Biography & CV

Curriculum Vitae

Born June 3, 1936 in Bara Banki (India); naturalized American citizen.

Education: M.A. (Urdu), Lucknow University, Lucknow, 1955.
M.A. (Linguistics), University of California, Berkeley, 1961.

Consultant, Hindi-Urdu Program, University of Minnesota, 1961-62.
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1962-63.
Instructor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1963-68.
Visiting Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 1964.
Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1968-71.
Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 1968.
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Summer 1970.
Visiting Associate Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India), 1971-72.
Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1971-98.
Chairman, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1985-91.
Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1998-2001.

Service to the Profession

Consultant to:

• Asian Literature Program of the Asia Society, New York City
• Princeton University Press
• University of Chicago Press
• University of California Press
• Feminist Press
• Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
• National Endowment for the Humanities

Member of:

• South Asia Regional Council, Association for Asian Studies (1976–79)
• Committee on Scholars of Asian Descent, Association for Asian Studies (1981–84)
• South Asia Regional Council, Association for Asian Studies (1990–93)
• Advisory Committee, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan, University of California, Berkeley (1975– )
• Board of Trustees, America-Pakistan Research Organization (1989–93)
• Board of Trustees, American Institute of Pakistan Studies (1993–95)