Department of English

Mahrukh Bokhari

Mahrukh Bokhari
Mahrukh Bokhari
Professor
Department of English

Qualification

  • Ph.D Scholar (Punjab University) Session 2016-2021

  • M Phil: English from Department of English (PU), Session 2002-2004

  • M. A: English from Department of English (PU), Session 1986-1988

  • B.A: English Literature, Fine Arts, Geography (Opt.) From Lahore College for Women Lahore. Session 1983-1985

  • Three months certificate (short course) in Postcolonial Literature from Department of English (PU) in March-June 2010.

  • B Ed. 1st Division from Allama Iqbal Open University with Teaching of English as a second Language as a major subject in 1994.

Experience    

  • Principal Intermediate College LCWU (Additional Charge) since 14-6-2013 till date

  • Professor (English) at L.C.W.U  

  • Associate Professor (English) at L.C.W.U from 29th May 2012

  • Assistant Professor English at L.C.W.U from 12th September 2003 to 28th May 2012

  • Deputy Secretary Academics/ Establishment Government of the Punjab Education Department Civil Secretariat from Jan 2001 to 31st Dec 2001.

  • Deputy Registrar Admin. & Establishment at Government College University Lahore from June 1999 to Dec 2000.

  • Section officer / Under Secretary Government of the Punjab Education Department Civil Secretariat from April 1996 to June 1999.

  • Lecturer English Lahore College for Women from Oct 1994 to March 1996

  • Section officer Government of the Punjab Education Department Civil Secretariat from Jan 1992 to Oct 1994.

  • Subject specialist in English at Government Teacher’s Training College for Women Sharaqpur from March 1991 to 18th Jan 1992.

  • English Teacher at Lahore Grammar School 37 E/1 Gulberg Lahore from September 1988 to December 1990.

Graduate Students/Postdocs/Undergraduate Students/Honour Students

Name                                      Degree                            Years

Sana Zulfiqar                    MS English                                   2013-2015

Thesis Title: Post 9/11 Trauma and Loss as Portrayed in The Blind Man’s Garden by Nadeem Aslam

Saima Sharif                       MS English                                 2013-2015

Thesis Title: Angst and Alienation in How to Get Fifty Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Maira Maryam                  MS English                                  2012-2014

Thesis Title: The Nexus between Literature and Language In Custody by Anita Desai

Mehak Waheed                 MS English                                   2012-2014 Thesis Title: Aravinda Adiga’s The White Tiger Uncovering the Veneer of “India Rising”

Syeda Zahira Ikram          MS English                                  2014-2016

Thesis Title:  Art of Broken Things- a Study of Modern Disillusionment in Hanif Kureishi’s Short Fiction

3 MS Theses are in the pipeline.

Bahjat Tauqier                     BS (HONS)                              2008-2012

Thesis Title: Kaleidoscopic Adventure of an Anglo-Asian Protagonist in The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi

Ayesha Butt                           BS (HONS)                               2008-2012

Thesis Title: Life In A Remote And Impenetrable Culture In The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad

Ayesha Naseem                       BS (HONS)                             2008-2012

Struggle for Existence in Patriarchal Society in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Ansa Gull                                 BS (HONS)                            2007-2011

Thesis Title: Feministic Perspective of Lorca’s Rural Trilogy

Sumaira Azmat                       BS (HONS)                             2005-2009

Thesis Title: Concept of Body and Soul in Walt Whitman’s Poetry

Service Activity

Have been serving on various committees such as: Eligibility Committee (Convener), Legal Committee related to legal matters of teaching and non-teaching staff (Convener), Service Structure Committee (Member), Intermediate Academic Committee of BISE, Lahore (Member), Disable Support Committee (Member), Committee to resolve the anomaly & seniority issues of LCWU (Member), Promotion Committee of LCWU for BS 1-16 (Member), Scrutiny Committee (Member), Assessment Committee (Member), President Inter Collegiate Sports Committee BISE, Lahore, BOS MS & BS English Department LCWU (Member), Scholarship Committee (Member), Physical Inspection Committee (Member), Purchase Committee (Member), Committee to Assess the workload of Teaching Faculty (Convener), Space Allocation Committee (Member), Faculty Grievance Committee (Member), Student Grievance Committee (Member), Committee for Fitness Center & Gymnasium (Member).

Brief Statement of Research Interest

Configuration of Disability and Difference in Contemporary Pakistani Novel in English

Publications


  • Research Journal of Language and Literature (RJLL) ISSN 2518-2471; Volume 3; December (2018)
    Title: “Globalized Mobility through Fluid Dynamics of Pakistani Fiction”
  • Research Journal of Language & Literature (RJLL) ISSN 2518-2471; Volume 1; Issue 1; December (2016)

    Title: “Self Through Language in Hanif Kureshi’s Buddha of Suburbia (1990)”

Research Grants and Contracts.

HEC funded visit to the International Islamic University Malaysia in April 2019 which resulted in signing of a LOI between English Department LCWU and English Department IIUM and joint publication of the book Bridge:

Delegates from the English Department IIUM visited LCWU in October 2019 for a joint symposium on 29, 30, 31 October, 2019

Other Research or Creative Accomplishments

Approximately 8 publications in Kiran Magazine both in English and Urdu.

The theme poem for the joint symposium held in collaboration with IIUM was published in the Bridge.

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