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Dr. Inayat Ullah

 

  hod-egs@numl.edu.pk | inayat@numl.edu.pk

  051-9265066 Ext.2130

2016       Ph.D. in Linguistics and Literature

                Air University, PAF Complex, Sector E-9, Islamabad, Pakistan

                Courses: Language and Power; Advance Stylistics; Literary Theory;

                Postcolonial Studies; Shakespearean Studies; World Literature and

                Literature in Translation

2010       M.Phil in American Studies

                Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2003       M.A in English Language and Literature

                The University of Peshawar

2001       B.A in English Language and Literature

                The University of Peshawar

 

2019 TO-DATE: Head of Department of English

 Head of the Department of English (GS), National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan. 

. Courses taught: 9/11 Fiction (PhD); Postcolonial Literature (PhD); South Asian Literature (PhD); Literary Theory (MPhil); Postcolonial Literature (MPhil); Modern Poetry (BS); American Literature (BS)
•    Established 12 Research Clusters of Linguistics and Literature
•    Launched Graduate Research Seminars for all MPhil and PhD students
•    Initiated Guest Speaker series

Head, Department of English (UGS) [September 2020 to April 2021]
•    Established 14 student societies
•    Member (Subject expert for English literature courses), Faculty Board of Studies MPhil and PhD
•    Worked as Coordinator, MPhil English program (for some time)
•    Teaching MPhil and PhD courses
•    Evaluating MPhil and PhD thesis
•    Supervising MPhil and PhD scholars
•    Reviewer, Journal of Critical Inquiry

Dec 2017 -  2019
Assistant Professor at English Language Center, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1. Founding Head of Quality Assurance & Accreditation Division
2. Deputy Head of Steering Committee for TUELC’s accreditation with CEA, USA
3. Supervisor, Quality & Development Unit
4. Founding Editor, TUELC Weekly Newsletter
5. Organizer, 2nd TUELC and Cambridge University Press Symposium
6. Member, Organizing Committee 1st TUELC and Cambridge University Press Symposium

Sep 2016 to Dec 2017
Assistant Professor of English at the Department of English, Air University, Islamabad.
Courses Taught:
Literary Theories and Application
Postcolonial Literature
South Asian Literature 
Other responsibilities:
Person in-charge of the PhD in English program
Member of Board of Studies
Founding editor of Erevna Journal of Literature and Linguistics                                                                                                                               
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Assistant Professor of English at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad, Pakistan. Served at the College of CE&ME.
    Courses Taught:
    Functional English
    Communication Skills
    Technical and Business Writing
    Other Responsibilities:
    Founding Editor of NUSTIAN: To report E&ME activities to NUST H-
    12 Campus for coverage in the biannual magazine

Sep 2012 - Sep 2015    
Assistant Professor of English, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    Courses Taught:
    1.    Functional English
    2.    Communication Skills
    3.    Technical Report Writing
    4.    Introduction to English Literature
    5.    Business Communication
    Other Responsibilities:
    Editor of Jinnah Students Magazine (publishing the magazine in English)
    Patron of Jinnah Engineers Voice (Organizing sports activities on campus)

Sep 2013 - June 2014    Assistant Professor of English (Adjunct Faculty)
    Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
        Courses Taught:
    1.    Functional English (Two sections; Semester Fall 2013)
    2.    Communication Skills (Two sections; Semester Spring 2014)

Sep 2009 - Mar 2012    English Language Instructor, Doha, Qatar. 

