Experience     

18.10.2012 to date. Lecturer, Lahore College for Women University. 

I have taught various courses at undergraduate and graduate level at Lahore College for Women University. These include:

Modern Novel

American Literature

South Asian Literature

Literary Theory and Criticism

Graduate Students/Postdocs/Undergraduate Students/Honour Students

Supervision of graduate students, postdocs and undergraduate honors theses showing:

Years   Degree Name of Student Dissertation Title

MS English Literature. 

2016

Mahtab Khalid- “Interpretation through the Medium of Law of Closure-A Case Study of Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco”. Submitted.

Nigar Asif-“Istanbul as a Palimpsest Text in Orhan Pamuk’s Novels”. Ongoing. 

2015

Samina Guftar- “Sufism in the Aftermath of

Postmodernity – An Analysis of Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love and Discourses of Rumi

(Translated by A.J Arberry)”. Completed.

Mehtab Alvi- “Power and Gender Dynamics in Infinite Riches by Ben Okri”. Ongoing. 

2014

Areeba Tayyab- “Archetypes and Archetypical Psychology: A Comparative Analysis of Characterization in Persian Dastan Culture and Greek Epic Tradition”. Completed. 

Faiza Jabbar- “Refiguring Historical Narratives in Shamsur

Rahman Faruqi’s The Mirror of Beauty”. Completed. 

2013

Mehwish Hina. “Future Imperfect-Blysspluss and Promise of Alternate Historiography in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy”. Completed. 

2012.

Nadia Anwar. “Aesthetics of Displacement in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction”. Completed.

Brief Statement of Research Interest

My primary area of interest is Comparative Literature, Vedic Mythology and Translation studies. My areas of concentration include 19^th century Urdu Literary trends, such as Dastangoyi and English and Urdu Detective Fiction.