Biography

Education

• PhD in Drama, Theatre And Performance, Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany) 2019

Teaching Areas

Experience

Journal Papers

• Dr Arooj Ehsan, Afnan Hafiz (2025). "THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF JAMA’AT: HOW THE MUSLIM CONGREGATION SERVES AS A PERFORMANCE ENHANCER IN THE LIVES OF MUSLIMS." Pakistan Islamicus , Vol. 05 (01) , pp. 41-48. [Link]

Books (Complete)

• Ehsan, Arooj (2020). Disrupting the Symbolic Hamlet: A Semiotic Reading "Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany" , ISBN: 1882853970000 [Link]

Book Chapters

• Arooj Ehsan (2025). Using Drama as a Methodology Combined with GCED to Teach En glish Language and Promote Sustainability , Chapter #5. In Concepts, Projects, and Practices on Global Citizenship Education in Indonesia , 1 ed. (pp.37-41). Susi Fauziah and Mohammad Jepri SEAMEO QITEP in Language. ISBN: 9786239516000

Projects

Awards/Achievements

• 21st Asia-Pacific Training Workshop (2022), APCEIU UNESCO.
• HEC Scholarship for PhD (2013), HEC.
• 7th Faculty Development Course (2006), HEC.
• Scholarship to attend Hornby Summer School (2005), British Council.
• Gold Medal (1999), The University of Punjab. First Postion in English

