Richard Delacy

Senior Lecturer in South Asia Studies

Richard Delacy’s academic background is in modern Hindi language and literature from the colonial period onwards, in particular the literary novel in the late twentieth century. He has also studied commercial Hindi cinema produced in Mumbai from middle of the twentieth century. He has taught all levels of Hindi-Urdu, courses on Bollywood cinema, the Urdu ghazal, and has also published several language teaching materials and offers courses at the beginner’s and intermediate level at Wellesley College.

Education

  • B.A., University of Melbourne (Australia)
  • M.A., Monash University (Australia)
  • M.A., University of Chicago
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago

Current and upcoming courses

Intermediate Hindi/Urdu will build on the reading, writing, and speaking skills acquired in Elementary Hindi/Urdu (HNUR 101-HNUR 102). The readings, drawn from simple literary texts as well as from social and journalistic writings, will reinforce the grammar learned in the introductory course and introduce new grammar topics. The writing exercises-mainly in essay formats-will stress usage of idioms and sentence constructions by students. The class will be conducted in Hindi/Urdu with a part of every class dedicated to conversation on the theme of the day in the language.