Jennifer Dubrow

Prof. Jennifer Dubrow is an Associate Professor of Urdu at the University of Washington's Department of Asian Languages & Literature. Her affiliations include adjunct roles in English, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Textual and Digital Studies, and the South Asian Studies Program. She earned a Ph.D. (2018) and M.A. (20XX) in South Asian Languages from the University of Chicago, preceded by a B.A. in Middle East and Asian Languages from Columbia University. Her research explores 19th-21st century Urdu literary culture, focusing on modernism, print technology's impact, and Progressive writers' aesthetics-politics nexus.

Her landmark book Cosmopolitan Dreams (2018) redefined understandings of Urdu's colonial-era cosmopolitanism. Current projects include Partitioned Forms, examining Urdu modernism through Progressive writers like Manto and Chander. Supported by grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies and Pakistan Studies, her work bridges literary criticism and historical materialism.

Teaching emphasizes South Asian modernist literature, book history, and Urdu language. Courses include "Modern Literature of South Asia" and a new undergraduate offering on "Partition Literature and Film." She regularly contributes to interdisciplinary research initiatives like the Bilingual and Biliteracy Research Lab and the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project.