• PHD Indian Languages and Literatures.
Dissertation: “A Critical Study of Poetic Drama in Urdu.”
, Jawaharlal Nehru University 1996
World Area Of Focus:
• Middle East 10%-24% • South Asia 75%-99%
Languages:
• Braj Bhasha (native/bilingual proficiency) • Hindi (native/bilingual proficiency) • Panjabi, Eastern (limited working proficiency) • Panjabi, Western (limited working proficiency) • Sanskrit (limited working proficiency) • Urdu (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Poetic drama and musical theater in 19th and 20th century South Asia. Popular culture and popular literature in Urdu. Urdu film and literature magazines. The history of Indian and Pakistani cinema. Urdu and Hindi poetry and poetics. Teaching through technology.
Relevant Experience:
• 2006-2018 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies.
Direct South Asian Studies program. Teach media, literature, and advanced Hindi-Urdu language. Direct Study Abroad in India program.
• 2004-2006 North Carolina State University.
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
• 1995-1998 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies.
• 1995-2004 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Assistant Professor / Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Distinctions:
• 2017-2017 Award for service to Urdu, West Bengal Urdu Academy, Kolkata, India. Award for service to Urdu, Aiwan-e Urdu, Bhopal, India.
• 2017-2017 Featured in Remarkable Journeys PBS documentary on Indians in North Carolina. • 2013-2015 Carolina Performing Arts Curatorial Fellowship. • 2011-2011 UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities Fellowship
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
2
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ASIA 231 Bollywood Cinema • ASIA 59 First Year Seminar: Media Masala • HNUR 409 Sex and Social Justice in South Asia
Recent Publications:
• 2018 Discovered Women: Gender and Readership in Shama Magazine. In Progress.
• 2018 Becoming Bollywood: The Transformation of the Parsi Theater after 1900. In Progress.
• 2015 Chapter: ”Race in Bollywood: Dalits/Adivasis/Afro-Americans in Indian Cinema.” Dalit Literature: Reading Resistance. Saroj Kumar Mahananda ed. 2015. New Delhi: Sangharsh Publication. Pp. 19-36.
• 2011 Article: “Mirzā Hādi Ruswā’s Laila Majnūn”in Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 2011, Vol. 33, pp. 208-224.
• 2010 Article: “Two Anarkalis: Saghar Nizami’s Dream Drama and the Deconstruction of the Parsi Theatre.” in Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 32 (2010), pp. 178-94
• 2006 The Court of Indra and the Rebirth of North Indian Drama, Delhi: Anjuman-e Taraqqi Urdu, 2006.
• 2002 “Amanat’s Indar Sabha and Nineteenth century constructions of Indian cultural identity” in Rethinking Early Modern India, ed. Richard Barnett, pp. 289-323, New Delhi: Manohar, 2002.
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