Spines of nine-volume series Tafsir-i Na'imi (1970s Pakistan)
Selected Publications
- In Progress: Filmi Punjabi: Language, Identity, and Power in Pakistani Punjabi Cinema. (Book Manuscript)
- Forthcoming: “Books, bunkers, and bibliomigrancy: American foreign policy and South Asian librarianship.” South Asia.
- 2020: “Pakistan Screen Studies: Widening the Frame.” Introduction to Reel Pakistan: A Screen Studies Forum, Vol. 1. With Dr. Zebunnisa Hamid.
- 2019: “We who have been killed on dark paths: Faiz’s internationalism and world literature.” Article in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature, ed. B. Venkat Mani
- 2019. “‘This is London, not Pakistan!’”: Articulations of the diaspora in Pakistani Punjabi film.” Chapter in forthcoming volume on transnationalism in South Asian cinema, eds. Elora Chowdhury and Esha De
- In Press: “Cinematic spaces and linguistic landscapes: Language, orthography, and media consumption in Lahore.” Wide Screen.
- 2017: “Karachi Weds Lahore: The performance of ethnolinguistic identities in Pakistani TV comedy.” Pragmatics and Society 8(1).
- 2016: “Uncivilized language and aesthetic exclusion: Language, power, and film production in Pakistan.” PhD Dissertation.
- 2016: "'A camera from the time of the British: Film technologies and aesthetic exclusion in Pakistani cinema." Screen 57(4).
- 2016: “Filmmaking Practices in Pakistan.” In Cinema and Society, ed. Ali Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmad. Karachi: Oxford University Press. Photo essay.
- 2015: "Working Class Zombies and Men in Burqas: The Terrorizing Specter of Nostalgia in Omar Ali Khan’s Ziabahkhana." Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies 5(2).
- 2014: "Language ideologies and verbal art in Pakistani cinema: the Punjabi baṛhak." Texas Linguistic Forum (Vol. 57).
- 2013: An evening at Evernew
- 2011: "Half-drawn arrows of meaning: a phenomenological approach to ambiguity and semantics in the Urdu ghazal." MA Report.
- 2010: In defence of Maula Jat
- 2010: Mirrored lives, mirrored work
Media Projects
- 2015: Photo exhibit: Film Technologies in Pakistan. Displayed at UT's New Directions in Anthropology conference (April 2015).
- 2010: Mujra. Experimental video project from Dr. Craig Campbell's graduate seminar "Intermedia and Aesthetics." Download metacommentary.