fsiddiqi@gitam.edu
Dr Fuzail Asar Siddiqi completed his MPhil and PhD from the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of interest are the modernist Urdu short story and South Asian literatures in English and in translation. He is also a professionally trained academic copyeditor and has worked with Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
Research Publications
- • ‘The Failure of Secular Publics and the Rise of the Jewish Religious Public in Nathan Englander’s For the Relief of Unbearable Urges’. In Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations, edited by Navras J. Aafreedi and Priya Singh, pp. 241-251. New York and London: Routledge, 2021.
- • ‘Alternate Histories as Post-Truth? Reading Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle’. IACLALS Journal #5, pp. 122-126. Editor M. Asaduddin. 2019.
- • ‘Narrating Fragmentation: Violence and Pakistan in Bilal Tanweer’s The Scatter Here Is Too Great’. IACLALS Journal #6, 136-143. Editor M. Asaduddin. 2020.
- • ‘Naiyer Masud’s Seemiya (The Occult): Introducing the Strange and the Uncanny to Urdu Literature’, Indian Literature 329 (Sahitya Akademi), pp. 117-126. Editor Sukrita Paul Kumar, 2023.
- • ‘Banned Literature: Angaaray (1932) and the Vision for Independent India’. Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Vol. 16, 2023, 106-117. UGC-Care Journal. http://inet.vidyasagar.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/6784
Authored Books
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Contemporary Urdu Short Stories from Kolkata. Translated by Shams Afif Siddiqi. Edited by Shams Afif Siddiqi and Fuzail Asar Siddiqi (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2023)
