Department of English

Faiza Anum

Faiza Anum
Faiza Anum

Lecturer 
Department of English
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EDUCATION

  • M.Phil. in English Literature (2020)
    Institute of English Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore
    Dissertation: “Politics of Subjectivity: A Study of Pakistani Women English-language Poets” (Supervisor: Dr. Rizwan Akhtar) 
  • M.A. in English Language and Literature (2014)
    Institute of English Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore
    Dissertation: “A Deconstructionist Study of Nadine Gordimer’s Jump and Other Stories” (Supervisor: Dr. Shahzeb Khan)
  • B.A. in Economics and Political Science (2012)
    University of the Punjab, Lahore

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore (Feb. 2023 – to date)
    Lecturer (BPS-18)
    Teaching graduate courses on English language and literature & Supervision of BS and MS
    Facilitator Active Citizenship Program (ACP).
    Coordinator E-Prospectus & sub-editor Research Journal of Language and Literature (RJLL) 
  • Department of English, Forman Christian College University, Lahore  (Oct. 2022 – Feb. 2023)
    Lecturer (full-time)
    Taught graduate courses on Critical Reading & Writing and Writing & Communication 
  • Faculty of English, University of South Asia, Cantt Campus, Lahore (Feb. 2021 – Oct. 2022)
    Lecturer (full-time)
    • Taught graduate courses on Content Writing and Presentation
    • Founding Editor of Management Informativo – semesterly E-newsletter of Management Sciences
    • Patron Dramatics Society
    • Member Academic Committee, Admission Committee, University Brand Committee, and Departmental Co- curricular Committee & Manager of Faculty Development Initiatives.
  • Department of English, The University of Lahore, Lahore (Oct. 2016 – Feb. 2021)
    Lecturer (full-time)
    • Taught graduate and postgraduate courses & supervised A. English Literature dissertations.
    • Departmental Program Team member for ORIC (01/2018 – 9/2019).
    • Member Editorial Board The Spectacle – monthly newsletter of the University of
    • Founding Patron of Dead Arts Society – active for reviving the not-yet-dead forms of art in
  • Superior College of Law, Lahore (Dec. 2020 – May 2021)
    English Lecturer (Visiting)

AWARDS/HONORS

  • My Poem “In-between Languagescapes” is featured in GLISH – a special project by the University of Memphis, the US (2021).
  • Received “Faculty Raising Star Award” for the year 2021 from the University of South Asia,
  • Received Punjab University Merit Scholarship in A.
  • Invited as a Delegate in Poetry Festival 2017 by Parveen Shakir Trust,
  • My poem “Travelling Tales” was a finalist for the Open Road Review Poetry Prize in 2015 (judged by K. Satchidanandan, an Indian poet, critic, playwright, translator & literary columnist ).

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

  • “Active Citizenship Boot Camp” (Oct. 07, 2024 – Oct. 11, 2024), LCWU,
  • “Faculty Induction Training” (July 17, 2023 – 22 August, 2023), LCWU,
  • “Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop”, taught by Douglas Kearney, California Institute of Arts (through Coursera). (May 27, 2023)
  • “Pakistan Mandarin and Culture Online Program 2023” (February 06, 2023 – February 10, 2023), Mandarin Learning Center of College of Humanities and Education, Chung Yuan Christian University,
  • “PHEC – Amal Teacher’s Training Program” (August 28, 2021 – September 25, 2021).
  • “HEC Teacher’s Training Workshop for Teaching Academic and Research Writing” (March 2018), HEC Lahore Office.
  • Certified Workshops on “Short Fiction, Novel Writing, Poetry Writing, Drama Writing, Writing for TV, Writing for Radio” (July 18, 2017 - Aug. 03, 2017), Pakistan Academy of Letters, Lahore Office.
  • The Silk Route Writers Workshop, a one-day Poetry Writing Workshop for young writers that took place at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on February 10, The workshop was conducted by the accomplished poet, Sridala Swami, shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Khuswant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry.

