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Contact Information
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| **e-mail:**
pue@msu.edu
**twitter:**
@seanpue
**github:**
seanpue
| **address:**
B-269 Wells Hall, 619 Red Cedar Road, East Lansing, MI 48824 U.S.A.
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Academic Appointments
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| **2023-**
Professor, Michigan State University
| Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Culture
| Core Faculty, Global Studies in Arts and Humanities
| **2014–2023**
Associate Professor, Michigan State University
**2008–14**
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
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Administrative Appointments
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| **2015–6**
Director of Digital Humanities, Michigan State University
| College of Arts and Letters
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Research Appointments
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| **2017–18**
Visiting Scholar, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
| **2009–**
Associate Research Scholar in Hindi and Urdu Literature and Studies, Columbia University
| Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
| **2006–8**
Research Associate, University of Chicago
| South Asia Language Resource Center
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Education
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| **2007**
Ph.D., Columbia University
| Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature and Society
| Title: “The Desert of Continuity: N. M. Rashed, Modernism, and Urdu Poetry”
| **2002**
M. Phil., Columbia University
| Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature and Society
| **2001**
M.A., Columbia University
| Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
| **1997**
B.A., University of California
| Religious Studies, South and South East Asian Studies
| Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
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Grants and Fellowships
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**2019-2022**
International Principal Investigator for "Digital Apprehensions of Poetics,"
Scheme for the Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Grant,
Ministry of Higher Education, Government of India,
awarded to Principal Investigator Professor Nishat Zaidi, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia (72,000,000 INR)
**2016-21**
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship
("Publics of Sound:
Data-Rich Analysis for Understanding the Politics of Poetic Innovation
in Modern South Asia", $213,000)
**2021**
MSU Asian Studies Center Koo Endowment Fellowship
**2014**
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, International Travel Award
**2012-3**
MSU College of Arts and Letters Faculty Learning Community Grant,
“Digital Humanities,” with Danielle DeVoss
**2012**
MSU College of Arts and Letters Research Award,
“South Asian Digital Literary Services”
**2012**
MSU External Connections Grant (with Frances Pritchett, Columbia University)
**2012**
MSU Center for Language Teaching Advancement Research Grant,
“Ghazals on the Go: Teaching the Culture of Urdu Poetry”
**2011**
American Institute of Pakistan Studies
Short Term Research and Lecturing Fellowship
(“N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry” in Lahore and Islamabad)
**2010**
MSU College of Arts and Letters “Think Tank” Curriculum Development Grant,
“Global Publics”
**2010**
“Hindi-Urdu Blended Teaching Resources,”
South Asian Language Resource Center Pedagogical Resources Grant ($25,000)
**2009** MSU Global Studies in the Arts and the Arts and Humanities Research Grant
**2009** MSU Blended Teaching Community Research Grant
**2006**
“Digital Urdu Ghazal Reader,”
South Asian Language Resource Center Pedagogical Resources Grant ($16,800)
**2005-6**
FLAS Fellowship (Urdu), Columbia University
**2004**
“Mir in Cyberspace,”
Center for Advanced Research in Language Acquisition Mini-Grant ($3000)
**2003**
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (India)
**2003**
American Institute of Pakistan Studies Dissertation Research Grant (Unactivated)
**1998-2005**
Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University
**2001**
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship (London, UK)
**2000**
FLAS Summer Fellowship (Punjabi in Chandigarh, India), Columbia University
**1997-8**
Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan Fellowship (Lahore)
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Publications
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Books
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Nishat Zaidi and A. Sean Pue, ed., *Digital Humanities and Literary Cultures in India*.
Routledge, 2023.
A. Sean Pue, Nishat Zaidi, and Mohd. Aqib, *Dreaming of the Digital Divan:
Computational Approaches to Poetry in Indian Languages.* Bloomsbury, 2022.
A. Sean Pue, *I Too Have Some Dreams: N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry*.
University of California Press, 2014.
Articles and Conference Proceedings
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**2022**
Zahra Rizvi, Rohan Chauhan, A. Sean Pue, and Nishat Zaidi, "Minimal Computing for Indian Poetics." *Digital Humanities Quarterly*, 2022.
**2019**
“Graph Transliterator: A graph-based transliteration tool.” *Journal of Open Source Software* 4(44), 1717,
`DOI: 10.21105/joss.0171 `_.
