Amara Ali is a Lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. Her research centers on the interplay of Urdu, Hindi, and Kashmiri literary traditions and Islam in South Asia. Her doctoral dissertation provides a literary examination of the Kashmiri marsiya (an elegiac poem), analyzing how this local form articulates a unique Kashmiri aesthetic, while remaining in critical dialogue with the broader Urdu, Persian, and Arabic literary traditions. Earlier, she completed her master's studies at the University of Cambridge, focusing on the celebrated Urdu poets Mirza Ghalib and Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
