• Currently serving as a lecturer on contract in the Department of English at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, since September 2020.
• Served as a visiting faculty member in the Department of English (Applied Translation Studies) at Rawalpindi Women University, for the semester Spring-2020.
• Worked as a visiting lecturer in the Department of English at International Islamic University Islamabad from September 2017 to August 2020.
• Served in Center of Excellence for Modern Languages (CEML) at International Islamic University, Islamabad as a language teacher from September 2017 to September 2019.
• Served as senior school teacher at Silver Oaks School Rawalpindi for a year from August, 2016 to August, 2017.

• Irshad, N. (2022). Proximization strategies used in Covid-19 prevention discourse: An STA based analysis of official guidelines issued in Pakistan. Discourse and Interaction, 15(1), 29-50. doi:https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2022-1-29
• Irshad, N. (2022). Pragmatic role of offline hashtags: Guide to readers’ inference. Linguistic Forum- A Journal of Linguistics 4(4), 8-18. doi: http://doi.org/10.53057/linfo/2022.4.4.2

• Multimodality
• Translation Studies
• Pragmatics
• Applied Linguistics
• English Language Teaching

Education

• PhD English (Linguistics)

In Progress 

National University of Modern Languages Islamabad

• MPhil English-Linguistics

National University of Modern Languages Islamabad

• BS (Honors) English- Literature and Linguistics (2016)

National University of Modern Languages Islamabad

Experience

• Currently serving as a lecturer on contract in the Department of English at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, since September 2020.
• Served as a visiting faculty member in the Department of English (Applied Translation Studies) at Rawalpindi Women University, for the semester Spring-2020.
• Worked as a visiting lecturer in the Department of English at International Islamic University Islamabad from September 2017 to August 2020.
• Served in Center of Excellence for Modern Languages (CEML) at International Islamic University, Islamabad as a language teacher from September 2017 to September 2019.
• Served as senior school teacher at Silver Oaks School Rawalpindi for a year from August, 2016 to August, 2017.

Publications

• Irshad, N. (2022). Proximization strategies used in Covid-19 prevention discourse: An STA based analysis of official guidelines issued in Pakistan. Discourse and Interaction, 15(1), 29-50. doi:https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2022-1-29
• Irshad, N. (2022). Pragmatic role of offline hashtags: Guide to readers’ inference. Linguistic Forum- A Journal of Linguistics 4(4), 8-18. doi: http://doi.org/10.53057/linfo/2022.4.4.2

Interests

• Multimodality
• Translation Studies
• Pragmatics
• Applied Linguistics
• English Language Teaching