Francesca Chubb-Confer

Two professors from the Religion Department traveled to Heidelberg, Germany, to present research at the European Association for South Asian Studies conference. Emilia Bachrach, Associate Professor of Religion and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, gave a talk on "South Asian Women's Innovations of Commercial Sites as Religious Spaces in Barcelona," and Francesca Chubb-Confer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, gave a talk on "World Literatures, World Religions, and the Translation of Islam in South Asia."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion Francesca Chubb-Confer presented research on Sufism and translation in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies conference held in partnership with the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion Francesca Chubb-Confer gave talks about her scholarly work on the poet, philosopher, and Muslim modernist thinker Muhammad Iqbal: at the University of Minnesota (“The Ghazal Guides the Way: Iqbal, Rumi, and the Poetics of Inspiration”) and a keynote address in Urdu for the community-run Urdu Institute of Schaumburg, Illinois.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion Francesca Chubb-Confer published an article in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East entitled "Remnants of Eternal Possibility: Iqbal and Lyric Time in the Ghazal." The article argues for a new way of reading the Persian poetry of Muhammad Iqbal, one of the most important figures of modern Islamic revival and reform.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion Francesca Chubb-Confer recently published an essay, "Poetry on the Periphery: Language, Power, and Islam" as part of a scholarly forum in the journal Afghanistan.