BIOGRAPHIC NOTES Abdy Zahiri teaches in the department of English and Liberal Studies. He has published essays on V.S. Naipaul, postcolonial theory and translation, an essay on Frantz Fanon and the Iranian Revolution (forthcoming). He is currently working on a book on the Sikh diaspora in West Asia (Iran and Afghanistan).
Ambreen Hai is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, where she teaches Anglophone postcolonial literature, contemporary literary theory, and literature of the British Empire. She is the author of Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, and many scholarly articles on postcolonial writing, and is currently working on a book project on domestic servitude in South Asian Anglophone literatures.
Amrita Mishra is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UT Austin. Her dissertation focuses on literary representations of Indian indentured labor in contemporary Indo-Caribbean women's novels. She looks at how fiction and the colonial archive make visible the intimacies between indenture and slavery, and between Indian anti-colonial movements and anti-indenture campaigns. Her research on literary representations of indenture and the border industrial complex is forthcoming in a journal article in Tabula Rasa.
Amritjit Singh is Langston Hughes Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University. Past President of MELUS and SALA, he received the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 and the SALA Distinguished Achievement Award in Scholarship in January 2014. Singh has published over 15 books. In 2017, Fairleigh Dickinson UP published a festschrift titled Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh.
Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, wrote his PhD dissertation on the subaltern and native informant in diasporic Indian English fiction. His research interests also include film studies and animal representations in postcolonial literatures. He has served as Executive Committee member of the South Asian Literary Association, and is currently the Web Manager for the organization.
Arka Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies in the department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Gandhinagar, India. He works on Global Modernisms, Philosophy and World Literature. He is published in journals like Textual Practice, Interventions, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Samuel Beckett Today, Harold Pinter Review etc. He is the author of Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real, published by Bloomsbury in 2018. He edits the open-access online journal Sanglap.
Asif Iqbal is a doctoral candidate. His project "Two Partitions: Postcolonial Culture and Nation Formation in Bengali, Bangladeshi, and Anglophone South Asian Literatures" is a multilingual exploration of literature informing the formation of Bangladesh as a political and discursive construct, as it evolved from the 1947 entity called "East Pakistan" to the sovereign nation of Bangladesh. His research interest pertains to Global Anglophone and World Literatures as well as South Asian literatures and films. As a creative writer, Iqbal has contributed to publications such as Maps & Metaphors: Writings by Young Writers from Bangladesh and United Kingdom (2006) and 9th Edge: Creative Writings from Bangladesh (2012).
Asma Sayed is a professor of English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and President of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. She specializes in South Asian Canadian diaspora, postcolonial studies, and feminist cultural studies. Her interdisciplinary research and social activism focus on marginalization of gendered and racialized people and violence against women as represented in literature, film, and media. Her publications include several books and multiple articles in academic journals and anthologies.
Bharti Kirchner is a well-published novelist, journalist, and cookbook writer. She is currently working on her eighth novel, titled SEASONAL DISORDER, set mostly in Andaman Islands. See: https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/kirchner-bharti- 1940.
Binod Paudyal is a lecturer in the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University, where he teaches and researches ethnic studies, particularly Asian American studies, as well as South Asian diaspora and postcolonial studies. Binod has published articles on Asian American literature, and he is currently working on his first book manuscript, The Trouble with Identity: Asian American Literature in the 21st Century.
Charles Johnson is a novelist, short story writer, philosopher, activist, cartoonist, and essayist. Johnson is the author of many works, including the novel, Middle Passage, that won the National Book Award in 1990. See: http://www.oxherdingtale.com/.
Charu Gupta teaches in the Department of History, University of Delhi. She has been a Visiting Faculty at the University of Vienna, Yale University, University of Washington and University of Hawai`i. Her latest publications include The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print (Permanent Black & University of Washington Press, 2016; paperback 2017) and a co-edited special issue on “Caste and Life Narratives” of the journal Biography (2017).
