Anisur Rahman

Anisur Rahman was born in 1950. He is a poet, translator, and literary critic.

Formerly a Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi, he is currently Senior Advisor at Rekhta Foundation, the world’s largest website on Urdu language, literature, and culture (www.rekhta.org).

He has worked and published in the areas of Comparative, Translation, Urdu, and Postcolonial Studies with special reference to the literature of South Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

He has to his credit four books authored by him, six edited/co-edited volumes, and two collections of Urdu poetry in English translation. His most recent publications include Earthenware: Sixty Poems (Rubric Publishing 2018), In Translation: Positions and Paradigms (OrientBlackswan, 2019), Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi: The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals (HarperCollins, 2019) and Socioliterary Cultures in South Asia (Niyogi Books, 2019). His collection of Urdu Poetry in English translation entitled A Garden of All Senses: Five Centuries of Best Urdu Poetry is due for publication in late 2021.

Professor Rahman has also been an academic administrator. He has served as Head, of the Department of English; Dean, of Students Welfare; Director, of the Centre for Coaching and Career Planning; and Registrar, of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has been a Shastri Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada (2001-2002) and a Visiting Scholar at Purdue University, USA (2007).