Aug 2007 - Sep 2009    
Lecturer in English, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    Courses Taught:

  

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

  1. War Memory, Psychological Trauma and Literary Witnessing: Afghan Cultural Production in Focus. Sage Open. ISSN: 2158-2440. Impact Factor: 2.032 (2020). W category journal. Published on 24 Sep 2020.
  1. Representation of indigenous languages employing a religious screen for the discursive construction of students' postcolonial national identities: A curious case of ‘internal colonisation’ and ‘cultural invasion’ in Pakistani schools. British Educational Research Journal. Impact Factor: 2.132. W category. ISSN: 1469-3518,0141-1926. Published on 21 July 2022.
  1. War Trauma, Collective Memory and Cultural Productions in Conflict Zone: Kashmir in Focus. Sage Open. ISSN: 2158-2440. Impact Factor: 2.032 Vol. 8, Issue No. 3 (2018) [W Category Impact Factor Journal]
  1. Discursive Strategizing of Paradoxically Placed Pain and Pleasure: A Benthamian Analysis of Ramzy Baroud’s The Last Earth. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 6, No. 2 (July 2020) [Y Category]
  1. Monolithic Misrepresentation of Muslim Women and Islam: Textual Analysis of Selected American Literary Texts. Al-Azhar Jounal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 6. No. 2 (2020)
  1. Improving Speaking Ability of Medical Students through Task-Based Language Teaching: EFL Learners at Taif University in Focus. ELF Annual Research Journal. Vol. 20. (2019) Institute of English Language and Literature SALU, Khairpur
  1. War on Terra and Eco-Critical Discursivity: Analyzing the Role of Cultural Productions in Creating Eco-Consciousness. International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 8, No. 3 (2018) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
  1. Gender Issues in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke: An Analysis of Selected Excerpts. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 4, No. 2 (July 2018) [Y Category]
  1. Augmenting History Through Trauma Narratives: Trauma Analysis of Selected Afghan Cultural Productions in English and Implications for Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of History and Culture at National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (2017) [Y Category]
  1. Indigenous Culture and Academic Discourse: A Critique of English Textbooks in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review. Vol. II, Issue No. 1. (2017) [X Category]
  1. Critical Realism, Mimicry or Colonialism: Analysis of Ismat Chughtai’s Dealing of Queer Themes. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 3, No. 2 (July 2017) [Y Category]
  1. Discursive Strategies and Politics of (Neo-)colonialism: A Textual Analysis of Saadat Hassan Manto’s Letters to Uncle Sam - International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 5 (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
     
  2.  Cultural (Mis)Appropriation, Ideological Essentialism and Language: Analysis of Stereotyping in Hollywood Movie -- International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 6. (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
     
  3. The Role of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Teaching Culture Through Second Language Acquisition - Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 1, No. 1 (2015) [Y Category]
     
  4. Globalization, South Asian Diaspora and Identity: Coverage of Trauma of Homelessness in Anglophone Cultural Productions - Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 1, No. 2 (2015) [Y Category]
     
  5. Essentialist Stereotyping of Muslims/Islam, Self-Othering and Neo-Orientalism: Selected Cultural Production in Focus. Al-Azhar Journal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 6. No. 1 (2020)
     
  6. Performance Enhancement through Effective Communication: A Study of the Role of External and Internal Communication - Journal Publication in Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business, ISSN 2073-7122, Vol. 1, No. 7, November 2009. [Y Category]
     
  7. Writing Back to the Empire: Righting Creole Identity in Wide Sargasso Sea, Journal publication in Language in India, ISSN 1930-2940, Vol.13:6, June 2013.
     
  8. Influence of Drugs on Students Performance: A Qualitative Study of Pakistan University Students - Journal Publication in Interdisciplinary Journal of contemporary Research in Business, ISSN 2073-7122, Vol. 4, No. 8, November 2012. [Y Category]
     
  9. Islam and Mysticism: An Analysis of the Sufi Symbolism in the Select Poetry of Omer Tarin. Al-Azhar Jounal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 5. No. 2 (2019)
     
  10. She Cannot Speak, It’s Blasphemous: Feminist Analysis of Durrani’s Blasphemy. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 5, No. 1 (January 2019) [Y Category
     
  11. Spatial Memory, Traumatic Unspeakability and the War in Afghanistan: Selected Literary Witnessing in Focus. Kashmir Journal of Language Research (KJLR), ISSN 1028-6640. Vol 23, Issue 2 (31 Dec 2020) [Y category]
     
