Department of English

Rabia Ashraf

Rabia Ashraf
Rabia Ashraf
Lecturer 
Department of English, LCWU
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Qualification

  • PhD English Literature (Ongoing)
    Institute of English Studies, University of the Punjab

    Trajectories of Cultural Trauma and Politics of History in Kashmiri Fiction and Memoir 
    Foreign Fellowship: Completed six-month PhD Fellowship (IRSIP), HEC funded at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 2023. 
  • M.Phil English Literature
    Session: 2012-14, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore

    GPA in Thesis: 3.89, Grade A
  • B.S (Honors) English Literature
    Session 2008-2012

    Lahore College for Women University, Lahore
    CGPA: 3.60 (Merit- 2nd Position)
    Roll of Honor- Best English Debater LCWU-2012 
  • Intermediate:  Govt. College for Women Gulberg, Lahore, Session 2008 
  • Matriculation:  Saint Anthony’s High School, Session 2006

Experience

  • Lecturer English Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, 2017 till date.

Other Experiences       

  • English copy editor/ proofreader, Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Azerbaijann 2016
  • Lecturer, English, COMSATS Lahore, 2014-2017
  • Voluntarily taught ‘History of English Literature’ at University of Education, Lahore, 2017.
  • Voluntarily taught ‘Literary Theory’ to MA at University of Education, Lahore, 201

Courses Taught

  • History of English Literature, Modern Novel, Literary Criticism, postcolonial literature, English Literary Prose, 18th -19th Century English Fiction, Literary theory, History of English Literature, Communication Skills/ Business Communication, Report Writing Skills/ Technical Communication, Creative Thinking & Decision Making, Reading Literary Texts and Vocabulary Development. English Comprehension & Composition, expository writing, functional English.
  • A number of BS English Literature and MS English Literature thesis supervisions

Workshops Conducted

1: Conducted 2 Day Workshop on Creative Thinking & Writing to In Service Teachers of Aligarh Public School Lahore, at COMSATS, Lahore from 11th-12th April 2017.

Courses, Trainings and Workshops Attended

  1. Attended 2 Day Course on ‘Testing and Assessment’, from 28th-29th March, 2019, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore.
  2. Attended 2 Day course on ‘Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals’ from 19th- 20th July 2018 at Lahore College for Women University, Lahore
  3. Attended 2 Day Workshop on PhD Supervisors in English Studies, Institute of English Studies, University of the Punjab, on 24-25 March 2022.
  4. Attended 5 Day Training of Facilitators (ToF), Active Citizenship, organized by British Council at Lahore College for Women University, 29th July0 2nd August 2019.
  5. Completed 3 Day Training on ‘Andragogical/ Pedagogical Skills in Teaching’ from 22-24th January 2018 by Staff Development Academy, Punjab Higher Education Commission.
  6. Participated/ attended 6 day Workshop on ‘Teaching as a Profession’ conducted by Faculty Development Academy (FDA) from 7-12 April 2017, COMSATS Lahore.
  7. Participated/ attended two day Workshop conducted by Faculty Development Academy (FDA) on Testing and Assessment at COMSATS Lahore in October 2014.
  8. Organizer/ participant in one day International History Conference organized by Department of Humanities COMSATS in November 2014.
  9. Organizer/ participant in Two Day International Workshop on Women Empowerment and Leadership held at COMSATS in 2015.
  10. Organizer/ participant Two day National Conference on Emerging Trends in Clinical Psychology, COMSATS Lahore 21-22 September 2016.
  11. Attended training on SPSS- Quantitative Research Methods in January 2016 at COMSATS Lahore.
  12. Attended workshop on Qualitative Research Methods by Urusa Fahim in July 2016, COMSATS.

Other Experiences, Memberships and Events Organized

  1. Judged English Declamation Contest, Aligarh Public School on 17th October 2018.
  2. Judged English Presentations Competition held at Superior University on 31st January 2018.
  3. Member English Debating Society Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, 2017
  4. Script Writer/ Director, play Viyah Da Rola, a Punjabi Adaptation of Lorca’s play, Blood Wedding at LCWU, 2018
  5. Member Sirajud-din Dramatics Society Lahore College for Women University, 2017
  6. Guest Speaker on ‘Women Empowerment and help mass overcome the stereotypes they are facing in their society’ organized by WIE-IEEE CIIT Lahore
  7. Convener 1st, 2nd and 3rd Editions of COMSATS International Model United Nations Conference (CIMUN) for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017.
  8. Member University Proctorial Board at COMSATS Lahore Campus.
  9. Member Students’ Week Committee at COMSATS Lahore.
  10. Content/script writer for speeches- Pak China Business Forum & Psychology Conference.
  11. Organized All Pakistan and Inter Departmental Declamation Contests at COMSATS as faculty advisor.
  12. Organized and moderated Fulbright Scholarship awareness session at COMSATS, 2015
  13. Organized and moderated MS English Inaugural at COMSATS 2015.
  14. Moderated COMSATS All Pakistan English Language and Literature Quiz Competition on April 20- 2015.
  15. Faculty Adviser COMSATS Lahore Debating Society (CLDS).
  16. Mentoring and coaching of students and debaters for participation in various national and international level declamation contests at COMSATS, Lahore
  17. Member Anchoring and Citation Committee for Convocation at COMSATS Lahore
  18. Member Citation, Script Writers and Master of Ceremony, Pak-China Business Forum, COMSATS, Lahore
  19. President of English Debating Society (EDS) of LCWU from 2010-12 and senior member of Shaukat Ara Niazi Literary Society (SAN), Lahore College for Women University Lahore from 2008-12.
  20. Organized Inter- University and Intra University Debate Competitions at LCWU annually during the tenure of Presidency of the society and Preliminary Round of HEC Debates in the university campus consecutive for two years.

