Prof Dr. Arif Jawaid
Dean of Languages / Professor
Prof Dr. Arif Jawaid
Qualification: Ph.D (Education/TESOL). University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom (1995) (Received Best research award for Ph.D.)
Specialization: Benchmarking in TESOL
Qasim Ali
Lecturer | Head of Department
Qasim Ali
Qualification: M.Phil English Literature
Specialization: Postmodern Literature, Posthuman Literature, Modern Poetry, Victorian Novel, Research Methodology, Literary Theory
Research Interest: Postmodernism, Posthumanism, Subaltern Studies, Metanarratives, Psychoanalysis, Ecofeminism
Official Email: [email protected]
Publication:
1. Kharal, Q. A., Shaheen, A., & Yusuf, S. (2024). BEYOND THE MASK OF MORALITY: DECONSTRUCTING LARKIN’S SELECTED POEMS TO REVEAL SEXUAL LIBERATION. *Social Science Review Archives*, 2(2), 298-311.
2. Kharal, Q. A., Tahir, S., Batool, A., & Yaqoob, H. (2024). Unveiling the Plights of Prostitutes: An In-Depth Exploration of *Anandi* by Ghulam Abbas Through the Lens of Feminism. *Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies*, 2(2), 1275-1302.
3. Kharal, Q. A., & Batool, M. (2024). Unravelling the enigma of time: A critical analysis of time and temporality in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s *One Hundred Years of Solitude*. *Journal of Literary Studies*, 12(3), 45–60.
4. Kharal, Q. A., & Rani, U. (2024). The Role of Personality Types in the Conflict between the Iconic Couple, Elizabeth and Darcy in *Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen: A MBTI Analysis. *Social Science Review Archives*, 2(2), 971-982.
5. Kharal, Q. A., Iqbal, R., & e Kamil, M. (2025). The Dark Mind: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Voldemort in J.K. Rowling’s *Harry Potter*. *Liberal Journal of Language & Literature Review*, 3(1), 148-163.
6. Kharal, Q. A., Mustansar, A., & Tahir, S. (2024). A Psychoanalytic Reading of Eustacia Vye: Exploring the Philosophy of Hardy’s Tragic Heroine. *Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review*, 8(4), 55–63. https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2024(8-IV)06
7. Samra Yousaf, & Kharal, Q. A. (2024). Intertwined Lives of Women and Nature: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the novel *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* by Betty Smith. *Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies*, 2(2), 1105–1125. Retrieved from https://jals.miard.org/index.php/jals/article/view/147
8. Tariq Usman, Hasnain Ahmed Khan, & Qasim Ali. (2024). VOICES ACROSS THE BORDER: A POLYPHONIC AND DIALOGIC STUDY OF MANTO’S *MOTTLED DAWN*. *International Journal of Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences*, 3(1), 1426–1432. Retrieved from https://ijciss.org/index.php/ijciss/article/view/566
9. Kharal, Q. A., Naseem, S., & Muhammad, H. (2022). Deconstructing the Metanarrative of Jihadism: A Postmodern Study of Fatima Bhutto’s Novel *The Runaways*. *Journal of English Language, Literature and Education*, 3(4), 36-53. https://doi.org/10.54692/jelle.2022.0304110
10. Kharal, Q. A., & Ashraf, S. (2021). Formation of Identities through Diaspora: A Postcolonial Reading of *Burnt Shadows* by Kamila Shamsie. *Journal of English Language, Literature and Education*, 3(2), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.54692/jelle.2021.030287
11. Qasim Ali Kharal, Zona Zafar. (2020). Vision and Blurriness: A Postcolonial Study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s Novel *The Geometry of God*. *International Journal of Literature and Arts*, 8(4), 185-190. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20200804.12
Dr Nausheen Ishaque
Associate Professor
Dr Nausheen Ishaque
Qualification: PhD English Literary Studies
Area of Specialization: Literary Feminisms of the Third World; Islamic Feminism
Research Interest:Migrant Literature; Diasporic Literature; Comparative Anglophone Literature; Contemporary Literary & Cultural Theory
Official Email:[email protected]
Publication:
“Research Publications (in Indexed Journals)
1. Nausheen Ishaque٭. ‘Violence Ritualized: The Chemistry of Tradition and Religion in Qaisra Shahraz’s The Holy Woman’ in SAGE Open (recognized by HEC in its W category), January-March 2017: pp. 1-8. Available at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244017701527
