Fauzia Farooqui teaches Hindi, Urdu, and South Asian Studies courses at Princeton University. Her academic interests are Hindi-Urdu, South Asian literature, literary criticism, Indian culture and gender studies. Both her research and teaching projects involve inter-disciplinary approaches. Her literature courses often explore connections between literary texts or trends and their socio-political contexts. Her gender studies courses investigate gender-based experiences and issues in South Asia against the backdrop of its cultural and political history. As an Indian cultural activist, she is passionate about preserving and promoting various genres of Indian art and literature, particularly the rich oral literary traditions of India. Funded through a research grant by Princeton’s M. S. Chaddha Center for Global India, Fauzia is currently working on, The Taaoos Chaman Project, a digital humanities project that aims to archive and study oral literary traditions of the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, India. She is also working on a book chapter for the National Epics Project of the Oxford University Press.

Fauzia’s publications include a monograph on Urdu prose poetry and parallel introductory Hindi and Urdu textbooks, Beginning Hindi and Beginning Urdu, published by Georgetown University Press. She has also published various pieces of original poetry, short stories, and literary criticism articles in leading literary journals in India and Pakistan. Prior to joining Princeton, she taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from Lucknow University, India.