Dr Soofia Siddique is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She obtained a PhD in the Languages and Cultures of South Asia from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London. Her research interests are late nineteenth and early twentieth century literary cultures and their interface with historiography and politics, especially with reference to English and Urdu discourses. More broadly, she is interested in questions of postcoloniality, gender, genre, and the formation of modern publicity. Dr Siddique was a recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship for her PhD studies (2008-2012), and subsequently of the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität Berlin (2016-2017). She has also had research stints at the Max Plank Institute for Human Development, Berlin, and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.