(Indexed with SSCI Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ and others; Quartile Q1)
2. Nausheen Ishaque٭. ‘Empowerment through Disempowerment: Harem and the Covert Female Resistance in Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood’ in Cultural Dynamics (recognized by HEC in its X category), February 2019: 30 (4), pp. 284-302. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374019828855
(Indexed with Scopus; Quartile: Q2)
3. Nausheen Ishaque٭, Sadia Bibi, Mohammad Afzal Faheem & Chaudhary Hussnain Rasheed. ‘Traversing the Origin and Diaspora: Leila Aboulela’s Minaret in the Light of Miriam Cooke’s Transnational Muslim Feminist Sensibility’ in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (recognized by HEC in its W category), 40:4, 694-706, DOI: 10.1080/13602004.2020.1836596
(Publisher: Routledge; Quartile: Q2)
4. Nausheen Ishaque٭. ‘Reclaiming the Female Body in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero’ in Forum for World Literature Studies (recognized by HEC in its X category), December 2019, pp. 631-646. Available at http://www.fwls.org/uploads/soft/200424/1-200424231148.pdf
(Indexed with Scopus; Quartile: Q3)
5. Mohammad Afzal Faheem & Nausheen Ishaque٭. ‘Marginalization, Mimicry and Subversion: A Bhabhian Reading of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ in Forum for World Literature Studies (recognized by HEC in its W category), Vol. 13, No. 2, June 2021, pp. 224-233. Available at http://fwls.org/uploads/soft/210730/1-210I0142639.pdf
(Indexed with Scopus; Quartile: Q3)
6. Nausheen Ishaque٭ & Saba Riaz. ‘Claude Jutra’s Surfacing (1981) through Visual Spectacles: Framing Female Body, Voyeurism and Paranoia’ in Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (recognized by HEC in its Y category), May 2020, 13 (2), pp. 111-120. Available at https://doi.org/10.1386/jafp_00020_1
(Indexed with ESCI Web of Science, MLA, EBSCO)
7. Nausheen Ishaque٭. ‘The Burden of Female Body: An Islamic Feminist Reading of Qaisra Shahraz’s Typhoon’ in International Journal of Islamic Thought (recognized by HEC in its W category), Vol. 19, June 2021, pp. 79-88. Available at http://www.ukm.my/ijit/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IJIT-Vol-19-June-2021_9_79-88.pdf
(Indexed with ESCI Web of Science, Scopus; Quartile: Q3)
8. Nausheen Ishaque٭ & Muhammad Afzal Faheem. ‘Demonizing Africa’: A Bend in the River and Naipaul’s Comprador Intellectuality’ in Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences (recognized by HEC in its Y category) Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2021, pp. 595-604. Available at https://ramss.spcrd.org/index.php/ramss/article/view/161
(Indexed with CrossRef, ProQuest, Google Scholar)
9. Muhammad Afzal Faheem & Nausheen Ishaque.٭ ‘Decentering the West: Tracing the Postcolonial Bildungsroman in Naipaul’s A Bend in the River’ in Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review (recognized by HEC in its Y category) Vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 2021, pp. 12-19. Available at https://ojs.rjsser.org.pk/index.php/rjsser/article/view/357/217
(Indexed with DRJI, Index Coprenicus)
10. Namra Najam, Areej Shahid & Nausheen Ishaque٭. ‘Gender Performativity and Fluctuating Hieracrchies: A Postmodern Feminist Study of Gillian Flynne’s Gone Girl’ River’ in Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review (recognized by HEC in its Y category) Vol. 2, No. 2, April – June 2022, pp. 48-55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36902/rjsser-vol2-iss2-2022(48-55)
(Indexed with DRJI, Index Coprenicus)
Research Publications (Others)
• ‘Revisiting Postcolonial Feminism and Theology: A Literature Review’ in Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2, No. 4, November 2013. Available at http://www.ajssh.leena-luna.co.jp/AJSSHPDFs/Vol.2(4)/AJSSH2013(2.4-34).pdf
• ‘Education and Peace: Effects of Terrorism on the Situation of Education in KPK’, a research paper presented at International Multidisciplinary Conference Towards Better Pakistan, September 2012, Peshawar and published in Sarhad University International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences Vol.1 , No. 1, April 2013.