PROFESSIONAL TALKS/TRAININGS & PARTICIPATION IN LITERARY FESTIVALS

  • Designed and led a session on “Say ‘Yes’ to Population Welfare”, in collaboration with Punjab Population Welfare Department, at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), on 19th, 2023.
  • Designed and led a workshop on “Integrating Technology in Teaching, Learning and Assessment” for the new faculty, on Sep. 29, 2022, at the University of South Asia, Lahore.
  • Designed and conducted a hands-on workshop on “Academic Writing for Graduate Students” on May 16th & 18th, 2022, at the University of South Asia, Lahore.
  • Designed and delivered a training session on “How to Master Self-esteem” for BBA students, on March 16th, 2022, at the University of South Asia, Lahore.
  • Designed and conducted a training workshop on “Time Management” for Students of BBA on October 6, 2021, at the University of South Asia, Lahore.
  • Organized and moderated a talk with Adnan Ashraf (novelist and editor) on “Discover Storytelling and Creative Flame” at the University of South Asia. July 14, 2021.
  • Designed and conducted a training workshop on “Soft Skills” for the batch of spring 2021 at the University of South Asia. Feb. 08, 2021.
  • Hosted Certificate and Driving License Distribution Ceremony, organized by October 08, 2019.
  • Organized and hosted An Afternoon with Amjad Aslam Amjad and Asghar Nadeem Saeed on Literature and Television. October 09, 2018.
  • Pakistani Literature in English: 2000 - 2010, Pakistan Academy of Letters, Lahore May 04, 2018.
  • Pakistani Literature in English-Language: 2011-2017, organized by Pakistan Academy of Letters in collaboration with the Urdu Department, GCU Lahore. April 11, 2018.
  • Conducted a workshop on ‘Writing Literature Review for Studies in Literature’ for the research scholars and faculty of the Department of English, The University of Lahore. Dec 09, 2017.
  • I read my poetry and administered the event on ‘International Women’s Day’, organized by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Lahore office. 8th March 2017.
  • ‘International Mother Languages Day’, organized by Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), Lahore office. 21st Feb 2017.
  • Pakistani Literature in English: 1980 - 1990, organized by Pakistan Academy of Letters in collaboration with Oriental College, Punjab University, Lahore. February 13, 2017.
  • The Contemporary Scene of Urdu Verse, Parveen Shakir Poetry Festival 2017, organized by Parveen Shakir Trust, Islamabad, Pakistan. 29th January 2017.
  • Modernism and Post-modernism, English Department, Himayat-e-Islam Khawateen College, Lahore, Pakistan. 17th January 2017.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate Courses
  • “Dynamics of Creative Writing”, “Literary Criticism”, “Introduction to Literature - Fiction”, “Introduction to Literature - Prose”, “Functional English” & “Expository Writing” @LCWU
  • ENG-175 & WRCM-101 @ FCCU
  • “Technical Writing”, “Business Communication” & “Content Creation & Presentation Skills” @USA
  • “Contemporary Fiction”, “Introduction to Contemporary Literature”, “Romantic Poetry”, “American Literature”, “Pakistani Literature in English” @UOL
Postgraduate Courses
  • “Comparative Literature” & “Modern and Contemporary Literature” @UOL

DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED

MS Dissertations
  • A Posthumanist Study of Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds (Saman Ishfaq, 2025)
  • Jinns, Churails, and Beyond: Paranormal Traces in Ayesha Muzaffar’s Jinnistan and The Bhabis of Lahore (Subha Yousaf, 2024)
BS Dissertations
  • Violence and Mechanisms of Control: A Foucauldian Analysis of Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Party Worker (Zoha Farooq, 2025)
  • The Endangered Ideals of Democratic Transhumanism in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous (Aliza Niaz Khan, 2025)
  • A Postdramatic Study of Usman Ali’s The Last Metaphor (Khair un Nisa, 2025)
  • Karachi as a Heterotopia in M. Naqvi’s The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack (Mirub Iqbal, 2025)
  • Impact of Attachment Styles on Existential Crisis: A Study of Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man (Ukasha Saeed, 2025)
  • War as a Posthuman force in Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds (Maria Khalid, 2024)
  • Moral Ambivalence: A Study of Postmodern Ethics in Omar Shahid Hamid’s Betrayal (Mariyum Kaleem Toor, 2024)
  • Traumatic Familial Relationships in Tommy Orange's There There (Umaima Jameel, 2024)
  • Moral Relativism in Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice (Mariam Shahid, 2024)
  • A Deconstructionist Study of Beatrice and Virgil (M. Hamza, 2020)
  • Haunting Portrait of Pakistan’s Hub Karachi: An Analysis on institutional spaces of healing in Breath of Death” (Bushra Asghar, 2019)
  • Nomadic Identities and Borderless World in Exit West (M. Siddique, 2019)
  • Ecology, Human Self and Technological Progressivism: A Post-Humanist Study of Get a Life (Kainat Asif, 2018)
  • Globalization, Migration and the Politics of Glocal Identity in Exit West (Madiha Nasir, 2018)
  • Lahore as a Postcolonial and Global City: A Study of Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kiran Amina, 2018)
  • Terrorism and Extremism as Cultural Trauma in The Scatter here is too Great (Yawar Amir, 2018)
  • Karachi as a Heterotopia: A Foucauldian Analysis of Pakistani English Novels (Hira Arshad, 2017)
  • Instincts’, ‘Archetypes’ and ‘Collective Civilization’: A Jungian Analysis of Hussain’s A Chronicle of the Peacocks (Rubab Kazmi, 2017)
  • Things Fall Apart as a Critique of Westernization: A Postcolonial Perspective (M. Kubab, 2017)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

  • Sub Editor, Research Journal of Language and Literature (RJLL), Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore. (March 2025 to date)
  • Sub-Examiner in the subject of English for A. / B.Sc. Annual Examination, University of the Punjab, Lahore (from 2015 to date)
  • Neutral Examiner in the subject of American Literature, for A. English, University of the Punjab, Lahore (from 2017 to date)

Publications

  • Arif, M. & Anum, F. “Grace of Strategic Silence in Postcolonial Resettlement: A Study of J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” Ashe, D., & Clements, C. (Eds.). (2022). Reaching across borderlines: Collected essays from the UNCW-IIUI Department of State partnership. University of North Carolina Wilmington William Madison Randall Library.
  • Faiza Anum, Aniqa Munir, & Saima Najib Chaudry. (2024). Visible/Invisible Plot Structures: A Deconstructionist Study of Nadine Gordimer’s Jump and Other Stories. Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review, 5(3), 89-95. https://doi.org/10.36902/rjsser-vol5-iss3-2024(89-95)
  • Chaudry, N., Munir, A., & Anum, F. (2024). Confronting the Nihilistic Abyss: Active and Passive Nihilists in Philip Larkin’s Poetry. Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12(4), 3020–3030. https://doi.org/10.52131/pjhss.2024.v12i4.2489

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (CONFERENCE PAPERS)

  1. Repoeticizing Women: A (re)reading of Urdu Poetry by Pakistani Women, presented at the International Conference on Literature, themed “Narratives of Resilience: Exploring Resurgence in Global Literature”, organized by the Department of English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore. April 22, 2025 to April 24, 2025.
  2. Science, Biterature and Literary Futurology: An Interdiscursive Reading of Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life, presented at International Virtual Conference: Emerging Trends in the Arts and Humanities, organized by Faculty of Art & Humanities, University of the Punjab, Lahore. 16th June 2021.
  3. Gender, Virtual Spaces and Identity Tourism: A Reading of Hamid’s Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Raising Asia, presented at An International Conference on Geographies of Resistance: Literature, Language and Culture, organized by Department of English, University of Lahore, 20th April 2019.
  4. Intergeneric Exhortations: A Study of Selected News-engaged Poems from Rizwan Akhtar’s Lahore, I am Coming, presented at the 1st International Conference on English Literature, Linguistics and Teaching (ICELLT 2018), organized by the Department of English at the University of Education, Lahore. 13th December 2018.
  5. The Poetics and the Politics of Interlingualism in Hima Raza’s Left-Hand-Speak, presented at the 4th International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan (ICLAP 2018), organized by the Department of English at Fatima Jinnah Women University, in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC), at Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 18th October 2018.
  6. Revolutionizing Blackboards: A Preventive Strategy of Violence, Extremism and Terrorism in The Scatter here is Too Great, presented at 1st International Conference on Peace, Conflict, and Violence, organized by COMSATS University, at Lahore. 30th November 2017.
  7. Grace of Strategic Silence in Post-Colonial Re-settlement: A Study of J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, presented at the Second IIUI-UNCW International Conference: Local Cities, Foreign Capitals: Finding the Local Anchor in the Global Cultures. 9th October 2017.
  8. Cyberspace(s) Versus the Human Subject(s) of Globalization: A Reading of Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a Postcolonial Science Fiction, presented the FCCU Humanities Conference 2017, at Lahore, Pakistan. 13th October 2017.
  9. ‘Imitation’, ‘Figurative’ and ‘Becoming’: Deleuzo-Guattarian Reflections on Pamuk’s My Name Is Red, presented at the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature and Society, at Islamabad, Pakistan. 05th January 2017.

