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Professor
Muhammad Memon

Ph.D. University of California-Los Angeles, 1971

Office: 1246 Van Hise Hall
Phone: 608/262-3418

E-mail: mumemon@facstaff.wisc.edu

Muhammad Memon
 
Specialties/Research Interests: Islamic Studies; Modern Urdu Literature (fiction).
 
Current Projects: The Annual of Urdu Studies; A history of the development of Urdu short story as a genre; a book of Pakistani short stories (English, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi) for Penguin.
 
Recent Publications:

Naiyer Masud, Essence of Camphor: Stories, edited and translated. New York: The New Press. 2000.

Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, The Old Banyan and Other Stories, edited. Karachi: Oxford University Press. 1999.

The Tale of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories, edited, translated, and introduction. Delhi: Harper Collins.

Khadija Mastur, Cool, Sweet Water: Selected Stories, edited. New Delhi: Kali for Women; 1998.

The Colour of Nothingness: Modern Urdu Short Stories 1998. The Colour of Nothingness: Modern Urdu Short Stories, edited and introduction. Karachi: Oxford University Press; 1998.

Intizar Husain, The Seventh Door and Other Stories, editor and introduction. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers; 1998.

An Epic Unwritten: The Penguin Book of Partition Stories from Urdu, edited, translated, and introduction. Delhi: Penguin Books; 1998.

Abdullah Hussein: Stories of Exile and Alienation, edited, translated, and introduction. Karachi: Oxford University Press; 1998.

Hasan Manzar: A Requiem for the Earth and Other Stories, edited and introduction. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

Fear and Desire: An Anthology of Urdu Stories. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1994

"Melodrama or ...? A Note on Manto's ‘In This Maelstrom,' " edited by Alok Bhalla. In Life and Works of Saadat Hasan Manto. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study 13-27; 1993-1998.

The Annual of Urdu Studies, numerous articles, editorials, and translations in vols. 8-13.

 
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