**2019**
“Acoustic Traces of Poetry in South Asia.” *South Asia Review* 40.3 (2019), 221–236,
`DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2019.1599561 `_.
**2018**
A. Sean Pue and Scott Nelson.
“Marking Poetic Time: Building and Annotating a Hindi-Urdu Poetry Corpus for Computational Humanities Research.”
*Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH-2)*, 171-180.
.. Edited by Andrew U. Frank, Christine Ivanovic, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti, Caroline Sporleder.
.. volume 1, series: Gerastree Proceedings
.. 978-3-901716-43-0.
**2013**
“Rethinking Modernism and Progressivism in Urdu Poetry.”
*Pakistaniaat* 5.1 (2013): 1-15.
**2012**
“Ephemeral Asia: N. M. Rashed’s *A Stranger in Iran*.”
*Comparative Literature* 64.1 (2012): 73-92.
**2011**
“In the Mirror of Ghalib: Postcolonial Reflections on Indo-Muslim Selfhood.”
*Indian Economic and Social History Review* 48.4 (October-December 2011), 571-592.
**2011**
“N. M. Rashed and Faiz Ahmed Faiz: A Comparative Analysis.”
*Bunyaad: Journal of Urdu Studies* 2 (2011), 3-18.
**2010**
“Time is God: Temporality in Pakistani Modernism.”
*Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies* 16.1 (2009), 102-116.
**2008**
“Digital Encoding of South Asian Languages: A Contemporary Guide to Unicode and Fonts.”
*South Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology* 1 (2008).
**2008**
“Web-Browser Extensions for South Asia Language Classrooms.”
*South Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology* 1 (2008).
Book Chapters
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**2019**
"Introduction to A Stranger in Iran (1957, Pakistan/US), N M Rashed."
In *Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology.* Bloomsbury, 2019.
**2013**
“Faiz Ahmed Faiz and N. M. Rashed: A Comparative Analysis.”
In *Daybreak: Writings on Faiz*,
ed. Yasmeen Hameed.
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2013.
**2010**
“Shibli Nomani.”
In *Nationalism in the Vernacular:
Hindi, Urdu and the Literature of Indian Freedom*,
edited by Shobna Nijhawan,
171–177.
New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2010.
**2008** “Krishan Chandar.”
*The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature*,
edited by Mehr Farooqi, 56–65.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
**2006**
“Poems of Desire.”
In *Men of the Global South*,
edited by Adam Jones,
6–13.
London: Zed Books, 2006.
Book Reviews
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**2021**
Review of *Data Feminism*,
by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein.
*Women's Link* 28.2 (July 2021), 80-81.
**2009**
Review of *A History of Urdu Literature*,
by T. Graham Bailey.
*The Book Review* (February 2009).
**2008**
Review of *Enlightenment in the Colony:
The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture*,
by Aamir R. Mufti.
*Annual of Urdu Studies* 23 (2008): 274-9.
**2005**
Review of *Urdu Texts and Contexts*,
by C. M. Naim.
*Annual of Urdu Studies* 20 (2005): 288-290.
**2000**
Review of *Hali’s Musaddas*,
translated by Christopher Shackle and Javed Majeed.
*Annual of Urdu Studies* 15 (2000): 612-615.
Translations
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**2005** Krishan Chandar, “Irani Pilau.”
*Annual of Urdu Studies* 20 (2005): 203-210.
Software
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**2019-** Graph Transliterator: A graph-based transliteration tool. MIT License.
* Documentation: http://graphtransliterator.readthedocs.io
* Repository: https://github.com/seanpue/graphtransliterator
* PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/graphtransliterator/
* Archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3558365
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Presentations
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Conference Papers, Posters, and Roundtables
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.. Exact dates follow in comments.
**2022**
Zahra Rizvi, Rohan Chauhan, A. Sean Pue, Saniya Irfan, Abdul Rehman, Steven George, Vikalp Kumar, Agniv Ghosh, "Jugaad Digital Poetics:
Decolonial Poetics, Minimal
Computing, and South Asian
Digital Humanities", DH Unbound 22, Association for Computers in the Humanities and Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, Online.