Colleen Lutz Clemens, M. Ed., Ph.D. is associate professor of Non-Western Literatures and Director of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Kutztown University, PA. Her work has been published in The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, English Journal, and Feminist Formations in print and online at a variety of publications including World Literature Today and Teaching Tolerance.
An Associate Professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and current President of SALA, Cynthia Leenerts teaches British, postcolonial, and world literatures. She co-edited (with Lopa Basu) *Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander* and (with George Bozzini) *Literature Without Borders: International Literature in English for Student Writers.* She is currently researching Tagore's travel writings and other intersections of Indian and Chinese literatures.
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is Professor of English and World Literature at James Madison University. She is the author of _Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence_ (Routledge, 2017). She also co-edited the collection of essays, _The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, Aesthetics_ (Routledge, 2014). She has contributed to anthologies and peer-reviewed journals from India, the U.K., and the U.S.
Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (University of Pittsburgh Press, April 2020). Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press), won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books), Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin’s), and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Web: www.dilrubaahmed.com.
Feroza Jussawalla, is Full Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (Peter Lang, 1984) co editor of Interviews with Writers of the Postcolonial World and editor of Conversations with V.S. Naipaul (both with University of New Mississippi, press, 1994, and 1998), and co-editor of Emerging South Asian Women's Writing, (Peter Lang, 2016). She has been active in SALA since 1980, edited several issues of the SALA journal, helped found the annual conference and was the first co-chair of it with Zach Thundy.
Gaurav Desai is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (Duke University Press, 2001) and editor of Teaching the African Novel (MLA, 2009), he has guest edited and co-edited several volumes of essays in major journals. Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (Rutgers University Press, 2005) which he co-edited with Supriya Nair has become a standard reference and classroom text since its publication. His articles have been published in journals such as PMLA, Genders, Representations, Boundary2, Interventions, African Studies Review and Cultural Critique.
Gisele Cardoso de Lemos obtained the Ph.D. degree in Religious Studies (2015) from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil. She was a research fellow at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, in 2006, and at Jawarhalal Nehru University, India, in 2013. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at Texas A&M University, USA. Her dissertation is titled “Acid Aesthetics: Disfigurement, Gender-Based Violence, and Indian Cultural Production.”
Hena Ahmad is Professor of English at Truman State University. She is the author of Postnational Feminisms: Postcolonial Identities and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai, 2010. Her teaching and research interests include Postcolonial Literature and Theory, South Asian literatures, Women’s and Gender Studies. She is currently editing a book on Agha Shahid Ali’s essays and is a Trustee of the Agha Shahid Ali Literary Trust.
Jason Sandhar is completing his first book, Everywhere, Animals Appear: Species, Race, and the State from the Raj to Global India, and starting another, tentatively titled Beyond the Conservationist Turn: Felt Encounters with Other Animals in British-Indian Nature Writing, 1865-1947. His research has appeared in Interventions and is forthcoming in the anthology Postcolonial Animalities (Routledge 2020). He teaches courses in theory and introductory writing at Western University and Fanshawe College.
John C. Hawley is Professor of English at Santa Clara University. Past president of the US chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, former chair of his department, and former member of three executive committees of the Modern Language Association, he has edited 16 books and published many articles on postcolonial topics. He is a recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation study grant at their Bellagio Center, and of five NEH summer stipends.
Josna Rege is a professor of English at Worcester State University, teaching in the several interdisciplinary programs as well as in the English Department She offers courses in contemporary women’s writing, postcolonial and global studies, South Asian literature, world literature, and the contemporary novel. Her current preoccupations are with citizenship and democracy, immigrants and refugees, and the role of social media in 21st- century society.
Kara Loy is an Associate Director at Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Thompson Rivers University.
Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. Author of numerous books in multiple genres, his most recent works are Inquisition (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) and All One's Blue (Harper Collins India, 2016). His honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. His poetry and essays have been featured in many literary journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, Jubilat, The Iowa Review, West Branch and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2007.
