Laiba (she/her) is a PhD student in the Comparative Literary Studies Program at Northwestern, with her home department being Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research translates and historicizes the works of post-colonial lyric poets who intertwine the genres of love poetry, homage, and elegy, investigating how they resist imperialist nationalisms, navigate censorship, and imagine de-colonial, feminist solidarities through verse. At Northwestern, she is a member of the Poetry and Poetics Cluster, and is the current president of The Subcontinent Project, a graduate-student organization for South Asian (and adjacent) students and community members furthering anti-colonial and anti-racist pedagogies. She looks forward to collaborative knowledge-building with her peers at the Writing Lab, learning with and from her mentors, fellows, and students alike.