Faculty Profile


Ms. Sumaira Asif

 

  suhashmi@numl.edu.pk

  061-9330459

P.hD (Scholar)
M. Phil (English Literature)
CGPA: 3.51 (73.15 %)
2011-2013
Government College University, Faisalabad
 

2016-Present
English Lecturer-Literature
National University of Modern Languages, Multan Campus 

  • Enable students to offer critiques, not only of the literary texts, but also of the theories under discussion
  • Familiarize students with literary terms and usage in close reading of texts and analysing literature within different critical frameworks
  • Inculcate an understanding to comprehend the literary text
  • Analyse works of literature in cultural and historical contexts
  • Organize, prepare and revise course materials
  • Develop assessment scheme

 

2017-2020
Administrative and Academic Coordinator
NUML MULTAN

  • Manage budgets, logistics and events or meetings
  • Handle scheduling, record-keeping and reporting
  • Ensure the complies with relevant laws and regulations
  • Develop and run educational programs
  • Announce meetings
  • Counsel Students
  • Resolve conflicts and other issues

 

2015-2016
English Lecturer-Functional English ISP (Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan)

  • Facilitate them to use grammar for various practical situations
  • Enable students to understand the mechanism of speech
  • Develop communicative skills of the learners in listening, speaking, writing and reading
  • Enhance language skills through grammar, phrases and sentence making
  • Encourage increase efficiency in communication
  • Helps understand the English jargon of texts, documents and instructions and thus boosts productivity.

 

2014-15
English Teacher/Trainer/Coordinator The City School PARCO Chapter

  • Organize classroom lectures and coursework
  • Provide feedback based on workload and classroom behaviour
  • Research new language teaching methods
  • Manage classroom crises and resolve conflict
  • Collaborate with teaching staff and administrators to foster a good student experience

 

2013-2014
English Lecturer Ali Ghar Post Graduate College, Multan

  • Prepare students for the college exam and targeted syllabus design
  • Enable students to choose, to some measure, what they study in class
  • Assist students to achieve goals that will serve a purpose in students’ academic futures
  • I ncorporate a variety of teaching methodologies in a class
  • Evaluate and assess students to meet with exam targets
  • Identify students with special requirements and create individual plans

 

2010-2011
English Teacher
The city School KAPCO

  • Prepare materials and activities
  • Assign homework and interesting exercises
  • Determine exam and assignment grades
  • Keep a record of students’ attendance and grades
  • Manage classroom crises and resolve conflict
  • Inform parents about their children’s performance

 

Administrative Experience
- ORIC- Focal Person of English Department (2021 - to date)
Department of English
National University of Modern Languages, Multan, Pakistan
- Coordinator English Department (2017-2020)
 National University of Modern Languages, Multan, Pakistan

1. Sumaira., Ahmad, A., Mahmood, S.(2021). Antediluvian Hieroglyphs Vs
Emojis: A Social Semiotics Analysis of Emoticons and Emojis. Journal Orient
Research Journal of Social Sciences, 6, (1), 168-178.
https://www.gcwus.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/15.-AntediluvianHieroglyphs-Vs-Emojis.pdf

2. Umer, S., Sumaira., Maryam, F., Sajid, A. (2021) Female Deconstruction and
Discursivity in Hamid’s Exit West: A Case Study. Journal Review of
Education, Administration and Law, 4 (1), 113-124.
https://real.spcrd.org/index.php/real/article/view/116/117

3. Umer, S., Rasul, S., Sumaira., Iqbal, Z. (2021). Locating Multilingual Literacies:
A Case Study of Literacy Practices at the Fatima Jinnah Women University
(FJWU) Rawalpindi. Journal Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 9(3),
1191-1201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93117

4. Sajid, A., Khan, M.R., Sumaira., Jamil, M.J. (2021). Caricatures and ReligioPolitical Ideology in Pakistani Print Media Discourses. Journal Humanities &
Social Sciences Reviews, 9(3), 1295-1302. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93128

5. Mushtaq, F., Sumaira., Maryam, F. (2021). Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and
Politeness Strategies: Studying the Usage of Request Speech Act in Pakistani
Undergraduate Students. Journal Review of Economics and Development
Studies, 7, (2), 299-308. DOI:
https://reads.spcrd.org/index.php/reads/article/view/366

6. Maryam, F., Mushtaq, F., Sumaira., Shahzadi, H. (2020). Culturally Ostracized
Emoji: A Semiotic Analysis of Emojis and Emoticons. Journal Review of
Education, Administration and Law, 3, (3), 457-469.
https://real.spcrd.org/index.php/real/article/view/91

7. Kiran, N., Sajid, A., Sumaira., Farooq, F. (2020). Religio-political Ideology: A
Comparative Study of Pakistani Political Parties Manifestos. Journal Review of
Education, Administration and Law, 3, (2), 333-339. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47067/real.v3i2.70

8. Yasmin, S., Sajid, A., Kamran, M.Q., Sumaira. (2020). Economy and Doing
Gender: a Comparative Study of Government and Non-government School
Systems. Journal Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences, 3, (2),
259-270. https://ramss.spcrd.org/index.php/ramss/article/view/60/52

9. Sumaira., Asmat, U. (2015). Woman, a Game of Profit and Loss: A Materialistic
Feminist Analysis of Qaisra Shahraz’s Holy Woman. Journal Pakistan Journal
of Languages and Translation Studies, 3, (1), 74-92.
http://uog.edu.pk/en/research/PJLTS/vers