K. Satyanarayana is Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He is co-editor (with Susie Tharu) of South Indian Dalit Writing: No Alphabet in Sight (2011) and Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013). He has recently co-edited (with Ramnarayan Rawat) Dalit Studies: New Perspectives on South Asian History and Society (2016). He has also co-edited (with Judith Misrahi Barak and Nicole Thiara) Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-imagined (forthcoming, 2019).
Manju Dhariwal, former Dean of Academic Affairs and Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), Jaipur has been teaching English language and literature courses to engineering students for a decade and a half. She has presented papers in prestigious national and international conferences and published articles in reputed journals. She has guided Ph.D. research and is the co-author of the book Mastering Communication Skills and Soft Skills (2015) published by Bloomsbury India. She has organized International conferences and workshops and is currently serving as the Dean of Alumni Association and Resource Generation at the LNMIIT.
Author of "ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics and Counter Narratives" (2019) Masood Raja is an associate professor of Postcolonial Literature and theory at University of North Texas.
Matthew Nelson is a research associate at the University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as an Affiliate Instructor at Bradley University. His research concerns the intersection of translation and cultural memory in postcolonial South Asia.
Meghan Gorman-DaRif is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University. Her research considers historical revolutionary violence in contemporary Anglophone fiction, focusing on the Naxalite Movement in India and the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. She has published in the South Asian Review on the contemporary Naxal novel and in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies on the Mau Mau Uprising in the context of Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence.
Moumin Quazi is a Professor of English at Tarleton State University where he has also served as the director of the graduate program. He hosts a weekly radio show, co-directs an annual arts festival, coedits Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and edits CCTE Studies and a book series on South Asian Literature. He is the Chair of the Stephenville City Board of Adjustment, Vice President of the Stephenville Rotary Club, and Past-President and Treasurer of SALA.
Nalini Iyer is Professor of English at Seattle University where she teaches postcolonial South Asian and African Literatures, Victorian and Modern British literature. She is co- author of Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (2013), and co-editor of Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India (2009) and Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture and Politics (2016). She is incoming Editor of South Asian Review.
N. Nagaraju has taught at several Indian Universities for more than two decades. Currently he teaches Literatures in English at Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, India. His research interests include South Asian Fiction, Postcoloniality and Eco Literature.
Palak Taneja is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Emory University. Her research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, digital humanities, with a particular focus on South Asia. She is currently working on finishing her dissertation titled “Material Memory and the Partition” that draws on the object-memory interactions of the Partition Literature of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. She is also the current Issue Editor of Religious Theology and Practices journal, Practical Matters: www.practicalmattersjournal.org.
Pallavi Rastogi is an Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University. She has published widely on South Asian and South African literature. Her published work includes Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa (Ohio UP, 2008), an edited volume on Before Windrush: Recovering a Black and Asian Literary Heritage within Britain (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), and various articles. She is working on a monograph titled Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating the Catastrophe in the 21st Century.
Payel C. Mukherjee is a faculty member at SSH, IIIT Delhi.
Pennie Ticen is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Military Institute. Her current teaching includes courses in the Literature of Indian Independence and Empire Writing in British India. She has been a member of SALA for 18 years, serving on the Executive Committee from 2002-2004, Co-Chairing (with Dr. Raje Kaur) SALA’s 2004 Conference, and serving as SALA’s treasurer from 2005-2007. She is currently working on the essay in post- colonial literature.
Prabhjot Parmar is Associate Professor of English at University of the Fraser Valley.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College.
Pratusha Bhowmik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Bodoland University. Her research interests include South Asian Literatures, Indian Writings in English, Trauma Studies, North-east Indian Writings in English.
Rahul K. Gairola is The Krishna Somers Lecturer in English & Postcolonial Literature and Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University in Greater Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of 'Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas & Transatlantic Belonging' (2016) and Co-Editor, with Nalini Iyer and Amritjit Singh, of 'Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, & Politics' (2016).
