Haider Shahbaz is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on South Asian and African and diasporic literatures, colonial and anticolonial thought, internationalism, and translation. He is the translator of Mirza Athar Baig’s Hassan’s State of Affairs (HarperCollins India, 2019), and the editor of a special volume, “Against the Canon: Urdu Feminist Writing,” for Words Without Borders. Other writings and translations have appeared in Fence, Wasafiri, Jadaliyya, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Caravan, Dawn, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in Pakistan.