Academic and Co- Curricular Achievements

  1. Secured 2nd Position at Provincial Level, English Parliamentary Debates while 3rd Position at Divisional Level, English Debates in Punjab Youth Festival, 2012-13
  2. Won 1st Position in English Debates organized by SMEDA at LCWU in 2012.
  3. Bagged 1st Position in English Debates at Post Graduate College Samanabad, Lahore for the year 2011.
  4. Served as the President of English Debating Society (Parliamentary and Declamation) , Lahore College for Women University Lahore from 2010- 2012.
  5. Secured positions in English Debates conducted by Higher Education Commission, consecutively from 2010- 2012.
  6. Secured 2nd Position in English Debates organized by NAB in 2010, LCWU.
  7. Secured 3rd Position in Chief Minister’s English Essay Writing Competition in 2009.
  8. Selected as ‘Student of the School’, St. Anthony’s High School for the year 2006.
  9. Selected as Student of the School’, St. Anthony’s High School for the year 2003.
  10. Worked as Associate Editor of the ‘Annual School Magazine’ at St. Anthony’s High School for the year 2005.
  11. Achieved 1st Position in English Essay Writing Competition organized by UNO in 2005 at St. Anthony’s High School Lahore
  12. Served as the Chief Prefect of St. Anthony’s High School for the year 2006.

 

Publications

Published Research Papers:
  1. Writing Trauma: Poetics of Cultural Trauma and Memory in Anglophonic Kashmiri Literature. Linguistics and Literature Review. Vol 10, No 2. Fall 2024. 
  1. Construction of Self and Postmodern Consumerism in Richard Matheson's Button Button RJLL, December 2019 
  1. Reconnaissance of Cognitive Maps in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love- Authenticating Life Happily Ever After. Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Azerbaijan, Volume 22, No 2, 2019, 71-82 
  1. Connotative Confluence: Imagery and its functions in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Published in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Azerbaijan, Volume 21, No 3, 2018, 120-135, Khazar University Press 
  1. “…Aspects of My Life That I am trying to Understand Better”: Reinterpreting the Misinterpreted Mother in Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin and The Grass Is Singing published in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 20 № 4 2017, 56-70, Khazar University Press 
  2. Tapping into the Tradition: Tracing the Greco Roman Allusions and Medieval Milieu in ‘the Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus’, Shazia Aziz, Rabia Ashraf and Dr. Mirza Muhammad Zubair Baig (2017), Gomal University Journal of Research, pp: 128-139, Vol: 32, Issue: Special Issue 2, Standard: 1019-8180
  1. Lībās (Garment) Metaphor in Holy Qur'ān: A Conceptual Metaphorical Analysis, published in Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research, Vol 18, Issue 1, 2017
  1. Psychodynamics of Mother Daughter Relationship: Degrees of Deprivation, Oppression and Dispossession in Doris Lessing’s Fiction published in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Volume 20, Number 1, 2017
  1. Recurrence of Romantic Aesthetics in Classicist Writings: A Survey of British Classical Poetry, published in, Elixir Literature. 96. July 2016.
  1. History: Re-written, Revised or Revisited in Gunter Grass’ Crabwalk published in European Academic Research Journal. 3:9 December 2015.
  1. An Optimistic Evolution of Existence in Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah. Published in Language in India.  15:6 June 2015. 

Research Paper Presentations at International Conference

1: Aspects of My Life That I am trying to Understand Better”: Reinterpreting the Misinterpreted Mother Figure in Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin and The Grass Is Singing' at Flora Grand Hotel,  Global Conference on Psychology and Language Research held from 11th-12th October 2017, UAE (funded by COMSATS University, Lahore)

 Research Paper Presentations at National Conferences

  1. Trajectories of Cultural Trauma and Politics of History in Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator, UCP Conference on English Trends, October 2024
  2. Cultural Trauma and Memory in Kashmiri Fiction- COMSATS University, Lahore English Conference- June 2022
  3. 2: Dynamics of Gender, Power and Morality in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl’, presented in a conference on Interactions: Literature, Culture and Globalization, Kinnaird College, Lahore, 6th December 2018
  4. Mothering and Ideology of Peace: Analyzing Ada Aharoni’s “Peace Is a Woman and a Mother”, First International Conference on Peace, Conflict and Violence, 29th-30th November, 2017, COMSATS, Lahore, Pakistan
  5. Reconnaissance of Cognitive Maps in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love- Authenticating Life Happily Ever After’, oral presentation in International Conference of Linguistics Association of Pakistan ICLAP held on 7-9 October 2015 at Kinnaird College for Women Lahore, Pakistan.