.. 19 May 2022
**2020**
with Zahra Rizvi and Asra Junaid, "Digital Apprehensions of Poetics," Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2020
.. 26 March 2020
**2019**
“Urdu Poetry on the Internet.” Electronic Literature Organization, University College Cork, Ireland.
.. 16 July 2019
**2019**
With Ahmed Atta and Rajiv Ranjan. "Visualizing Poetic Meter in South Asian Languages" (poster). Digital Humanities 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands.
.. 11 July 2019
**2018**
“Building an Urdu-Hindi Poetic Corpus for Computational Humanities Research.” International Conference on Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities? Analytics, Tools, Corpora. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam.
.. 14 December 2018
**2018**
“Miraji and the Politics of Sound in Modernist Urdu-Hindi Poetry.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
.. 11 October 2018
**2018**
“Acoustic Traces of Poetry in South Asia.” Questioning South Asia Conference, Habib University, Karachi.
.. 2 February 2018 (Presented Online; https://habib.edu.pk/questioningsouthasia/)
**2018**
“The Politics of Sound in Modern Hindi/Urdu Poetry.” Digital Humanities Asia, Stanford University.
.. 28 April 2018
**2018**
A. Sean Pue and Scott Nelson. “Marking Poetic Time: Building and Annnotating a Hindi-Urdu Poetry Corpus for Computational Humanities Research.”
Corpus-Based Research in the Humanities (CRH-2), TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.
.. 25 January 2018
**2017**
“Towards a Media Archaeology of the Middlebrow Aesthetics of Urdu Poetry on the Internet.” Urdu and Popular Culture Conference,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
.. 9 September 2017
**2017**
“Textual Encoding of Hindi/Urdu Poetry for Cross-lingual Analysis.”
Digital Humanities Abu Dhabi, New York University Abu Dhabi.
.. 12 April 2017
**2015**
“Using Bioinformatic Algorithms to Analyze Modernist Urdu Poetry.”
Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science, University of Chicago.
.. 14 November 2015
**2015**
“The Village, The City, and the Tavern: Poetic Soundscapes of Majeed Amjad.”
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
.. 23 October 2015
**2015**
“Using Bioinformatic Algorithms to Analyze the Politics of Form in Modernist Urdu Poetry.”
DH 2015: Global Digital Humanities, Sydney.
.. 1 July 2015
**2015**
“Using Bioinformatic Algorithms to Analyze the Politics of Form in Modernist Urdu Poetry.”
HASTAC 2015, Michigan State University.
.. 28 May 2015
**2014**
“N. M. Rashed in New York.”
Annual Conference on South Asia,
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
.. 18 October 2014
**2014**
“Poets in a Muslim Land:
Sufism, Modernity, and Indo-Muslim Artistic Subjectivity.”
Muslim Studies Conference on “Journeys of Practice,”
Michigan State University.
.. 20 March 2014
**2013**
“Translating Rhythm:
Data-Rich Literary Analysis for Understanding the Politics of Literary Form.”
XVI International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory on
“Translation, Comparatism and the Global South,” University of Mysore.
.. 18 December 2013
**2013**
“Free Verse in Urdu: Identity, Influence, and Innovation.”
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
.. 18 October 2013
**2013**
“Bioinformatic Approaches to the Computation of Poetic Meter,”
with Tracy K. Teal and C. Titus Brown.
Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and Digital Humanities, University of Maryland.
.. 12 April 2013
**2013**
“Modernism and Realism in Late Colonial India.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Toronto.
.. 6 April 2013
**2010**
“Desert Wandering: The Modern Landscape of Urdu Poetry.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
.. 4 April 2010
**2010**
“‘Soviet Pantheism’: Modernism and the Critique of Ideology.”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
.. 25 March 2010 (?)
**2009**
“Where is Hasan the Potter Now? A Literary Representation of Failed Artistic Personhood.”
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
.. 2009-10-24
**2009**
“Modernism and Colonial Difference.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Harvard University.
.. 29 March 2009
**2008**
“From a Place of Solitude to a Place of Community: The Desert in Modern Urdu Poetry.”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
.. 04 April 2008 (?)
**2007**
“In the Mirror of Ghalib.”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston.
.. 24 March 2007 (?)
**2006**
“Parallel to the Horizon: Desire and Duration in Pakistani Modernism.”
Horizons: Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, Stanford University.
