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  • Affiliated Faculty Middle East Center, Middle East Studies Program
  • Section Head / Coordinator of the Hindi, Urdu and South Asian Studies Program , Asian Studies Program
  • Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures

Research Summary

My research focuses on the relation between the Hindu and Muslim community and how both communities are depicted in Hindi and Urdu short story literature. I also study the differences between Hindi and Urdu versions of the same stories, both linguistically and stylistically. The approach of my research is highly cross-disciplinary and of interest to scholars of (socio)linguistics, literature, history and sociology of South Asia.

Education

  • Ph.D. , Oriental Languages and Cultures: Indology, Ghent University Belgium. Project: Lost (and added) in translation. Tracing the boundaries between Hindi and Urdu. An analysis of a corpus of short stories from the 20th century
  • Licentiate (M.A.), Oriental Languages and Cultures: Indology , Ghent University Belgium. Project: An invitation to the Modern Hindi Short Story: selection of short stories by Bhagavati Caran Varma
  • Candidate (B.A.) , Oriental Languages and Cultures: Indology , Ghent University Belgium
  • Candidate (B.A., obtained two years in one), Colonial History , Ghent University Belgium
  • Ph.D., Ph.D., Ghent University - Belgium. Project: Tracing the boundaries between Hindi and Urdu. An analysis of a corpus of short stories from the 20th century