• ‘Muslim Feminist and Transnational Networking in Asia: Upholding the Origin and Diaspora’ in Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization, Vol. 8, 2012. Available at http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JLPG/article/view/3749
• ‘[De]Constructing the Feminine: Addressing the Postmodern Feminist Syndrome’ in Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2013. Available at http://pakistaniaat.org/index.php/pak/article/view/215
Mr. Naseer Ahmed
Senior Lecturer
Mr. Naseer Ahmed
Qualification: M.Phil. (Applied Linguistics)
Area of Specialization: Second Language Acquisition
Research Interest: Second Language Acquisition
Official Email:[email protected]
Ms. Javaria Tariq
Senior Lecturer
Ms. Javaria Tariq
Qualification: M.Phil TESOL, Ph.D TESL (in progress)
Area of Specialization: Academic Reading and Writing Skills, Curriculum Development, Syllabus Designing, Language Testing and Evaluation, Research Methodology
Research Interest:Academic Reading and Writing Skills, Curriculum Development, Syllabus Designing, Language Testing and Evaluation, Conouter Assisted Langauge Learning, Contextualised Teaching and Learning
Col. Zahir Hashmi
Senior Lecturer
Col. Zahir Hashmi
Qualification: MPhil Applied Linguistics
Area of Specialization: Applied Linguistics
Research Interest: Applied Linguistics
Official Email: [email protected]
Publication:
1. Jahan, K., Hashmi, Z.I., & Khan, H. (2024). The illusion of reality: Stylistic elements and thematic depth in Poe’s A Dream Within a Dream. International Journal of Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences, 3(3), 3154–3164. https://ijciss.org/index.php/ijciss/article/view/1512 2. Jahan, K., Hashmi, Z. I., & Khan, H. (2024). ‘We will take care of you’: Identity categorization markers in an interview with transgender individuals. International Journal of Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences, 3(3), 1498–1509. https://ijciss.org/index.php/ijciss/article/view/1310
Ms. Maria Aleem
Senior Lecturer
Ms. Maria Aleem
Qualification: MPhil English Literature
Area of Specialization: Pakistani Literature, Feminism
Research Interest: Gender Studies, Pakistani Literature
Official Email:[email protected]
Publication:
1. M Haroon, M Ahmed. Challenging Patriarchal Dominance: Jessie Burton’s The House of Fortune and the Female Protagonist’s Quest for Autonomy. Journal of English Language, Literature and Education 5 (4), 94-115, 2023. 2. M Haroon, A Khalil. Commodification and Objectification of Women in Shahid Nadeem’s Plays Kala Meda Bhes (Black is My Robe) and Dukhini (Woman of Sorrow). Journal of English Language, Literature and Education 3 (3), 15-26, 2022. 3. N Ishtiaq, J Tariq, K Khalid, N Ahmed, M Haroon, T Saddique. Marxist Alienation in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Short Stories.International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research 10 (2), 1256-1263, 2019.
Muhammad Akram
Lecturer
Muhammad Akram
Qualification: M.Phil English Literature
Specialization: Postcolonial Literature, Disability Literature
Research Interest: Literary Theories
Official Email: [email protected]
Publication:
1. Research publication at Lahore Garrison University research journal (NCELLE-2024) under the title “Unveiling the Disability: A Study of Social Discrimination in Contemporary American Memoires” (Co-author: Dr. Najia Asrar Zaidi), in HEC approved National “Y” Category journal (March, 2025).
