Francesca Chubb-Confer

Biography

Francesca Chubb-Confer's research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fields of religious studies and comparative literature to advance the study of Islamic literary and poetic traditions, particularly in South Asia and the Persianate world. With interests in Sufism, poetry, religion and colonialism, and translation, her current book project focuses on Muhammad Iqbal, the early 20th-century reformer, philosopher, and poet, and analyzes how the relationship between form and content in his work navigates between classical Islamic tradition and the demands of colonial modernity. Francesca's published work has appeared in the International Journal of Islam in Asia; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; and Afghanistan.