  12. Re-Orientalism, (Mis)Representation of Islam and Women Rights: Analysis of Pakistani Anglophone Cultural Production. Journal of Islamic Civilization and Culture (2707-689X). Vol 4, Issue 1. (2021) [Y Category]
     
  13. Psychological Border(ing) and Identity Crisis at Borderlands: Analysis of Abdullah Hussein’s Emigre Journeys. Erevna: Journal of Linguistics and Literature. ISSN (print): 2521-5078. ISSN (online): 2709-8621. Vol 5, Issue 1. (07 June 2021) (Y Category]
     
  14. Essentialist Borderlands, Monolithic Othering and Migrated Locales: Analysis of H. M. Naqvi's Home Boy. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 7, No. 2 (26 June 2021) [Y Category]
     
  15. Double Colonization: A Postcolonial Feminist Study of Buchi Emecheta The Slave Girl. City University Research Journal of Literature and Linguistics. ISSN 2706-9656, 2706-9664. Vol. 4, Issue 1. (30 June 2021) [Y Category]
     
  16. Epidermalization of Inferiority, Cultural Root(lessness) and Mimicry: Bapsi Sidhwa’s American Brat in Focus. The Dialogue. ISSN: 1819-6462. Vol 17, Issue 2 (24 May 2022) [Y Category]
     
  17. Enigma of Colonial Amnesia and the Trauma of the Past in Fatimah Asghar’s Finding the Hammam. City University Research Journal of Literature and Linguistics. ISSN: 2706-9656,2706-9664. Vol 5, Issue 1 (28 June 2022) [Y Category]
     
  18. Stress Placement in English Quadri-Syllabic and Five-Syllabic Suffixed Words and Their Roots by Pashto Speakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan-- International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 6. (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
     
  19. Articulation of English Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs by Pashto Speakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan -- International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 5. (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]

 

Education

2016       Ph.D. in Linguistics and Literature

                Air University, PAF Complex, Sector E-9, Islamabad, Pakistan

                Courses: Language and Power; Advance Stylistics; Literary Theory;

                Postcolonial Studies; Shakespearean Studies; World Literature and

                Literature in Translation

2010       M.Phil in American Studies

                Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2003       M.A in English Language and Literature

                The University of Peshawar

2001       B.A in English Language and Literature

                The University of Peshawar

 

Experience

2019 TO-DATE: Head of Department of English

 Head of the Department of English (GS), National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan. 

. Courses taught: 9/11 Fiction (PhD); Postcolonial Literature (PhD); South Asian Literature (PhD); Literary Theory (MPhil); Postcolonial Literature (MPhil); Modern Poetry (BS); American Literature (BS)
•    Established 12 Research Clusters of Linguistics and Literature
•    Launched Graduate Research Seminars for all MPhil and PhD students
•    Initiated Guest Speaker series

Head, Department of English (UGS) [September 2020 to April 2021]
•    Established 14 student societies
•    Member (Subject expert for English literature courses), Faculty Board of Studies MPhil and PhD
•    Worked as Coordinator, MPhil English program (for some time)
•    Teaching MPhil and PhD courses
•    Evaluating MPhil and PhD thesis
•    Supervising MPhil and PhD scholars
•    Reviewer, Journal of Critical Inquiry

Dec 2017 -  2019
Assistant Professor at English Language Center, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1. Founding Head of Quality Assurance & Accreditation Division
2. Deputy Head of Steering Committee for TUELC’s accreditation with CEA, USA
3. Supervisor, Quality & Development Unit
4. Founding Editor, TUELC Weekly Newsletter
5. Organizer, 2nd TUELC and Cambridge University Press Symposium
6. Member, Organizing Committee 1st TUELC and Cambridge University Press Symposium