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Education

P.hD (Scholar)
M. Phil (English Literature)
CGPA: 3.51 (73.15 %)
2011-2013
Government College University, Faisalabad
 

Experience

2016-Present
English Lecturer-Literature
National University of Modern Languages, Multan Campus 

  • Enable students to offer critiques, not only of the literary texts, but also of the theories under discussion
  • Familiarize students with literary terms and usage in close reading of texts and analysing literature within different critical frameworks
  • Inculcate an understanding to comprehend the literary text
  • Analyse works of literature in cultural and historical contexts
  • Organize, prepare and revise course materials
  • Develop assessment scheme

 

2017-2020
Administrative and Academic Coordinator
NUML MULTAN

  • Manage budgets, logistics and events or meetings
  • Handle scheduling, record-keeping and reporting
  • Ensure the complies with relevant laws and regulations
  • Develop and run educational programs
  • Announce meetings
  • Counsel Students
  • Resolve conflicts and other issues

 

2015-2016
English Lecturer-Functional English ISP (Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan)

  • Facilitate them to use grammar for various practical situations
  • Enable students to understand the mechanism of speech
  • Develop communicative skills of the learners in listening, speaking, writing and reading
  • Enhance language skills through grammar, phrases and sentence making
  • Encourage increase efficiency in communication
  • Helps understand the English jargon of texts, documents and instructions and thus boosts productivity.

 

2014-15
English Teacher/Trainer/Coordinator The City School PARCO Chapter

  • Organize classroom lectures and coursework
  • Provide feedback based on workload and classroom behaviour
  • Research new language teaching methods
  • Manage classroom crises and resolve conflict
  • Collaborate with teaching staff and administrators to foster a good student experience

 

2013-2014
English Lecturer Ali Ghar Post Graduate College, Multan

  • Prepare students for the college exam and targeted syllabus design
  • Enable students to choose, to some measure, what they study in class
  • Assist students to achieve goals that will serve a purpose in students’ academic futures
  • I ncorporate a variety of teaching methodologies in a class
  • Evaluate and assess students to meet with exam targets
  • Identify students with special requirements and create individual plans

 

2010-2011
English Teacher
The city School KAPCO

  • Prepare materials and activities
  • Assign homework and interesting exercises
  • Determine exam and assignment grades
  • Keep a record of students’ attendance and grades
  • Manage classroom crises and resolve conflict
  • Inform parents about their children’s performance

 

Administrative Experience
- ORIC- Focal Person of English Department (2021 - to date)
Department of English
National University of Modern Languages, Multan, Pakistan
- Coordinator English Department (2017-2020)
 National University of Modern Languages, Multan, Pakistan

Publications

1. Sumaira., Ahmad, A., Mahmood, S.(2021). Antediluvian Hieroglyphs Vs
Emojis: A Social Semiotics Analysis of Emoticons and Emojis. Journal Orient
Research Journal of Social Sciences, 6, (1), 168-178.
https://www.gcwus.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/15.-AntediluvianHieroglyphs-Vs-Emojis.pdf

2. Umer, S., Sumaira., Maryam, F., Sajid, A. (2021) Female Deconstruction and
Discursivity in Hamid’s Exit West: A Case Study. Journal Review of
Education, Administration and Law, 4 (1), 113-124.
https://real.spcrd.org/index.php/real/article/view/116/117

3. Umer, S., Rasul, S., Sumaira., Iqbal, Z. (2021). Locating Multilingual Literacies:
A Case Study of Literacy Practices at the Fatima Jinnah Women University
(FJWU) Rawalpindi. Journal Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 9(3),
1191-1201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93117

4. Sajid, A., Khan, M.R., Sumaira., Jamil, M.J. (2021). Caricatures and ReligioPolitical Ideology in Pakistani Print Media Discourses. Journal Humanities &
Social Sciences Reviews, 9(3), 1295-1302. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93128

5. Mushtaq, F., Sumaira., Maryam, F. (2021). Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and
Politeness Strategies: Studying the Usage of Request Speech Act in Pakistani
Undergraduate Students. Journal Review of Economics and Development
Studies, 7, (2), 299-308. DOI:
https://reads.spcrd.org/index.php/reads/article/view/366

6. Maryam, F., Mushtaq, F., Sumaira., Shahzadi, H. (2020). Culturally Ostracized
Emoji: A Semiotic Analysis of Emojis and Emoticons. Journal Review of
Education, Administration and Law, 3, (3), 457-469.
https://real.spcrd.org/index.php/real/article/view/91

7. Kiran, N., Sajid, A., Sumaira., Farooq, F. (2020). Religio-political Ideology: A
Comparative Study of Pakistani Political Parties Manifestos. Journal Review of
Education, Administration and Law, 3, (2), 333-339. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47067/real.v3i2.70

8. Yasmin, S., Sajid, A., Kamran, M.Q., Sumaira. (2020). Economy and Doing
Gender: a Comparative Study of Government and Non-government School
Systems. Journal Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences, 3, (2),
259-270. https://ramss.spcrd.org/index.php/ramss/article/view/60/52

9. Sumaira., Asmat, U. (2015). Woman, a Game of Profit and Loss: A Materialistic
Feminist Analysis of Qaisra Shahraz’s Holy Woman. Journal Pakistan Journal
of Languages and Translation Studies, 3, (1), 74-92.
http://uog.edu.pk/en/research/PJLTS/vers

Interests

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