Thesis/Research Supervisions

• Ahmad Jamal Raziq (2025), BS. Thesis: "Performative, Sonic and affective dimensions of Selected Protest Slogans from Streets to Screens in Pakistan" (In Progress)
• Ahmad Zeshan (2025), BS. Thesis: "Rivers, Memory, and Ecological Consciousness in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan" (In Progress)
• Aiman Laeeq (2025), BS. Thesis: "Romantic love as Performance: An analysis of Francis Thompson’s The Hound of Heaven" (In Progress)
• Ali Gohar (2025), BS. Thesis: "Theatre Project: Non-Verbal Expression in Climactic Moments in the play Escape" (In Progress)
• Amna (2025), BS. Thesis: "The Transformative Aesthetics of Immersive Silence and spectators’ relationship to the performing body of Marina Abamovic" (In Progress)
• Amna Farrukh (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Absurdity of Redemption: Dark Comedy as a Crtique of Violence and Moral Ambiguity in Martin Mc Dough’s In Bruges" (Completed)
• Areeba Khakwani (2025), BS. Thesis: "Project on Theatre and Film: An Autoethnographic Visual Study of the Internalized Gaze and a Patriarchal Interpretation of Religion" (In Progress)
• Areesha Khan (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Ethical Dilemmas of Technological Transformation in Life of Galileo and A Number" (Completed)
• Arooba Kaleem (2025), BS. Thesis: "Reaching God: A study of Performative Physical Postures in Salah" (Completed)
• Falah Bhatti (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Quantum Dramaturgy: Sonic Architectures and Rhythmic Silences in Strindberg's Theatre" (In Progress)
• Farhan Aslam (2025), BS. Thesis: "Recreating Lahore’s Memories in its Audial Urbanization" (In Progress)
• Hira Ejaz (2025), BS. Thesis: "Misrepresentation of Disability in Pakistani Dramas: Ishq Zahe Naseeb, Ranjha Ranjha Karde, and Yeh Dil Mera." (Completed)
• Hira Ramzan (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Tradition as Spectacle: The Theatrical in the Horse and Cattle Show" (Completed)
• Jaria Zainab (2025), BS. Thesis: "Performing Survival: Squid Game and the Affective Afterlives of Korea’s Colonial Past" (In Progress)
• Laiba Latif (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Internal reversals: Exploring Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s “Becomings” in Selected Modern Drama" (Completed)
• Laiba Shabbir (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Bodily Disconnection as Identity Formation in 4.48 Psychosis" (In Progress)
• Mariam Aman (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Silence in Storytelling: A Study of Ghibli Films" (Completed)
• Masroor Ahmed (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "People’s Cinema: Creating experimental Film Beyond ArtHouseism" (In Progress)
• Muhammad Musab Idrees (2025), BS. Thesis: "Suturing the Nation through Theatrics, Liminality and Affective Labor at the Attari – Wahgah Border Parade" (In Progress)
• Muhammad Usama Abdullah (2025), BS. Thesis: "Sohail Ahmed’s Sonic Resistance in Punjabi Theatre" (In Progress)
• Muhammad Yaar (2025), BS. Thesis: "Theatre performance project: Becoming the Roshni Wala: A Performative Experiment into Absurdism and Illumination in Meerza Adeeb’s Theatre" (In Progress)
• Muqaddas Zehra (2025), BS. Thesis: "Tracing the Evolution of Love, Loss and Identity in Shina Poetry: A Literary Historical Analysis" (In Progress)
• Naima Sultan (2025), BS. Thesis: "Body as Stage: A study of Liminality and Performed Grief in Sarmad Khoosat’s Kamli" (Completed)
• Nawal Gul (2025), BS. Thesis: "Ambivalent Topophilia: Lahore’s City Space in Performance" (Completed)
• Noor Khalid (2025), BS. Thesis: "The Politics of Representation and Musical Personae in We Are Lady Parts" (Completed)
• Rabia Yousaf (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Performing Detachment: Analyzing Alienation in Fleabag" (Completed)
• Rawhawn Ali (2025), BS. Thesis: "The Effects of Affect: Atmosphere, Emotion, and the Body in Shakespeare’s King Lear" (Completed)
• Roshanay Sukana Pasha (2025), BS. Thesis: "Performing Grief and Power: Khanum Tayaba Bukhari’s Selected Majalis" (In Progress)
• Sadia Noor Zaman (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Immersive Theatre: A Study of the musical The Onion Cellar" (In Progress)
• Salman Tahir (2025), BS. Thesis: "Theatre Project: Naksh-e-Kohan: A reworking of Lorca’s Selected Works" (Completed)
• Sara Tahir Bokhari (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Posthuman Phenomenology and Immersion in Heer Ranjha" (Completed)
• Sidra Kamal (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Performing Vitalism: G. B. Shaw’s Life Force and Posthuman Idols in Selected Contemporary K-Pop" (In Progress)
• Soofia Fatima (2025), BS. Thesis: "Performing Sorrow: Exploring the Aesthetic of Karuṇ Rasa in the Ecological and Affective Landscapes of songs in Heer Ranjha and Sohni Mahiwal" (In Progress)
• Sukhan Saghir (2025), BS. Thesis: "Analysing Terrorist Activities in Pakistan as Theatrical Performances" (Completed)
• Syed Ali Hyder Shah (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Corporeality and Conflict: Body as Battlefield in Sarah Kane’s Corpus" (In Progress)
• Syeda Dur-e-Zahra (2025), BS. Thesis: "Embodied Speech Acts and Ethnolinguistic Identity in Sanaz Toossi’s play English" (Completed)
• Syeda Shahar Bano Abbas (2025), BS. Thesis: "Gated communities in Pakistan as performative spaces of environmental crises and urban class stratification" (In Progress)
• Tooba Ashraf (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Posthuman Sonic Agency and Acoustic Materiality of NonHuman Echoes in Eugene Ionesco's Theatre" (In Progress)
• Zohaa Abbas (2025), BS. Thesis: "Social Justice and Affective Politics on Social Media" (In Progress)
• Afnan Hafiz (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Unraveling Gems: Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) role in Selected Poetic Performances" (Completed)
• Mahnoor Saleem (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Zia Mohyeddin’s Aesthetics and the Cultural Milieu of Pakistan (1970’s to date)" (Completed)
• Afaq Imran (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Breaking the ‘Absurdist-I’: a Study of Selected Punjabi Plays as Counternarratives to the Neocolonial Ethos of Theater in Pakistani Punjab" (Completed)
• Ayesha Naseer Khan (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Ontology of Emotion in Ashfaq Ahmed’s Aik Muhababbat Sau Afsany" (Completed)
• Hifsaw Shahnawaz (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Ideological Devices and Bond’s Use of Dramatic Reality in Creating a Dystopian World" (Completed)
• Saleyha Mohsin (2022), BS. Thesis: "Anwar Maqsood’s Naach Na Jaany and Angan Tehra: An Expression of Femininity in Art during dictatorship and democracy in Pakistani Drama Industry." (Completed)
• Zainab Bashir (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Heteroglossia to Polyglossia: Exploring the Desirability of a Distinct Pakistani Idiom in Selected South Asian Novels" (Completed)
• Aleema Khan (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Tracing the Performance Space in Pakistan: A study of Sufi Performances of Nusrat Ali Khan and Abida Parveen" (Completed)
• Ayesha Siddiqa (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Spirituality and Modernism: Unveiling the Sufi Tradition through Nietzsche’s Ubermensch Philosophy in Rumi’s Mathnawi and Elif Shagaq’s Forty Rules of Love" (Completed)
• Areesha Batool (2019), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Use of Soliloquy as an Aural Protest and Sonic Weopon in Gregory Doran’s Hamlet and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider" (Completed)
• Ifrah Shahid (2019), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Concept of Lost art and Tradition in The Dancing Girls of Lahore and Nautch Girls of India" (Completed)
• Rabia Javaid (2019), BS. Thesis: "An Exploration of the Changing Dimensions of Indigenous Concept of Queen in Faiqa Mansab’s This House of Clay and Water" (Completed)
• Hussain Munir (2011), BS. Thesis: "A Proletarian Perspective of Pakistani Society in Daniyal Muneenuddin Short Stories" (Completed)
• Naila Iqbal Puri (2011), BS. Thesis: "Dramatic Structure of the Novel Tin Drum by Gunter Grass" (Completed)
• Rabia Gul (2011), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Internalized Quest: A Study of Robert Frost’s Uncanny World" (Completed)
• Sameer Ahmed (2011), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Re-Thinking Tragedy: Classical to Post-Industrial" (Completed)
• Wajiha Majeed Sandhila (2010), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Langston Hughes-Adventures of A Feminist Sensibility" (Completed)
• Azmat Saeed (2009), BS. Thesis: "Language and Silence in Waiting for Godot" (Completed)
• Rabia Akram (2009), BS. Thesis: "The Dialectics of Life and Death in William Shakespeare’s Play Macbeth" (Completed)
• Rustam A Mir (2009), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Search for Existential Paradigm in the Theatre of Harold Pinter" (Completed)
• Fatima Saeed (2008), BS. Thesis: "Tragicomic Depiction of the American Psyche and Family Dynamics in Bruce Norris Clybourne Park" (Completed)
• M. Rauf Malik (2008), BS. Thesis: "Mr. K.K Horouni as a Product of Post-Colonialism" (Completed)
• Zunaira Khalid (2008), BS. Thesis: "A Study of Clybourne Park as the Theater of Transformation" (Completed)
• Saleem Hasni (2007), BS. Thesis: "A Study of T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland and N.M. Rashid’s X Man in Perspective of Existentialism" (Completed)
• Shafaat Yar Khan (2006), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Shakespeare’s Tragic Villains: The Interplay of the form and the Tragic Idea" (Completed)
• Azmat Hussain (2004), BS. Thesis: "The use of Expressionism in Death of a Salesman" (Completed)