Guest Contributor, South Asian Studies
Saniya Irfan completed her Masters in Literature from the esteemed Department of English at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. At present, she is a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Saniya is interested in Urdu literary traditions, Performance Aesthetics, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics and Islamic political history and thought. She was also a Summer Research Project fellow at Michigan State University and a participant in the SPARC project titled, “Digital Apprehensions of Indian Poetics,” sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Indian government, at Jamia Millia Islamia. Saniya works in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a particular emphasis on Urdu literary texts.
Outside of academia, she enjoys exercising French language lessons or visiting indoor wall-climbing zones. Saniya is eager to connect with researchers who engage in the field of Digital Humanities in the Indian subcontinent, particularly those who work with the analysis of literary texts in non-European languages and literature using NLP tools.
✉️ They can be contacted at: huz228239@iitd.ac.in / sin22197@gmail.com
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