Sabyn Javeri is Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the Arzu Center, Habib University, Karachi. She is the author of 'Hijabistan' (2019), 'Nobody Killed Her' (2017) and has edited two anthologies of creative writing titled 'The Arzu Anthology of Student Voices' (2019, 2018). She has a Masters from the University of Oxford and a doctorate from the University of Leicester. Her research interests include postcolonial feminism, south asian literature and creative writing.
Samina Najmi is Professor of English at California State University, Fresno. Long a scholar of race, gender, and war in American literature, she discovered the rewards of writing memoir and creative nonfiction in recent years. Samina is a Hedgebrook alumna whose work has appeared in World Literature Today, The Massachusetts Review, The Rumpus, Entropy, and other publications. Her memoir “Abdul” won Map Literary’s 2012 nonfiction prize. Having grown up in Karachi and London, Samina now calls California’s San Joaquin Valley home.
Sara Ali is currently a PhD fellow at the University of Waikato's English Department. Her doctoral research is focused on exploring how masculine identities are constructed and presented in contemporary Pakistani fiction in English.
Sayanti Mondal is a Doctoral student in Literature and Culture Studies at Illinois State University. She is interested in transnational literature, postcolonial literature, world literature, popular culture, and visual rhetoric. She has published articles on South Asian literature and popular culture, and her current project investigates how discursive activism can foster transnational sisterhood in the 21st Century.
S. Charusheela is Professor in the School of International Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell. A political economist by training, she works on questions of economic subjectivity, gender, development, identity, and postcoloniality/globalization. She was Editor of Rethinking Marxism from August 2009 - July 2013 and served as an active member of its editorial board for over a decade (June 1997 to June 2000, July 2007 to July 2016). She has published widely on postcolonialism and feminist economics in journals and edited collections.
Sean A. Weaver is a Ph.D. candidate at Louisiana State University, LA with a Masters in English/literature from Kutztown University, PA. He is currently working on his dissertation which examines, through a comparative approach, the intersections of queer and postcolonial literatures and theories. His work has been published in The Journal of Otherness: Essays and Studies. He has also worked as both a writer and an editor for the online queer magazine Vada.
Shadab Zeest Hashmi is the author of poetry collections Kohl and Chalk and Baker of Tarifa. Her most recent publication, Ghazal Cosmopolitan, is a book of essays and poems exploring the culture and craft of the ghazal form and has been praised by poet Marilyn Hacker as "a marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir." Winner of the San Diego Book Award for poetry, the Nazim Hikmet Prize, and multiple Pushcart nominations, Zeest Hashmi's poetry has been translated into Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu, and has appeared in anthologies and journals worldwide, most recently in McSweeney's In the Shape of a Human Body I am Visiting the Earth. She has taught in the MFA program at San Diego State University as a writer-in-residence and her work has been included in the Language Arts curriculum for grades 7-12 (Asian American and Pacific Islander women poets) as well as college courses in Creative Writing and the Humanities.
Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being, a finalist for the 2019 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her writing has recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, Music & Literature, and Canadian Literature. She is a columnist for Open Book and is currently at work on a novel. She has presented on Canada Reads and immigrant literature at MLA 2019, AWP 2019, and will moderate panels on the changing shape of immigrant literature and difference at AWP 2020. She has appeared at the Indian Summer Festival and the Vancouver Writers Festival, and has recently published academic work on heterotopia and spectacle in Countours, the Humanities journal published by Simon Fraser University. Her essays and criticism have recently appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Canadian Literature, and Quill & Quire.
SJ Sindu was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Massachusetts. Sindu's first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Debut Fiction, was selected by the American Library Association as a Stonewall Honor Book, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the VCU First Novelist Award. Sindu is also the author of the hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook I Once Met You But You Were Dead, which won the Split Lip Press Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. A 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, Sindu holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and teaches at the University of Toronto. Sindu's second novel, Blue-Skinned Gods, is forthcoming from Soho Press.