**2006**
“Distance at Death: N. M. Rashed and the Progressives.”
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
.. 20 October 2006 (?)
**2005**
“*Ham Eshiyai*: Solidarities After Empire.”
Imagining Empire: South Asia Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago.
**2005**
“Partition and National Identity: Urdu Debates on Pakistan’s ‘Fundamental Problem.’”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D. C.
**2005**
“Sheba in Ruins: Urdu Modernism’s Imaginative Geography.”
American Institute of Pakistan Studies Biennial Conference, University of Pennsylvania.
**2005**
“Modernists and Marxists: A False Opposition?”
Siting South Asia: A Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University.
**2005**
“Alternative Geographies: Urdu Translations of Modern Persian Poetry.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Penn State University.
.. Conference Participation Otherwise
.. CIC Digital Humanities Summit 2.0, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
.. April 11-12, 2016
Invited Presentations
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.. Exact dates follow in comments.
**2020**
"From Analog to Digital: A Moderated Discussion with Prof. Sean Pue," Princeton University.
.. 17 September 2020
**2019**
“Acoustic Traces of Poetry in South Asia.” Digital Humanities Forum, University of Chicago.
.. 8 February 2019
**2018**
“Acoustic Traces of Poetry in South Asia.” South Asia Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
.. 12 September 2018
**2018**
“Digital Humanities and Acoustic Traces of Hindi-Urdu Poetry in South Asia.” Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen.
.. 08 May 2018
**2018**
“Acoustic Traces of Hindi-Urdu Poetry.” South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.
.. 04 May 2018
**2017**
“Digital Humanities and Urdu Poetry.” Center for Language Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.
.. 4 December 2017
**2017**
“Digital Humanities and N. M. Rashed” (in Urdu). Government Zamindar Post Graduate College, Gujarat, Pakistan.
.. 30 November 2017
**2017**
“Urdu Poetry on the Internet.” Habib University, Karachi.
.. 23 November 2017
**2017**
“Urdu Poetry on the Internet.” Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.
.. 23 November 2017
**2017**
“Digital Humanities and Hindi/Urdu Poetry.” International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India.
.. 15 September 2017
.. Rethinking Modernism and Progressivism in Urdu Poetry: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and N. M. Rashed
.. Sham-e Faiz, Michigan State University Pakistan Student's Association.
.. 26 March 2017
**2016**
“Textual Encoding of Hindi/Urdu Poetry for Data-Rich Literary Analysis.” Digital Textualities of South Asia Symposium, University of British Columbia.
.. 4 March 2016
**2016**
“Textual Encoding for South Asian Language Pedagogy and Digital Humanities.” CeLTA Professional Development Workshop, Michigan State University.
.. 3 March 2016
**2015**
“Topic Modeling Urdu Poetry.” Digital Arabic & Digital Persian: A Research Workshop, Universität Leipzig (presented online).
.. 17 December 2015
**2015**
“The Digital Divan: Computational Approaches to Urdu Poetry.” First International Urdu Conference, New York University.
.. 16 October 2015
**2015**
“Topic Modeling Urdu Poetry." Locus: Texts Analysis in Humanities and Social Science, Michigan State University.
.. 09 April 2015; Topic Modeling Urdu Poetry; http://digitalhumanities.msu.edu/locus/past/
**2015**
“The Digital Divan: Computational Approaches to Urdu Poetry.”
YCSD Lecture, Habib University, Karachi.
.. 11 February 2015; video: https://vimeo.com/119823748; article:
**2015**
“Digital Humanities.”
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS), Karachi.
.. 10 February 2015
**2015**
“A Punjabi Critique of Sufi Idiom: N. M. Rashed and Urdu Literary Tradition.”
Social Sciences and Arts, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.
.. 9 February 2015; article: www.dawn.com/news/1162564
**2015**
“Mere bhi hain kuch khvab: Conversation with A. Sean Pue and Book Launch: I Too have Some Dreams: N.M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry,” with Asif Farrukhi and Sarah Humayun.
Karachi Literature Festival.
.. 8 February 2015
**2014**
“The Place of Analogy in Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Computing,
or,
What Does Bioinformatics Have to Do with Urdu Poetry?”
Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days, Michigan State University.
.. 24 October 2014; http://vprgs.msu.edu/ci-days/2014/sessions#SeanPue
**2013**
“The Politics of Literary Form: The Poetic Meters of Miraji.”
