Christine Everaert portrait
  • 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
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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