Biography

I am a multi-disciplinary scholar, working across the Humanities and Social Sciences, particularly Literary Studies, History, and Art History. I am currently working on language politics, Punjabi literature and culture, visual culture, cinema studies, cultural history, and poetics. My previous work revolved around anglophone poetics, translation studies, and anglophone literature in Pakistan.
I have published over 30 journal articles, and have multiple articles under review. I am also currently working on book projects in English and Urdu.
Only selected journal articles and conference presentations have been uploaded here.

Education

• PhD in English Literature, University Of Oregon (USA (Fulbright Scholarship)) 2022
• MS/MPhil in English Literature, University Of Punjab (Lahore, Pakistan) 2013

Teaching Areas

Experience

Journal Papers

• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2026). "A Study in Perspectives: Land, People, and Love in Selected Poems of Nissim Ezekiel." Liberal Journal of Language & Literature Review , Vol. 4 (1) , pp. 1774-1787. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21470750
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob & Tariq, Adnan (2026). "Along the Grain of One’s Own Diary: A 2005 Field Journal as an Archive of Elite–Rural Encounter in Southern Punjab." Dyal Singh Journal of Humanities and Social Science , Vol. 4 (1) , pp. 13-22.
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob, Tariq, Adnan and Shafi, Muhammad (2026). "Never the Twain Shall Meet? Ambivalence, Pedagogy, and the Postcolonial Canon." Journal of Media Horizons , Vol. 7 (3) , pp. 1396-1406. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21899289
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob, Tariq, Adnan and Shafi, Muhammad (2026). "The Lure of the Land in the Poetry of Taufiq Rafat." Journal of Media Horizons , Vol. 7 (2) , pp. 540-549. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21899180
• Ahmad, Shifa and Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2026). "The Marble Mosque and the Delhi Press: Jahanara Begum’s Ajmer Pilgrimage in Urdu Translation, 1643–1891." Sociology & Cultural Research Review , Vol. 5 (1) , pp. 1526-1536.
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob, Tariq, Adnan and Shafi, Muhammad (2025). "An Ecological Shahr Ashob: Literature, Multispecies Loss, and Lahore's Environment." Sociology & Cultural Research Review , Vol. 3 (1) , pp. 1478-1489.
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2025). "Attitudes to Love in the Poetry of Taufiq Rafat." Liberal Journal of Language & Literature Review , Vol. 3 (2) , pp. 698-705. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21622685
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2025). "Dictation and Appropriation: Translation, the National Language, and the Anglophone Subject in Postcolonial Pakistan." Advance Social Science Archive Journal , Vol. 4 (2) , pp. 4659-4669.
• Tariq, Adnan, Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob and Shafi, Muhammad (2025). "From Western Knowledge to Colonial Modernity: The Evolution of Education Policy in Colonial Punjab,1849–1900." Social Science Review Archives , Vol. 3 (3) , pp. 1951-1959. DOI: https://doi.org/10.70670/sra.v3i3.2432
• Hisham, Saba and Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2025). "Negotiating Hybrid Modernities in Contemporary Pakistani Art." Journal of Media Horizons , Vol. 6 (4) , pp. 1277-1287. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21642650
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2025). "Negotiating the Blank: Power and Adequacy in Translation Studies." Policy Research Journal , Vol. 3 (1) , pp. 1308-1316. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21698399
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2025). "Postcolonial Poetry, Anglophone Translation: Sites of Resilience in Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s Luna." Sociology & Cultural Research Review , Vol. 4 (1) , pp. 1427-1433.
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2024). "Almost the Same but Not Quite: The Menace of Domestication in Nissim Ezekiel’s “Very Indian Poems in Very Indian English”." Physical Education, Health and Social Sciences , Vol. 2 (4) , pp. 135-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.63163/jpehss.v2i4.1648
• Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2024). "From Sunrise to Sunset: Toponymic Allegory, the Parodic Riḥla, and the Deferral of the Ideal State in Naguib Mahfouz’s The Journey of Ibn Fattouma." Journal of Religion & Society , Vol. 2 (4) , pp. 902-914.
• Nasrullah, Mamuna and Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob (2024). "The Influence of Colonialism and Racism on Pakistan’s Visual Culture." Advance Social Science ArchiveJournal , Vol. 2 (4) , pp. 1700-1719.

Conference Papers

• AAS in Asia (2026), LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. , Paper: "(Im)mobility, Precarity, and the Language of Labour"
• Fulbright Alumni Conference (2024), Islamabad, Pakistan. , Paper: "Water Wonder: Indigenous Poetry and Climate Change in Pakistan"
• The Environmental History of Lahore (2020), Virtual. , Paper: "The Urban Sprawl and an Angry Ecology: Mapping Literary Representations of Lahore's Environment"
• Translation Studies Symposium (2019), USA. , Paper: "Is Translation Border Crossing?"
• NWMLA Conference (2017), USA. , Paper: "The Subaltern's Subversive Song in "Kubla Khan""
• First International Conference of Pakistani Writing in English (2016), Lahore, Pakistan. , Paper: "Multiplicity of Perspectives in Taufiq Rafat's Poetry"

Awards/Achievements

• Fulbright Scholarship (2017), United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan/Fulbright. I was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for PhD studies in the United States of America.
• HEC Overseas Scholarship (2016), Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. Awarded for PhD studies at University of Wollongong, Australia. Declined and availed Fulbright scholarship instead.