Afroz Taj

Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, NC State University

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Curriculum in Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

Afroz Taj has been teaching university level Hindi and Urdu since 1983, first at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and then at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). In 1995 he came to NCSU and UNC to establish a pioneering program of teaching Hindi-Urdu through interactive televideo. His research interests include Hindi-Urdu poetry and poetics, Indian drama and musical theater, and the Indian cinema. Originally from District Etah, Uttar Pradesh, Afroz did his undergraduate and master's degrees from Aligarh Muslim University, and his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.  

Telephone Address
NCSU 515-9302, 515-6981 (fax) Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Room 138, 1911 Building, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695
Residence 851-1119 102 Trinity Woods Dr., Raleigh, NC 27607
E-Mail taj@unity.ncsu.edu

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