Contemporary Hindi/Urdu Literature and Arts, Princeton University.
.. 6 December 2013
**2013**
“A Punjabi Critique of Sufi Idiom: N. M. Rashed and Urdu Literary Tradition.”
South Asia Seminar, University of Texas at Austin.
.. 3 October 2013
**2013**
Research Presentation.
Audio Cultures of India: Sound, Science, and History,
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago.
.. 16 September 2013
**2013**
“Temporality and Islam in Urdu Literary Modernism.”
Language and Literatures of the Muslim World,
Muslim Studies Program,
Michigan State University
.. 25 January 2013
**2013**
“Issues in the Digital Humanities for Hindi/Urdu.”
Bharatiya Bhasha Karyakram (Indian Language Programme),
Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
.. 3 January 2013
**2012**
“Ghazals on the Go: Teaching the Culture of Urdu Poetry.”
Center for Language Teaching Advancement,
Professional Development Event,
Michigan State University.
**2012**
“Mobile-Ready Hindi-Urdu Digital Literature Reader.”
South Asian Language Pedagogy Conference, Yale University.
**2011**
“The Mobile Frontier of South Asian Language Pedagogy.”
Looking Through the Languages:
South Asian Language Study for the Liberal Arts Conference,
Yale University.
**2011**
“Hindi, Urdu, and Beyond:
Web-Based Video and Handwriting Widgets for Mobile and Traditional Devices.”
Explorations in Instructional Technology, Michigan State University.
**2011**
“Faiz the Poet.”
Guftugu: Faiz Ahmed Faiz, A Centennial Celebration,
Center for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
**2011**
“N. M. Rashed and Faiz Ahmed Faiz: A Comparative Analysis.”
Faiz Ahmad Faiz Birth Centenary Colloquium,
Lahore University of Management Science.
**2011**
“In the Mirror of Ghalib: Postcolonial Reflections on Indo-Muslim Selfhood.”
Lahore University of Management Science.
**2011**
Response to *The Language of the Gods in the World of Men:
Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India* by Sheldon Pollock.
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Languages: A Global Conversation, University of Michigan.
**2010**
“Dialogue and Truth: An Introduction to Gandhi and His Global Legacy.”
Kapur Endowment Lecture, Michigan State University.
**2010**
“Bridging the Language and Literature Divide:
Textual Encapsulation for South Asian Language Pedagogy and Digital Humanities.”
Teaching South Asia: Language Instruction and Literary Culture, Yale University.
**2010**
“Ephemeral Asia:
N. M. Rashed’s A Stranger in Iran and the Problem of Modernism in Urdu.”
Global Studies Forum, Michigan State University.
**2009**
“Blending Content for South Asian Language Pedagogy,”
with Manan Ahmed.
Two-day Workshop, South Asia Summer Language Institute,
University of Wisconsin, 2009.
**2009**
“Temporality and Difference in Pakistani Modernism.”
South Asia Seminar, University of Chicago.
**2008**
“Temporality in Pakistani Modernism.”
UrduFest: Contemporary and Historical Facets of Urdu and Its Literature,
University of Virginia.
**2006**
“The Problem of the Vulgar.”
Between Popular Culture and State Ideology:
Urdu literature and Urdu Media in Present-day Pakistan,
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum, Heidelberg.
**2003**
“The Buried City: N. M. Rashed and Modern Urdu Poetry.”
Sarai @ Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
Panels Organized
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**2022**
(with Zahra Rizvi),
"Urdu Poetic Keywords" Symposium.
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
**2015**
“Canon, Soundscape, and Subjectivity: Reevaluating Majeed Amjad, the Lost Voice of Urdu Poetic Modernism.”
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
**2013**
“Repositioned Realism.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Toronto
**2010**
“Landscapes of Cultural Production.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
**2010**
“National Culture and Belonging in Pakistan.”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
**2008**
“The Geography of Urdu: Canon, Metaphor, Community.”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
**2007**
“The Modern Ghalib.”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston.
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Prizes
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**2013**
Global Outlook::Digital Humanities Essay Competition,
First Prize,
for “Bioinformatic Approaches to the Computational Analysis of Urdu Poetic Meter,”
with Tracy K. Teal and C. Titus Brown.
