Fatima Rizvi is Professor in the Department of English and Modern European languages, University of Lucknow. Her areas of academic interest include Colonial and Postcolonial studies, Translation studies, and Urdu studies. She translates Urdu and Hindi. Her research papers have been published in journals of national and international repute and anthologies of critical essays. She has published Beyond the Stars and Other Stories, Women Unlimited, 2021, a translation of Qurratulain Hyder’s Sitaron se Aage (1947); is co-editing Understanding Disability: Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches for Springer and translating stories and essays for Summer Medley: A Qurratulain Hyder Miscellany. She was awarded the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for excellence in academic research (2018), and the Jawad Memorial Prize (2019), for Urdu – English translation.
Her translation from Urdu to English of a story by Munshi Premchand has appeared in Out of Print.