PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
MA in Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
BA in English Literature, St. Stephen’s College, India

Dr. Maryam Fatima joined AUD in Fall 2025 as Assistant Professor of English. She is a scholar of postcolonial studies and world literature within the broader discipline of Comparative Literature. She researches and teaches literature and cultural production in English, Urdu-Hindi, and Arabic from the 19^th century onwards.

She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her doctoral work has been supported by a Mellon-Sawyer dissertation fellowship as well as fellowships from the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute and the Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her first book project, based on her dissertation,Partitions and Palimpsests: Transgressions of Form and Territory in Postcolonial Urdu and Arabic Writing, advances a transnational framework for the study of partition literature in Urdu, Anglophone, and Arabic literatures.

She is also a translator, working across Urdu and English.

Recent Publications:

• “Decolonizing Novelistic Conventions: Readings from the Non-Europhone South.” In Decolonial Reconstellations: Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place, edited by Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi, and Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji. Routledge, 2025. [DOI: 10.4324/9781003517511-7]
• “Recuperating the ‘Literature’ in Political Literature: A new Lotus for a new World.” In The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020, edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Ivana Perica. Bloomsbury Publications, 2024. [https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/political-uses-of-literature-9781501399329/]
• [Co-edited with Alexander Jabbari and Mehtap Ozdemir] “The Late Persianate World: Transregional Connections and the Question of Language.” Philological Encounters 8 (2023): 111-120. [DOI:10.1163/24519197-12340086]
• [Co-authored with Andrew Amstutz] “Fashioning a Persianate Offspring for a Modern India: The Case of Urdu, 1890-1940s.” Philological Encounters 8 (2023): 176-205. [DOI:10.1163/24519197-bja10045]
• “Institutionalizing Afro-Asianism: The (Dis)contents of Soviet-Third World Cultural Politics.” Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 3 (2022): 447-467. [https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.59.3.0447]
• “Debating Caliphs and Kings in the 20th century: ʿAbd ul-Ḥalīm Sharar’s Essays on Empire and Governance.” Journal of Urdu Studies 3 (2022): 7-27. [DOI:10.1163/26659050-12340039]