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Teaching
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Michigan State University
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AL 340: Digital Humanities Seminar (Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
AL 890: Graduate Digital Humanities Seminar (Spring 15)
ASN 291: Introduction to History and Culture of India and South Asia (Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
ASN 491: Literatures of South Asia: Language, Literature, and Belonging (Spring 2016)
DH 491.1: Data and the Humanities (Spring 2019)
DH 865.1: Digital Humanities Methods Seminar (Spring 2020)
GSAH 200: Questions, Issues, and Debates in Global Studies (Fall 2014)
GSAH 220: Global Espionage: Identity, Intelligence, Power (Fall 2012)
GSAH 230: Encountering Difference: East-West, North South (Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011)
GSAH 311: Partition, Displacement, and Cultural Memory (Fall 2013)
GSAH 312: Global Digital Cultures (Fall 2018, Spring 2021)
GSAH 313: Violence and Power in Global Context (Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2023)
GSAH 314: Race, Gender, and Global Identities (Fall 2022)
GSAH 450: Global Interdisciplinary Studies (Fall 2023)
GSAH 499: Senior Thesis in Global Studies in Arts and Humanities (Spring 2015)
HST 812.1: History in the Digital Age (Fall 2020)
IAH 204.740: Bollywood, Muslims, and India (Fall 2021)
IAH 211B: Bollywood: Film, Visual Culture, and Society in India (Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
IAH 211B: Gandhi’s India in History, Literature, and Film (Spring 2009, Spring 2010)
LL151.2: Basic Hindi I (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2014)
LL152.2 Basic Hindi II (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2013, Spring 2015)
LL251.2: Intermediate Hindi I (Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2013)
LL252.2: Intermediate Hindi II (Spring 2014)
LL251.23: Basic Urdu I (Fall 2018)
LL251.23 Intermediate Urdu (Fall 2021)
LL301.23: High Intermediate Urdu (Fall 2021)
LL401.23: Advanced Urdu I (Fall 2021)
REL345: Religions of South Asia (Fall 2015)
University of Chicago
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Third- and Fourth-Year Hindi-3: Modern Hindi Poetry (Spring 2008)
Third- and Fourth-Year Urdu-1: Urdu Short Story (Autumn 2007)
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Service
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National
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**2022-**
University of Maryland, Open Islamicate Text Initiative Advisory Baord
**2021-**
Association for Asian Studies,
Bernard Cohn Book Prize Committee (chair, 2022-3)
**2018-20**
American Institute of Indian Studies, Digital India Learning Committee (chair)
**2013–16**
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Executive Committee
**2009–17, 2018–2020**
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Board of Trustees
**2016–**
South Asian Muslim Studies Association, Board of Trustees
Michigan State University
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**2018–2022**
University Committee on the Libraries, (chair in 2019-20, 2021-22)
**2021-22**
Global Studies in Arts and Humanities Curriculum and Events Committee
**2018–2019**
Global Studies in Arts and Humanities Advisory Council
**2018–2019**
Asian Studies Center Advisory Board
**2018–21**
Muslim Studies Curriculum Committee
**2015–16**
Global Studies in Arts and Humanities Events Committee
**2013–5**
College Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Letters
**2013–14**
Asian Studies Center Advisory Board
**2012–14**
Global Studies in Arts and Humanities Advisory Committee
**2009–10**
Global Studies in Arts and Humanities Planning Committee
**2009–**
Core Faculty Member, Muslim Studies
**2008-12, 2014–2015**
Global Studies in Arts and Humanities Curriculum Committee
**2008–**
Core Faculty Member, Asian Studies Center
**2008-**
Consulting Faculty Member, Gender in Global Context Center
**2008-13**
Integrated Media/Digital Humanities Steering Committee, College of Arts and Letters
**2008-**
Contractual Core Faculty Member, Global Studies in Arts and Humanities
Journal Editorial Boards
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**2019-**
*Journal of Urdu Studies*
**2011–**
*Bunyaad: Journal of Urdu Studies*
**2013–**
*Sagar: A South Asian Research Journal*
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Languages
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**research:** Hindi, Urdu, Persian
**secondary research:** Bengali, Punjabi, Arabic
**reading:** French, German
**programming:** C/C++, Java, Javascript, Matlab, Perl, PHP, Python, R, XSLT
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