Dr. Rabia Aamir

Assistant Professor

2024-2025    Postdoc from CES, University of Coimbra Portugal. (Ongoing)

2023-2025    Postdoc from CIGA, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University—Continued affiliation as a Non-Resident Research Fellow June 2024-June 2025.

2020             PhD in English Literature. NUML.

Thesis/ Dissertation Topic: Questioning Idées Reçues: A Study of Interpellative Strategies and Environmental Ethics in Basharat Peer and Ghada Karmi’s Memoirs.
 

2015-Present                Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

                                      Managing Editor of the NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, NUML, Islamabad 

Jan 2019-Mar 2024      Coordinator, Sophy’s Forum, NUML Islamabad

Jan - June 2015           Lecturer in Department of English Literature and Applied Linguistics NUML Islamabad

Aug 2012- Jan 2015    Lecturer/ Social Events Deviser, NUML Karachi Campus  

Aug 2011- Aug 2012    Lecturer in English, Mass Communication Department, NUML Islamabad

Oct 2007- Aug 2011    Lecturer in Graduate Studies Department/ NUML Peshawar Campus

Oct 2003-Feb 2005     Connoisseur Grammar School, Sargodha

Sep 2001- Aug 2003   Fazaia Model School Badaber, Peshawar 

Oct 1992- Jan1993     Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore 

Sep1988- Mar1993    Sacred Heart Convent School, Lahore 
 



 


 

1.    Rabia Aamir. (31 December 2024). Decolonizing Post-Truths in Mediatic Encounters for Farha (2021) and Half Widow (2017). Journal of Research in Humanities, P-ISSN: 1812-1128, E-ISSN: 2522-6851, 60(2), 25-46. https://jrh.pu.edu.pk/index.php/Journal/article/view/346   

2.    Rabia Aamir, (Autumn 2024) “Qur’ānic Worldview and the Environment: Prophet Muḥammad as an Environmental Ethicist,” Islamic Studies, ISSN (P): 0578-8072, ISSN (E): 2710-5326, 63(3), pp. 315-334. https://doi.org/10.52541/isiri.v63i3.3137 

3.    Ayesha Zahoor & Rabia Aamir. (18 July 2024) “Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary.” Life Writing, ISSN (P): 1448-4528, ISSN (E): 1751-2964, 22(1), pp. 37-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2024.2375657

4.    Aamir R., (2023). Environmental Ethics: Life Narratives from Kashmir & Palestine, Vanguard Books, Lahore: Pakistan. ISBN: 978-969-402-657-2

5.    Aamir R., (2022). “Ecumenical environmental ethics in post 9/11 Pakistan’s diasporic fiction: Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transcultural multiculturalism in south asian literature” in Postcolonial literature: A study of past, present and future trends. Ed. Sakshi Semwal. https://www.flipkart.com/postcolonial-literature-selected-essays-past-present-future-trends/p/itm31a5ca83fc211. ISBN: 9789391943097

6.    Rabia Aamir. (4th Jan 2022) “‘Changed Landscape’ of an ‘Arab Place:’ A Study of an Interpellated Realm in Karmi’s Return” Insight Turkey Vol. 24 / No. 1 / pp. 173-193. DOI: 10.25253/99.2022241.10

  •     Contemporary Literature
  •     Poetry
  •     Decoloniality
  •     Literary Theory
  •     Middle Eastern and Kashmiri Literature
  •     Ecocriticism
  •     Postcolonial Environmental Ethic
  •     Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction and Nonfiction
  •     Iqbaliyat and Quranic Studies
     

Education

2024-2025    Postdoc from CES, University of Coimbra Portugal. (Ongoing)

2023-2025    Postdoc from CIGA, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University—Continued affiliation as a Non-Resident Research Fellow June 2024-June 2025.

2020             PhD in English Literature. NUML.

Thesis/ Dissertation Topic: Questioning Idées Reçues: A Study of Interpellative Strategies and Environmental Ethics in Basharat Peer and Ghada Karmi’s Memoirs.
 

Experience

2015-Present                Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

                                      Managing Editor of the NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, NUML, Islamabad 

Jan 2019-Mar 2024      Coordinator, Sophy’s Forum, NUML Islamabad

Jan - June 2015           Lecturer in Department of English Literature and Applied Linguistics NUML Islamabad

Aug 2012- Jan 2015    Lecturer/ Social Events Deviser, NUML Karachi Campus  

Aug 2011- Aug 2012    Lecturer in English, Mass Communication Department, NUML Islamabad

Oct 2007- Aug 2011    Lecturer in Graduate Studies Department/ NUML Peshawar Campus

Oct 2003-Feb 2005     Connoisseur Grammar School, Sargodha

Sep 2001- Aug 2003   Fazaia Model School Badaber, Peshawar 

Oct 1992- Jan1993     Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore 

Sep1988- Mar1993    Sacred Heart Convent School, Lahore 
 



 


 

Publications

1.    Rabia Aamir. (31 December 2024). Decolonizing Post-Truths in Mediatic Encounters for Farha (2021) and Half Widow (2017). Journal of Research in Humanities, P-ISSN: 1812-1128, E-ISSN: 2522-6851, 60(2), 25-46. https://jrh.pu.edu.pk/index.php/Journal/article/view/346   

2.    Rabia Aamir, (Autumn 2024) “Qur’ānic Worldview and the Environment: Prophet Muḥammad as an Environmental Ethicist,” Islamic Studies, ISSN (P): 0578-8072, ISSN (E): 2710-5326, 63(3), pp. 315-334. https://doi.org/10.52541/isiri.v63i3.3137 

3.    Ayesha Zahoor & Rabia Aamir. (18 July 2024) “Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary.” Life Writing, ISSN (P): 1448-4528, ISSN (E): 1751-2964, 22(1), pp. 37-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2024.2375657

4.    Aamir R., (2023). Environmental Ethics: Life Narratives from Kashmir & Palestine, Vanguard Books, Lahore: Pakistan. ISBN: 978-969-402-657-2

5.    Aamir R., (2022). “Ecumenical environmental ethics in post 9/11 Pakistan’s diasporic fiction: Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transcultural multiculturalism in south asian literature” in Postcolonial literature: A study of past, present and future trends. Ed. Sakshi Semwal. https://www.flipkart.com/postcolonial-literature-selected-essays-past-present-future-trends/p/itm31a5ca83fc211. ISBN: 9789391943097

6.    Rabia Aamir. (4th Jan 2022) “‘Changed Landscape’ of an ‘Arab Place:’ A Study of an Interpellated Realm in Karmi’s Return” Insight Turkey Vol. 24 / No. 1 / pp. 173-193. DOI: 10.25253/99.2022241.10

Interests

  •     Contemporary Literature
  •     Poetry
  •     Decoloniality
  •     Literary Theory
  •     Middle Eastern and Kashmiri Literature
  •     Ecocriticism
  •     Postcolonial Environmental Ethic
  •     Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction and Nonfiction
  •     Iqbaliyat and Quranic Studies