Seton Uhlhorn is a PhD candidate in the Department of South Asian Studies, specializing in classical Urdu literature with particular interest in form, genre, and performance. Seton’s research revisits aspects of literary history often overlooked or misrepresented during the late colonial period, the effects of which continue to permeate contemporary discussions of Urdu literature. To this end, Seton’s dissertation focuses on the work of late eighteenth-century poet-grammarian Insha Allah Khan Insha and the poetics of rozmurrah (the everyday, the language of daily discourse, realia).
A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Seton was part of the final cohort of the five-year Hindi-Urdu flagship program in 2019. Seton has been fortunate to spend a large portion of time in India over the years with the support of grants and fellowships by LMSAI, the Harvard Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Fulbright-Nehru, Boren, Foreign Language and Area Studies, and the American Institute of Indian Studies, which enabled extended research and residence in Srinagar, Delhi, Lucknow, and Jaipur. Currently, Seton teaches Hindi-Urdu as an instructional fellow in the Department of South Asian Studies and serves as co-founder and co-organizer of the South Asian Studies Colloquium.
