Siddiqua Fatima (Virji)


Faculty Advisor: Nazia Akhtar
Research Areas: Modern Urdu Literature; Khoja Diaspora; Philosophy of the Self; Practices of Translation
Email: siddiqua.fatima@research.iiit.ac.in
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I completed my master's degree in Comparative Literature from EFLU, Hyderabad. Before starting my PhD journey, I worked as the Coordinator for the Hyderabad Literary Festival for two years, freelancing as a writer for the Times of India in my free time. I enjoy reading different genres of literature in English, Urdu and Hindi. I recently published English translations of Urdu poetry in the peer-reviewed journal PR&TA (Practice, Research and Tangential Activities).

Current Research

Research Statement: Influence of Western Thought in Early Modern Urdu Literature.

Select Publications

  • Encounters and Entanglements / (Issue 3) PR&TA Journal
    August 2023, Singapore
    Published translated Urdu poetry - “Bring the Pain of Hunger Pangs to Poetry” and “Come Let’s Tell the Truth” - https://www.pratajournal.com/translating-truth-and-hunger
  • Resilient Societies (ECR Symposium 2022)/ DAAD India
    September 2022, Online
    Presented the paper “Matsyagandhi – The Tribal Fisherfolk’s Plight and Might in the Face Of Development and Globalisation”
  • Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins / XXIII Congress of the ICLA
    July 2022, Georgia (Hybrid)
    Presented the paper “Inter-literary Influence: Goethe in Iqbal”, and chaired a session on “Words and Images Crossing Literary and Critical Borders”, also selected for publication (expected by the end of 2023).
  • Peer-Reviewed Bilingual Research Journal Urdu Studies, Issue 3 / Jai Prakash University
    November 2021, India
    Published the paper “Encountering Difference in Krishan Chander’s Darwaze Khol Do”
  • National Conference on Contextualizing Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Culture and Translation / GITAM
    January 2020, Hyderabad
    Presented and published the paper “Looking at the Diaspora in Miyah Poetry” (https://www.doi.org/10.46623/tt/2022.si2)