• French (limited working proficiency) • Hindi (native/bilingual proficiency) • Russian (limited working proficiency) • Urdu (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Comparative musicology; South Asia’s performing arts, culture, music, film, and literature; language pedagogy.
Relevant Experience:
• Outreach Coordinator, N.C. Center for South Asia Studies (1996-2009);
Project Manager, “Darvazeh: A Door Into Urdu,” U.S. Department of Education Grant (1999-2009).
Annual research and teaching trips to India and Pakistan (1992-2009)
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Co-host of “Geet Bazaar,” weekly two-hour South Asian music radio program, WKNC
88.1 FM (2001-)
Relevant Courses Taught:
• Music of South Asia, Hindi-Urdu (Elementary to Advanced Hindi-Urdu); Introduction to Hindi Script (Devanagari) and Introduction to Urdu Script (Nastaliq)
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Master's Thesis: THE MUSICAL LANGUAGE OF INDIAN FILM SONG IN THE 1940s (ProQuest)
• 2014 “Virtual Vinaya: Indian Music Pedagogy in the Triangle Region of North Carolina,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 14, 2014
• 2013 “Race in Bollywood”, Conference on Dalit Literature and Historiography, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, December 18-20, 2013
• 2013 Book review of Tejaswani Ganti, Producing Bollywood, in The Southeast Review of Asian Studies, vol. 35, 2013
• 2012 “Pakistan through Western Eyes,” invited speaker at Seminar hosted by the Department of English, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 8, 2012
• 2012 “Teaching Toba Tek Singh” Conference on Sa’adat Hasan Manto: Life and Art, Maler Kotlah, Punjab, India, June 6, 2012
• 2012 “What is Pakistani Music” at the International Conference on Pakistan, South Asia, and Muslim Societies, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 6-7, 2012
• 2012 “Teaching Pakistani Music” at the Conference on Pakistan and Muslim Societies, Foreman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan, March 11-12, 2012
• 2012 “Dramatic Reincarnations: the Rebirth of the Urdu Theater in the Indian Film Industry”, 36th Annual Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, March 29-31, 2012
• 2011 “Globalization, Postmodernism, and World Music: the case of Hindi film songs”, Southeast Region Association of Asian Studies Conference, Spring, 2011
• 2011 “The Triumph of Tradition: the decline and fall of the modern woman in South Asian Cinema” Association of Asian Studies annual conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2011
• 2010 The Movie Mujrā: the Trope of the Courtesan in Urdu-Hindi Film” in The Southeast Review of Asian Studies, volume 32 (2010), pp. 120-8.
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