Sep 2016 to Dec 2017
Assistant Professor of English at the Department of English, Air University, Islamabad.
Courses Taught:
Literary Theories and Application
Postcolonial Literature
South Asian Literature 
Other responsibilities:
Person in-charge of the PhD in English program
Member of Board of Studies
Founding editor of Erevna Journal of Literature and Linguistics                                                                                                                               
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Assistant Professor of English at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad, Pakistan. Served at the College of CE&ME.
    Courses Taught:
    Functional English
    Communication Skills
    Technical and Business Writing
    Other Responsibilities:
    Founding Editor of NUSTIAN: To report E&ME activities to NUST H-
    12 Campus for coverage in the biannual magazine

Sep 2012 - Sep 2015    
Assistant Professor of English, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    Courses Taught:
    1.    Functional English
    2.    Communication Skills
    3.    Technical Report Writing
    4.    Introduction to English Literature
    5.    Business Communication
    Other Responsibilities:
    Editor of Jinnah Students Magazine (publishing the magazine in English)
    Patron of Jinnah Engineers Voice (Organizing sports activities on campus)

Sep 2013 - June 2014    Assistant Professor of English (Adjunct Faculty)
    Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
        Courses Taught:
    1.    Functional English (Two sections; Semester Fall 2013)
    2.    Communication Skills (Two sections; Semester Spring 2014)

Sep 2009 - Mar 2012    English Language Instructor, Doha, Qatar. 

Aug 2007 - Sep 2009    
Lecturer in English, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    Courses Taught:

  

Publications

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

  1. War Memory, Psychological Trauma and Literary Witnessing: Afghan Cultural Production in Focus. Sage Open. ISSN: 2158-2440. Impact Factor: 2.032 (2020). W category journal. Published on 24 Sep 2020.
  1. Representation of indigenous languages employing a religious screen for the discursive construction of students' postcolonial national identities: A curious case of ‘internal colonisation’ and ‘cultural invasion’ in Pakistani schools. British Educational Research Journal. Impact Factor: 2.132. W category. ISSN: 1469-3518,0141-1926. Published on 21 July 2022.
  1. War Trauma, Collective Memory and Cultural Productions in Conflict Zone: Kashmir in Focus. Sage Open. ISSN: 2158-2440. Impact Factor: 2.032 Vol. 8, Issue No. 3 (2018) [W Category Impact Factor Journal]
  1. Discursive Strategizing of Paradoxically Placed Pain and Pleasure: A Benthamian Analysis of Ramzy Baroud’s The Last Earth. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 6, No. 2 (July 2020) [Y Category]
  1. Monolithic Misrepresentation of Muslim Women and Islam: Textual Analysis of Selected American Literary Texts. Al-Azhar Jounal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 6. No. 2 (2020)
  1. Improving Speaking Ability of Medical Students through Task-Based Language Teaching: EFL Learners at Taif University in Focus. ELF Annual Research Journal. Vol. 20. (2019) Institute of English Language and Literature SALU, Khairpur
  1. War on Terra and Eco-Critical Discursivity: Analyzing the Role of Cultural Productions in Creating Eco-Consciousness. International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 8, No. 3 (2018) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
  1. Gender Issues in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke: An Analysis of Selected Excerpts. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 4, No. 2 (July 2018) [Y Category]
  1. Augmenting History Through Trauma Narratives: Trauma Analysis of Selected Afghan Cultural Productions in English and Implications for Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of History and Culture at National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (2017) [Y Category]
  1. Indigenous Culture and Academic Discourse: A Critique of English Textbooks in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review. Vol. II, Issue No. 1. (2017) [X Category]
  1. Critical Realism, Mimicry or Colonialism: Analysis of Ismat Chughtai’s Dealing of Queer Themes. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 3, No. 2 (July 2017) [Y Category]
  1. Discursive Strategies and Politics of (Neo-)colonialism: A Textual Analysis of Saadat Hassan Manto’s Letters to Uncle Sam - International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 5 (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
     
