Education
Ph.D. Literary History, Ohio University, Spring 2026 (Expected Graduation)
M.A. English with a specialization in Literary Studies, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, January 2016.
Research Focus
The theoretical space where my mind resides these days is how the transmutation of seventeenth century’s imperial colonialism into today’s neocolonial and capitalistic control on world systems and on human and non-human subjectivities, has created a challenge of form for contemporary anglophone fiction (novel). It’s like focusing on two hows: how does the emergent conversation in decolonial and postcolonial environment complicate the question of how the master story is narrativized?” Being a postcolonial subject myself, and living with a cognizant sense of colonial difference, what I am in search of is the understanding of the “decolonial imaginary,” and “decolonial otherwise,” not specifically reactive postcolonial poetics, not anti-western aesthetics, but the praxis of thinking-doing, doing-thinking beyond the Western epistemic structure. To put it in a narrative context, my work explores how the “decolonial otherwise” complicates the western ontology-based epistemic structure, and makes trans-binary subjectivities, positionalities, and sensibilities visible in aesthetic and narrative form.
Research Grants
- Student Enhancement Award (2024-25) Grants on Proposal titled Exploring, Collecting, Translating Oral, Published, and Folkloric Poetry on Landscape, River, and Climate Change in the South Asian Vernacular Saraiki Language, by College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University.
- CRGP Award (2017-2018) Grants on Proposal titled Exploring the Literary Narrative on River, by Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) of CUI Pakistan.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Ohio University, USA, September 2021- Present.
Adjunct English, Department of English, Columbus State Community College, USA, September 2023- Present.
Courses Taught
ENG-1510: Introduction to Writing, Online Asynchronous, Department of English, Ohio University e-Campus, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2024; SUMM 2024.
ENG-1100: Writing and Composition, Online Asynchronous, Department of English, Columbus State Community College, Ohio, Adjunct English, Fall 2024; Fall 2023.
ENG-1100: Beyond the Master Story: Crossing Culture with Texts, In-person, Department of English, Ohio University, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2024.
ENG-2800: Knowledge/Power Discourse: Writing with Research, In-person, Department of English, Ohio University, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2023; Spring 2023.
ENG-3060J: Feministic Voices, Women and Writing, Online Asynchronous, Department of English, Ohio University, Teaching Assistant, SUMM 2023