Christopher Shackle, FBA (born 4 March 1942)[1] is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia at the University of London.
[5] In 1969 Shackle took up an appointment as a Lecturer in Urdu and Panjabi at SOAS University of London, a position he held for the next 10 years.
[6] He is furthermore the head of the Urdu department at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London, Project Leader at the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Centre for Asian and African Literatures, and a member of the Centre of South Asian Studies.
[citation needed] He was active in Saraiki writers' circle and a friend of Umer Kamal Khan and Aslam Rasoolpuri.
[8] In 2021, his translation of the classical Punjabi poet Bulleh Shah was published by Harvard University Press.