Fatima’s research focuses on the literary nationalism of Muslim, Punjabi writers in early twentieth century India. Engaging with an archive of newspaper reports on the language debates of the time and Punjabi literary texts published in the first three decades of the twentieth century, her research studies the complex interplay of colonial linguistic policies, print markets and the state-patronized literary corpus, and their effect on Punjabi subjectivities.

Dr. Anne Murphy and Dr. John Roosa