2. Online paper presentation at National Conference held at Lahore Garrison University (NCELLE-2024) under the title “Unveiling the Disability: A Study of Social Discrimination in Contemporary American Memoire” (07 November, 2024).
3. Online paper presentation at International Linguistics Conference held at University of Balochistan (ICLAP-2024) under the title “Artificial Intelligence and Literary Research: A Comparative Study of Traditional and Smart Method of Literature Review” (04 October, 2024).
4. Research publication under the title “Unveiling the Disabilities: A Study of Social Discrimination in the Memoire – Being Heumann” (Co-author: Dr. Najia Asrar Zaidi), in International “X” Category journal Migration Letters UK (July, 2024).
5. Research publication under the title “Impact of Colonialism on Environment: A Socio Ecological Study of Twilight in Delhi” (Co-author: Dr. Najia Asrar Zaidi), in International Research Journal of Azerbaijan (February, 2022).
6. Online paper presentation at International Literary Conference held by Khazar University Azerbaijan (ICLAP-2021) under the title “Unveiling Bias: Image of Muslim Women in English Literature” (Co-authors: Dr. Najia Asrar Zaidi & Sikander Hussain) (September, 2021).
7. Online paper presentation at International Literary Conference held by Khazar University Azerbaijan (ICLAP-2021) under the title “Impact of Colonialism on Environment: A Socio Ecological Study of Twilight in Delhi” (Co-author: Dr. Najia Asrar Zaidi) (September, 2021).
Ms. Rabia Rehman
Lecturer
Ms. Rabia Rehman
Qualification: M.phil English Linguistics, TESOL Expert
Area of Specialization:Applied Linguistics, IELTS
Research Interest: Technology enriched teaching, Applied Linguistics, IELTS
Official Email:[email protected]
Publication:
1.Teaching Challenges of IELTS Test Preparation; Speaking section: An Exploratory research.
2. The Challenges Pakistani Students Faced in International English Language Testing System (IELTS); Listening Section: An Exploratory Research.
3.Research Innovation in Technology Oriented Task-Based Language Teaching: A Library Research
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Hassan Khan
Lecturer
Hassan Khan
Qualification: M.Phil English Literature
Specialization: Post-colonial Literature, American Literature, Classical poetry
Research Interest: Post Colonial Literature
Official Email: [email protected]
Publication:
1. Jahan, K., Hashmi, Z.I., & Khan, H. (2024). The illusion of reality: Stylistic elements and thematic depth in Poe’s A Dream Within a Dream. International Journal of Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences, 3(3), 3154–3164. https://ijciss.org/index.php/ijciss/article/view/1512 2. Jahan, K., Hashmi, Z. I., & Khan, H. (2024). ‘We will take care of you’: Identity categorization markers in an interview with transgender individuals. International Journal of Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences, 3(3), 1498–1509. https://ijciss.org/index.php/ijciss/article/view/1310 Challenging Stereotypes of Racial Discrimination in the
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The Problem of Asymmetric Representation: The
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Politics of Marginalization and Representation in “I am
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Ms. Saba Sarwar
Lecturer
Ms. Saba Sarwar
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Ms. Rubeena Ghaffar
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Ms. Rubeena Ghaffar
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Mr. Abu Bakar Ahmed
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Mr. Abu Bakar Ahmed
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Mr. Khawar Ali
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Mr. Khawar Ali
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Mr. Waqas Ahmad
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Mr. Waqas Ahmad
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Ms. Noor Fatima
Lecturer
Ms. Noor Fatima
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Ms. Humail Awan
Assistant Lecturer
Ms. Humail Awan
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Ms. Maryam Iftikhar
Assistant Lecturer
Ms. Maryam Iftikhar
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Ms. Maria Hanif
Assistant Lecturer
Ms. Maria Hanif
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