PUBLISHED CREATIVE WRITING

Publications in Anthologies (International)
  • Anum, “Unmasked.” Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology. Edited by Amy M. Alvarez, Pamela Gemme, Shana Hill, and Alexis Ivy, West Virginia University Press, July 2023. (https://wvupressonline.com/essential-voices)
  • Anum, “Climax.” Cadence, Clarendon House Books, 2018, UK.
Publications in International Journals and Magazines (International)
  • Anum, “Ghazal: My Heart.” Eastern Structures, Issue 22, Canada.
  • Anum, “In-between Languagescapes.” The Pinch Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, USA.
  • Anum, “An Early Elegy for Lahore.” Stonecoast Review, Issue 11, USA.
  • Anum, “Poems in the Sky.” Stoneboat Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, USA.
  • Anum, “Ghazal: My Family.” Eastern Structures, Issue 10, Canada.
  • Anum, “Ghazal: My Voice.” The Ghazal Page. Issue 87, Canada.
  • Anum, Faiza; “Ghazal: Like ” The Ghazal Page. Issue 87, Canada.
  • Anum, “A Tale of Two Trees.” The Waggle, Issue 08, Canada.
  • Anum, “An Old Nomadic.” The Text, Issue 01, India.
  • Anum, “Lullabying Lahore.” Transnational Literature (ISSN 1836-4845), Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2018. Flinders University (Australia).
  • Anum, “The Coronation of a Crow.” The Lake (UK), no. 51, June 2018.
  • Anum, “Two Tones.” Antinarrative poetry journal, July 2018.
  • Anum, “Remains.” Illumen, no. 25, Oct 2016, p. 83. Alban Lake Publishing (USA).
  • Anum, “Memory.” Illumen, no. 25, Oct 2016, p. 86. Alban Lake Publishing (USA).
  • Anum, “Lucifer: A Tragedy.” Illumen, no. 25, Oct 2016, pp. 84-85. Alban Lake Publishing (USA).
  • Anum, “Travelling Tales.” Open Road Review, vol. 15, no. 15, Nov. 2015.
  • Anum, “The Mo(u)rning: 16/12 Terrorist Attack on a School in Peshawar, Pakistan.” Yellow Chair Review, Issue. 04, Aug 2015, p. 32.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • Anum, “Forward.” Origins Unveiled. Manshurat, Mansoorah, Lahore. 2025.
  • Alia, (2024). “Now I will not read your Letters” and “Windows of Thought.” (F. Anum, Trans.). Pakistani Literature, (30), 131–132. Pakistan Academy of Letters.
  • Anum, “I am learning peaceful”, in Art is Essential – an exclusive project about redefining the role of art during the testing times of the pandemic, Raft Magazine, USA (January 30th, 2021). https://www.raft.is/p/i-am-learning-peacefulness
  • Anum, “Lahore, I am Coming: Embracing the City’s Cultural Offerings.” Daily Times, Vol. XVI, No. 33, February 12, 2018. https://dailytimes.com.pk/200155/lahore-coming-embracing-citys-cultural- offerings/
  • Anum, “The Nationalism of Fruits, Vegetables, and Foods in World Literature”, on January 20, 2018, in Open Road Review: South Asia’s Leading Magazine of Literature and Culture.

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