and book history in South Asia.

Current Research Projects: The Age of Print: Readers and Writers in the Urdu Cosmopolis, book manuscript on nineteenth-century Urdu literature and print culture in South Asia (in progress). Also, an article on revisions to Fasana-e Azad, the first Urdu novel, in the public sphere of print.