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Sajjad Ali Khan

Dr. Sajjad Ali Khan

Professor / Director / Chairperson
Department: English
Email: sajjadali@gcu.edu.pk
Research Interests: Literary modernism; British romanticism; modern British fiction; narrative form; AI and creativity in literary studies
Biography

Prof Dr Sajjad Ali Khan is a scholar of modern British literature whose work examines how ideas of education, growth, and consciousness move from Romantic thought into the formal and philosophical experiments of Literary Modernism. Trained at the University of Sussex, where he completed his MA and PhD in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought, he works at the intersection of Romantic epistemology, modernist narrative technique, and the evolving concept of the literary self.
His research, published in peer-reviewed Pakistani journals, explores topics such as epiphany, temporality, aesthetic development, and the pedagogical imagination in writers from Wordsworth to Joyce and Forster. Across these studies, he traces how literature models processes of intellectual formation and ethical insight.
Prof Khan supervises research at the BS, MPhil, and PhD levels and regularly examines theses and evaluates academic work for universities across Pakistan. At GCU Lahore, he contributes to curriculum reform, research-led teaching, and disciplinary development through his roles as Professor of English, Director of the Institute of English Language & Literature, and Chair of the Department of English.
He has played a central role in reshaping the curriculum across programmes and in establishing the Institute of English Language & Literature as a consolidated academic home for the discipline.

Education
2013  PhD in Modern & Contemporary Literature, Culture & Thought, University Of Sussex Brighton & UK
2008  Masters in Modern & Contemporary Literature, Culture & Thought, University Of Sussex Brighton & UK
2007  MS/MPhil in English Literature, Government College University, Lahore Lahore & Pakistan

Teaching Areas

Modern British fiction
Literary modernism and modernist narrative form
British romanticism and nineteenth-century literature
Research methodology across BS, MPhil and PhD levels
Critical commentary, textual analysis and close reading
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel
Experience
From To Designation Firm/Institution
Oct 2023 Continue Director, Institute Of English Language & Literature Government College University, Lahore
Sep 2022 Continue Professor, Institute Of English Language And Literature Government College University, Lahore
Jan 2019 Continue Chairperson, Department Of English Government College University, Lahore