Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Government College University, Lahore, where I have been teaching since 1999. I hold a PhD in English from the University of Leeds, UK, and an MA in English Literature from the University of Sussex. My academic interests include Pakistani Anglophone fiction, Modern British fiction, Literary Theory, Postcolonial Studies, and Pandemic Literature.

I teach across undergraduate and MPhil programmes and have designed and revised a wide range of courses in literary studies, including Literary Theory, Pakistani Anglophone Fiction, Modern British and Postcolonial Fiction, and Literatures of the Pandemic. I have supervised numerous BS and MPhil theses exploring contemporary critical frameworks such as feminism, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and biopolitics.

I have presented papers at academic conferences in Pakistan and the United Kingdom. I am currently working on a monograph titled Space-Body Dynamics in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction.

In addition to teaching and research, I have held various academic and administrative roles at GCU, including Programme Coordinator for the MPhil English Literature programme and Editor of the departmental research journal Explorations.

Education

• PhD in English Literature, University Of Leeds (Leeds (U.K)) 2018
• Masters in Twentieth Century Literature, University Of Sussex (Sussex (U.K)) 2002
• Masters in English Literature, GCU, Lahore (University Of Punjab) (Lahore, Pakistan) 1995
• BA/BSc(Hons) in English Literature, Philosophy, Kinnaird College For Women, Lahore (University Of Punjab) (Lahore, Pakistan) 1991

Teaching Areas

Experience

Journal Papers

• Ali, M, Dogar, S.F (2025). "Shameen from Haseena Moin’s Kohar: A Melancholic Character in Mist." Journal of Contemporary Poetics , Vol. 8 (2) , pp. 80-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54487/jcp.v8i2.7229 [Link]
• Ali, M, Dogar, S.F (2023). "Moving on Fluvial Land: Human Migration and Liquid Identities in Shiv K. Kumar’s A River with Three Banks." The Goose , Vol. 20 (1) , pp. 1-28. [Link]

Conference Papers

• Aesthetics of Drone Warfare (2020), Sheffield, U.K. , Paper: "“The Act of Seeing: Drone Vision in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner than Skin”"
• Blue Humanities and World Literature Symposium (2019), Warwick, U.K. , Paper: "‘Resistance by the Sea in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses’"
• The British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2018: Environments of Literature and Science (2018), Cardiff, Wales, U.K. , Paper: "‘The Environment of Science in Pakistan: A Study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s novel The Geometry of God’"
• ‘A Room of Her Own: Writing Women's Independence around the Globe: A Women's Paths Symposium’ (2016), Leeds, U.K. , Paper: "‘Women Travellers vs Male Explorers in Kamila Shamsie's essay ‘A Room, With A View, Of One's Own'’"
• An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel, entitled 'There and back again' (2015), Nottingham, U.K. , Paper: "“Travel and Mapping in Kamila Shamsie's Kartography”"
• Reframing Disaster Conference (2014), Leeds, U.K. , Paper: "“Tsunami as metaphor: Political rhetoric or real change in Pakistan?”"
• Resources of Resistance: Production, Consumption, Transformation, The Biennial Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA) conference, (2014), York, U.K. , Paper: "‘Water “Matters”: Water as a Resource of Exploitation and Resistance in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing’"
• The Literary Present and the Postcolonial Condition (2012), Islamabad, Pakistan. , Paper: "‘The Figure of the Stranger in Jamil Ahmad’s The Wandering Falcon’"

Projects

Thesis/Research Supervisions

• Maryam Siddiqa (2025), BS. Thesis: "Religion vs Absurdist Philosophy: A Study of Grief in Camus’ The Plague" (Completed)
• Umamah Farooq (2025), BS. Thesis: "Disability and Role Reversal: Reimagining Power and Control in Mother Daughter Relationships in Claudia Piniero’s novel Elena Knows" (Completed)
• Anamta Shoukat (2024), BS. Thesis: "Women’s Clothing as Resistance in Selected Pakistani Fiction" (Completed)
• Muhammad Murad (2024), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Fostering Compassion through the Reading of Pandemic Literature" (Completed)
• Parwarasha Nazir (2024), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Beyond Race: Erasure of Asian-American Experience in Hollywood Cinema" (Completed)
• Syed Ali Osjah Naqvi (2024), BS. Thesis: "Exploring Unfulfilled Love: A Phenomenological Analysis of Consciousness and Subjectivity in The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller" (Completed)
• Syeda Afia Batool (2024), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Decoding Neoliberal Manoeuvres in Siri Who Am I? by Sam Tschida and People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd" (Completed)
• Abeera Manahal (2023), BS. Thesis: "Representation of Climate Change Crises in Oana Aristide’s Under the Blue" (Completed)
• Aman Erfan (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Transcoporeal Bodies and the “Weird”: Posthuman Materialities in Selected Contemporary East Asian Women’s Fiction" (Completed)
• Ayesha Khalid (2023), BS. Thesis: "Evocation of Bird Mythology and Aerial Trajectories in Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s Shehar Khali, Koocha Khali" (Completed)
• Kashaf Iqbal (2023), BS. Thesis: "Pandemic, War and their Corresponding Consequences: A Study of Traumas and New Normal in Katherine Anne Porter’s “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” and Susan Meissner’s As Bright As Heaven" (Completed)
• Khazima Fatima (2023), BS. Thesis: "Sensory Apparatuses and Life in a Pandemic: The Case of Perfect Sense by David Mackenzie and Blindness by Fernando Meirelles" (Completed)
• Rubab Batool (2023), BS. Thesis: "Revisiting Roxane Marie Galliez’s Stories in the Wake of COVID-19: A Study of the Experiences of Children during Pandemic" (Completed)
• Shamama Madni (2023), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "“Divine Mania” in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot and Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge" (Completed)
• Hira Ramzan (2022), BS. Thesis: "Reading Katherine Anne Porter’s “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” in the time of Corona: A Psychological Reader Response Study of the Novel" (Completed)
• Ayesha Shahid (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Survival Strategies in Host Lands: Contextualizing Novels of Fatima Bhutto" (Completed)
• Muhammad Ali (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "“Heavy Waters” of the Subcontinent: A Hydro-critical Analysis of Partition Literature" (Completed)
• Saira Batool (2021), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Environmental Impact of Urbanization in selected works of Kamila Shamsie and Mohsin Hamid" (Completed)
• Humaira Tariq (2010), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Tracing immigrant consciousness in Pakistani novels in English" (Completed)
• Naila Sahar (2007), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Historical, Political and Personal in Kamila Shamsie's Selected Works" (Completed)
• Saman Khalid (2007), MS/MPhil. Thesis: "Jean Rhy's Women-Passive or Valiant? Search for Identity Through Art of Diction" (Completed)