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Arooj Ehsan

Dr. Arooj Ehsan

Assistant Professor
Department: English
Email: aroojehsan@gcu.edu.pk
Research Interests: Drama, Theatre, Performance
Biography

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Education
2019  PhD in Drama, Theatre And Performance, Freie Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany

Teaching Areas

English Literature and Language
Experience
From To Designation Firm/Institution
Oct 2006 Continue Assistant Professor Government College University Lahore
Nov 2001 Oct 2006 Lecturer Government College University Lahore

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, 05 (01), 41-48. [Link]

Books (Complete)

Ehsan, Arooj (2020). Disrupting the Symbolic Hamlet: A Semiotic Reading. "Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany". 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

Title Role Funded by Amount Year Status
Women in Action: Leading the charge against Smog Principal Investigator APCEIU-UNESCO 556000.00 2025 Ongoing
Affect, Environment and Theater: SMOG: Stubble-Site-Specific-performance Measures for Operation against the Smoggy Gauze Principal Investigator APCEIU-UNESCO 20400.00 2022 Completed

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

Rabia Yousaf (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Performing Detachment: Analyzing Alienation in Fleabag" (Completed)
Mariam Aman (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Silence in Storytelling: A Study of Ghibli Films" (Completed)
Areesha Khan (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Ethical Dilemmas of Technological Transformation in Life of Galileo and A Number" (Completed)
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)
Sadia Noor Zaman (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Immersive Theatre: A Study of the musical The Onion Cellar" (In Progress)
Falah Bhatti (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Quantum Dramaturgy: Sonic Architectures and Rhythmic Silences in Strindberg's Theatre" (In Progress)
Laiba Shabbir (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Bodily Disconnection as Identity Formation in 4.48 Psychosis" (In Progress)
Syed Ali Hyder Shah (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Corporeality and Conflict: Body as Battlefield in Sarah Kane’s Corpus" (In Progress)
Sidra Kamal (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Performing Vitalism: G. B. Shaw’s Life Force and Posthuman Idols in Selected Contemporary K-Pop" (In Progress)
Tooba Ashraf (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Posthuman Sonic Agency and Acoustic Materiality of NonHuman Echoes in Eugene Ionesco's Theatre" (In Progress)
Areeba Khakwani (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Project on Theatre and Film: An Autoethnographic Visual Study of the Internalized Gaze and a Patriarchal Interpretation of Religion" (In Progress)
Masroor Ahmed (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "People’s Cinema: Creating experimental Film Beyond ArtHouseism" (In Progress)
Hira Ramzan (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Tradition as Spectacle: The Theatrical in the Horse and Cattle Show" (Completed)
Laiba Latif (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Internal reversals: Exploring Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s “Becomings” in Selected Modern Drama" (Completed)
Sara Tahir Bokhari (2025), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Posthuman Phenomenology and Immersion in Heer Ranjha" (Completed)
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)
Hifsaw Shahnawaz (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Ideological Devices and Bond’s Use of Dramatic Reality in Creating a Dystopian World" (Completed)
Zainab Bashir (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Heteroglossia to Polyglossia: Exploring the Desirability of a Distinct Pakistani Idiom in Selected South Asian Novels" (Completed)
Ayesha Naseer Khan (2022), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Ontology of Emotion in Ashfaq Ahmed’s Aik Muhababbat Sau Afsany" (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)
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)
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)
Sameer Ahmed (2011), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Re-Thinking Tragedy: Classical to Post-Industrial" (Completed)
Rabia Gul (2011), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Internalized Quest: A Study of Robert Frost’s Uncanny World" (Completed)
Wajiha Majeed Sandhila (2010), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Langston Hughes-Adventures of A Feminist Sensibility" (Completed)
Rustam A Mir (2009), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "The Search for Existential Paradigm in the Theatre of Harold Pinter" (Completed)
Shafaat Yar Khan (2006), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Shakespeare’s Tragic Villains: The Interplay of the form and the Tragic Idea" (Completed)
Zohaa Abbas (2025), BS. Thesis: "Social Justice and Affective Politics on Social Media" (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)
Syeda Shahar Bano Abbas (2025), BS. Thesis: "Gated communities in Pakistan as performative spaces of environmental crises and urban class stratification" (In Progress)
Muqaddas Zehra (2025), BS. Thesis: "Tracing the Evolution of Love, Loss and Identity in Shina Poetry: A Literary Historical Analysis" (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)
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)
Farhan Aslam (2025), BS. Thesis: "Recreating Lahore’s Memories in its Audial Urbanization" (In Progress)
Roshanay Sukana Pasha (2025), BS. Thesis: "Performing Grief and Power: Khanum Tayaba Bukhari’s Selected Majalis" (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)
Jaria Zainab (2025), BS. Thesis: "Performing Survival: Squid Game and the Affective Afterlives of Korea’s Colonial Past" (In Progress)
Ahmad Zeshan (2025), BS. Thesis: "Rivers, Memory, and Ecological Consciousness in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan" (In Progress)
Muhammad Usama Abdullah (2025), BS. Thesis: "Sohail Ahmed’s Sonic Resistance in Punjabi Theatre" (In Progress)
Ahmad Jamal Raziq (2025), BS. Thesis: "Performative, Sonic and affective dimensions of Selected Protest Slogans from Streets to Screens in Pakistan" (In Progress)
Amna (2025), BS. Thesis: "The Transformative Aesthetics of Immersive Silence and spectators’ relationship to the performing body of Marina Abamovic" (In Progress)
Hira Ejaz (2025), BS. Thesis: "Misrepresentation of Disability in Pakistani Dramas: Ishq Zahe Naseeb, Ranjha Ranjha Karde, and Yeh Dil Mera." (Completed)
Rawhawn Ali (2025), BS. Thesis: "The Effects of Affect: Atmosphere, Emotion, and the Body in Shakespeare’s King Lear" (Completed)
Arooba Kaleem (2025), BS. Thesis: "Reaching God: A study of Performative Physical Postures in Salah" (Completed)
Nawal Gul (2025), BS. Thesis: "Ambivalent Topophilia: Lahore’s City Space in Performance" (Completed)
Naima Sultan (2025), BS. Thesis: "Body as Stage: A study of Liminality and Performed Grief in Sarmad Khoosat’s Kamli" (Completed)
Salman Tahir (2025), BS. Thesis: "Theatre Project: Naksh-e-Kohan: A reworking of Lorca’s Selected Works" (Completed)
Sukhan Saghir (2025), BS. Thesis: "Analysing Terrorist Activities in Pakistan as Theatrical Performances" (Completed)
Syeda Dur-e-Zahra (2025), BS. Thesis: "Embodied Speech Acts and Ethnolinguistic Identity in Sanaz Toossi’s play English" (Completed)
Noor Khalid (2025), BS. Thesis: "The Politics of Representation and Musical Personae in We Are Lady Parts" (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)
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 Akram (2009), BS. Thesis: "The Dialectics of Life and Death in William Shakespeare’s Play Macbeth" (Completed)
Azmat Saeed (2009), BS. Thesis: "Language and Silence in Waiting for Godot" (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)
Fatima Saeed (2008), BS. Thesis: "Tragicomic Depiction of the American Psyche and Family Dynamics in Bruce Norris Clybourne Park" (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)
Azmat Hussain (2004), BS. Thesis: "The use of Expressionism in Death of a Salesman" (Completed)