Poorna’s research interests are transnational feminisms, Urdu and Hindi literature, post-Partition political histories of India and Pakistan, Third World intellectual networks, translation studies, and performance studies using archival research, textual analysis, performance analysis, interviews to conduct her research. Her dissertation is on Late-20^th century feminist discourse in Urdu and Hindi print culture. In addition to English, she speaks Hindi, Urdu, Persian, and Kannada.