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David Boyk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University, where he teaches courses in Hindi-Urdu language literature, South Asian literature, film, and history. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. His research interests encompass South Asian urban regional history, Bollywood cinema, and food studies, with a focus on the history of Hindi-Urdu language literature. Boyk is the author of the forthcoming book "Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals in the Hinterland of Colonial India" from Cambridge University Press, which explores the intellectual culture of Patna, a significant city in North India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His scholarly contributions include articles published in prominent journals, as well as collaborative projects like an interactive textbook on Urdu script. Boyk is currently translating short story collections from notable Urdu writers Saadat Hasan Manto and Qazi Abdul Ghaffar.
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