Prof. Asim Siddiqui is a Professor of English at Aligarh Muslim University. His doctoral thesis focused on American novelist Mark Twain. His research interests include South Asian Literature (in English, Urdu, and Hindi), Literary Theory, 19th and 20th-century English and American fiction, Film Studies, and Research Methods in the Humanities.

His recent books include Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema: Poetics and Politics of Genre and Representation (Routledge, 2025), Shahryar (Sahitya Akademi, 2021), and the co-authored A History of Aligarh Muslim University 1920–2020 (Bennett and Coleman, 2021). He has published with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Orient Blackswan, Sahitya Akademi, Viva, Bloomsbury, and Springer. He was a Fulbright Fellow at New York University (2007).

He contributes regularly to newspapers, journals, and online platforms such as The Guardian, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Statesman, Scroll, NDTV, Frontline, India Today, Cafe Dissensus, The Book Review, Biblio, and Indian Literature. He translates from Urdu and Hindi into English, with recent translations published by Routledge and Sahitya Akademi.

He has also hosted a fortnightly webcast on English books on Urdu literature and language for Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu Hind.