School of Arts and Sciences
Year of Joining: 2022
Dissertation Advisor: Safwan Amir
Research Interests: Urdu Literary Culture, History of Early Modern India, Islam and South Asia
My work focuses on the intersection of literature, community formation, and religion in South Asian Islam, examining it from a historical perspective. My current research project seeks to explore the role of the Urdu Marsiya tradition in shaping Shi'a subjectivity in North India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.