  2.  Cultural (Mis)Appropriation, Ideological Essentialism and Language: Analysis of Stereotyping in Hollywood Movie -- International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 6. (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
     
  3. The Role of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Teaching Culture Through Second Language Acquisition - Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 1, No. 1 (2015) [Y Category]
     
  4. Globalization, South Asian Diaspora and Identity: Coverage of Trauma of Homelessness in Anglophone Cultural Productions - Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 1, No. 2 (2015) [Y Category]
     
  5. Essentialist Stereotyping of Muslims/Islam, Self-Othering and Neo-Orientalism: Selected Cultural Production in Focus. Al-Azhar Journal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 6. No. 1 (2020)
     
  6. Performance Enhancement through Effective Communication: A Study of the Role of External and Internal Communication - Journal Publication in Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business, ISSN 2073-7122, Vol. 1, No. 7, November 2009. [Y Category]
     
  7. Writing Back to the Empire: Righting Creole Identity in Wide Sargasso Sea, Journal publication in Language in India, ISSN 1930-2940, Vol.13:6, June 2013.
     
  8. Influence of Drugs on Students Performance: A Qualitative Study of Pakistan University Students - Journal Publication in Interdisciplinary Journal of contemporary Research in Business, ISSN 2073-7122, Vol. 4, No. 8, November 2012. [Y Category]
     
  9. Islam and Mysticism: An Analysis of the Sufi Symbolism in the Select Poetry of Omer Tarin. Al-Azhar Jounal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 5. No. 2 (2019)
     
  10. She Cannot Speak, It’s Blasphemous: Feminist Analysis of Durrani’s Blasphemy. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 5, No. 1 (January 2019) [Y Category
     
  11. Spatial Memory, Traumatic Unspeakability and the War in Afghanistan: Selected Literary Witnessing in Focus. Kashmir Journal of Language Research (KJLR), ISSN 1028-6640. Vol 23, Issue 2 (31 Dec 2020) [Y category]
     
  12. Re-Orientalism, (Mis)Representation of Islam and Women Rights: Analysis of Pakistani Anglophone Cultural Production. Journal of Islamic Civilization and Culture (2707-689X). Vol 4, Issue 1. (2021) [Y Category]
     
  13. Psychological Border(ing) and Identity Crisis at Borderlands: Analysis of Abdullah Hussein’s Emigre Journeys. Erevna: Journal of Linguistics and Literature. ISSN (print): 2521-5078. ISSN (online): 2709-8621. Vol 5, Issue 1. (07 June 2021) (Y Category]
     
  14. Essentialist Borderlands, Monolithic Othering and Migrated Locales: Analysis of H. M. Naqvi's Home Boy. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education and Language (PJSEL), ISSN 2521-8123. Vol 7, No. 2 (26 June 2021) [Y Category]
     
  15. Double Colonization: A Postcolonial Feminist Study of Buchi Emecheta The Slave Girl. City University Research Journal of Literature and Linguistics. ISSN 2706-9656, 2706-9664. Vol. 4, Issue 1. (30 June 2021) [Y Category]
     
  16. Epidermalization of Inferiority, Cultural Root(lessness) and Mimicry: Bapsi Sidhwa’s American Brat in Focus. The Dialogue. ISSN: 1819-6462. Vol 17, Issue 2 (24 May 2022) [Y Category]
     
  17. Enigma of Colonial Amnesia and the Trauma of the Past in Fatimah Asghar’s Finding the Hammam. City University Research Journal of Literature and Linguistics. ISSN: 2706-9656,2706-9664. Vol 5, Issue 1 (28 June 2022) [Y Category]
     
  18. Stress Placement in English Quadri-Syllabic and Five-Syllabic Suffixed Words and Their Roots by Pashto Speakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan-- International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 6. (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]
     
  19. Articulation of English Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs by Pashto Speakers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan -- International Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 1923-869X, Vol 7, No. 5. (2017) [Journal Listed in Thomson Reuters’ Master List]

 

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