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Nudrat Kamal
Nudrat Kamal is a PhD candidate of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she taught comparative literature and writing in Karachi. Her research and teaching focuses on South Asian literatures in Urdu, Hindi and English, particularly in the intersections of literary and print history, science fiction studies, gender and sexuality studies, and environmental humanities. Her writings on literature, film and television, and culture have been published in Dawn, The Express Tribune, and Newsline.