2019 TO-DATE: Assistant Professor of English, at Department of English Graduate Studies, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

1. Head, Department of English (UGS)
2. Member (Subject expert for English literature courses), Faculty Board of Studies MPhil and PhD
3. Worked as Coordinator, MPhil English program (for some time)
4. Teaching MPhil and PhD courses
5. Evaluating MPhil and PhD thesis
6. Supervising MPhil and PhD scholars 
7. 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.

Other responsibilities:

1. The person in charge of the Ph.D. in English program
2. Member of Board of Studies
3. Founding editor of Erevna Journal of Literature and Linguistics

Sep 2015 - Sep 2016       Assistant Professor of English,  National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)                Islamabad, Pakistan. Served at the College of CE&ME.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

1. War Memory, Psychological Trauma and Literary Witnessing: Afghan Cultural Production in Focus. Sage Open: W category, Impact Factor journal. Published on 24 Sep 2020.
    
2. 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]

3. 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

4. War Trauma, Collective Memory and Cultural Productions in Conflict Zone: Kashmir in Focus. Sage Open. Sage Publication: Vol. 8, Issue No. 3 (2018) [W Category Impact Factor Journal]

5. 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]

6. 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]

7. 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]

8. Indigenous Culture and Academic Discourse: A Critique of English Textbooks in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review. Vol. II, Issue No. 1. (2017) [X Category]

9. 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]

10. 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].
11.  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].
12. 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].
13. 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]

13. Essentialist Stereotyping of Muslims/Islam, Self-Othering and Neo-Orientalism: Selected Cultural Production in Focus. Al-Azhar Jounal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 6. No. 1 (2020)

14. 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]

15. 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.

16. 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]

17. 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)

Conference Presentations

1. 24th International TESOL Arabia Conference & Exhibition 2019 - Hyatt Regency Hotel Dubai, UAE (21-23 March 2019)
    
2. ‘Better Learning’ Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (July 2019)
    
3. Queer Paradigm 8 - Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Fully funded by the University of Vienna on 20-23 September 2017)
    
4. First TUELC-CUP Symposium on Active Learning, jointly organized by Cambridge University Press and Taif University English Language Centre at Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on 23-24 April 2018.

5. Second TUELC-CUP Symposium on Emerging Trends in TESOL, , jointly organized by Cambridge University Press and Taif University English Language Centre at Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on 10-11 December 2018.

6. Locating the Transcultural Humanities in Pakistan/South Asia - Department of English, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan (13-15 October 2017)

7. The Second IIUI-UNCW International Conference on Local Cities, Foreign Capital: Finding the Local Anchor in Global Cultures, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan (9-11 October 2017).

8. War, Women, and Double Trauma: Impact of War on Domestic Violence Against Women as Portrayed in Selected Afghan Fiction in English - First International conference on Emerging Trends of Researching, Language, Literature and Linguistics, organized by Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan (15, 16 December 2015).

9. The Past as Traumatic Present: Memory and Testimony in Afghan Fiction in English - Conference presentation at the First International Conference Language and Literature (FICLL), GC University, Lahore. (14-16 April 2014).

10. Dawning Reality and Shattering Idols of Unjustified Hatred: Analysis of the Role of Area Study Center in Clarifying US Image Among Pakistani Students at Barha Galli Campus by Area Study Center of Peshawar University’s conference titled “Area Studies: Challenges and Prospects” (19-21 July 2009)

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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: Assistant Professor of English, at Department of English Graduate Studies, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, Pakistan.

1. Head, Department of English (UGS)
2. Member (Subject expert for English literature courses), Faculty Board of Studies MPhil and PhD
3. Worked as Coordinator, MPhil English program (for some time)
4. Teaching MPhil and PhD courses
5. Evaluating MPhil and PhD thesis
6. Supervising MPhil and PhD scholars 
7. 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.

Other responsibilities:

1. The person in charge of the Ph.D. in English program
2. Member of Board of Studies
3. Founding editor of Erevna Journal of Literature and Linguistics

Sep 2015 - Sep 2016       Assistant Professor of English,  National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)                Islamabad, Pakistan. Served at the College of CE&ME.

Publications

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

1. War Memory, Psychological Trauma and Literary Witnessing: Afghan Cultural Production in Focus. Sage Open: W category, Impact Factor journal. Published on 24 Sep 2020.
    
2. 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]

3. 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

4. War Trauma, Collective Memory and Cultural Productions in Conflict Zone: Kashmir in Focus. Sage Open. Sage Publication: Vol. 8, Issue No. 3 (2018) [W Category Impact Factor Journal]

5. 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]

6. 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]

7. 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]

8. Indigenous Culture and Academic Discourse: A Critique of English Textbooks in Pakistan. Global Social Sciences Review. Vol. II, Issue No. 1. (2017) [X Category]

9. 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]

10. 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].
11.  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].
12. 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].
13. 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]

13. Essentialist Stereotyping of Muslims/Islam, Self-Othering and Neo-Orientalism: Selected Cultural Production in Focus. Al-Azhar Jounal. Department of Islamic Studies, Agriculture University, Peshawar. Vol. 6. No. 1 (2020)

14. 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]

15. 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.

16. 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]

17. 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)

Conference Presentations

1. 24th International TESOL Arabia Conference & Exhibition 2019 - Hyatt Regency Hotel Dubai, UAE (21-23 March 2019)
    
2. ‘Better Learning’ Conference, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (July 2019)
    
3. Queer Paradigm 8 - Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Fully funded by the University of Vienna on 20-23 September 2017)
    
4. First TUELC-CUP Symposium on Active Learning, jointly organized by Cambridge University Press and Taif University English Language Centre at Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on 23-24 April 2018.

5. Second TUELC-CUP Symposium on Emerging Trends in TESOL, , jointly organized by Cambridge University Press and Taif University English Language Centre at Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on 10-11 December 2018.

6. Locating the Transcultural Humanities in Pakistan/South Asia - Department of English, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan (13-15 October 2017)

7. The Second IIUI-UNCW International Conference on Local Cities, Foreign Capital: Finding the Local Anchor in Global Cultures, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan (9-11 October 2017).

8. War, Women, and Double Trauma: Impact of War on Domestic Violence Against Women as Portrayed in Selected Afghan Fiction in English - First International conference on Emerging Trends of Researching, Language, Literature and Linguistics, organized by Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan (15, 16 December 2015).

9. The Past as Traumatic Present: Memory and Testimony in Afghan Fiction in English - Conference presentation at the First International Conference Language and Literature (FICLL), GC University, Lahore. (14-16 April 2014).

10. Dawning Reality and Shattering Idols of Unjustified Hatred: Analysis of the Role of Area Study Center in Clarifying US Image Among Pakistani Students at Barha Galli Campus by Area Study Center of Peshawar University’s conference titled “Area Studies: Challenges and Prospects” (19-21 July 2009)

Interests

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