Sreerupa Sengupta is an Assistant Professor in 20th-Century British and global Anglophone literature at University of Central Missouri where she teaches modern British fiction, contemporary multicultural British literature, and composition. She has taught world literature and composition at Auburn University, University of Southern Mississippi, and North Dakota State University. Her specialization includes South Asian literature and film, and gender studies. Currently, she is working on her book, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Turn-of-the-Century Women's Fiction and Film of the Indian Subcontinent.
S. Shankar is a novelist, critic, and translator. He is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. Shankar’s most recent book is his third novel Ghost in the Tamarind (2017). His most recent critical book is the award-winning Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular (2012). Shankar is co-editor of “Caste and Life Narratives” (2017 special issue of the journal Biography; India edition forthcoming from Primus).
Steve Adisasmito-Smith teaches World Literature at California State University, Fresno. His past work, drawing on hermeneutics and postcolonial studies, won the Horst Frenz Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Steve has published on the translation and interpretation of Sanskrit texts by British Orientalists, American Transcendentalists, and Indian Nationalists. His recent research focuses on cross-cultural comparisons of both epics and lyric poetry. Steve is currently exploring biocultural approaches to literature, which combine ecocriticism, evocriticism, cognitive science, gender studies and performance studies. He is translating women poets of Classical Sanskrit to bring their voices to wider attention.
Sukanya Gupta is Associate Professor of English and the Director of Global Studies at University of Southern Indiana. Her research and teaching interests include Post-Colonial Studies, South Asian Diaspora Studies, Bollywood, and World Literature. She has published articles in anthologies like Negotiating: Gender and Sexual Identity in Contemporary Turkey and in journals such as South Asian Popular Culture, South Asian Diaspora, South Asian Review, and Diaspora Studies.
Sumera Saleem is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature, the University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Gold medalist in English literature from the University of the Punjab, and sub-editor in the department of English, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Her research analyzes the representations of nation in Pakistani Literature in English. She is currently working on research projects based on Pakistani Poetry in English. She has taught graduate courses on the History of English literature, Technical Business writing and English Language Teaching.
Summer Pervez holds a BA and MA from the Western University and a PhD from the University of Ottawa. She has been teaching in Canada and Pakistan since 2002 as specialist in World Literature and Film, with emphasis on South Asia, and is also a filmmaker, photographer, and activist for minority rights. She has published a range of articles on literature, film, and music and is currently researching contemporary Pakistani film and television. She recently moved back to Vancouver from Lahore and teaches at University Canada West.
Surojit Kayal completed his BA and MA from Calcutta University and his M.Phil from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is currently a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he works on the figure of the animal in South Asian systems of thought. His larger areas of interest are animal studies and environmental humanities which he studies in conjunction with postcolonial and world literature.
Titas De Sarkar is a PhD student in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. He is interested in representations of the youth across artforms, the ways in which the figure of the youth has been constructed in postcolonial times, and youth culture in India vis-a-vis contemporary youth cultures from around the world. He was previously affiliated with the Department of History, Jadavpur University and Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Upasana Dutta is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago. Her work concerns cultural representations of crises and their role within national imaginaries, with particular attention to the valley of Kashmir and the representations of the space and the people that circulate through cinema, literature, and popular discourse. In her spare time, she enjoys graphic narratives, translation projects, and photography.
Waseem Anwar is Professor, former Dean Humanities and Chair English at Forman Christian College, Lahore. A Fulbrighter twice, Gale Group American Scholar, and thrice Elected Member of the SALA Executive Committee, he authored “Black” Women’s Dramatic Discourse (2009) and Co-Guest edited 2010 South Asian Review (31.3). Dr. Khurshid Alam is Assistant Professor at Punjab University, Lahore. His doctoral dissertation is titled, “The Politics of Identity: A Critical Study of Pakistani Fiction in English.”
Zachary Bordas is an English Ph.D. student at Louisiana State University. His research interests include examining the effects of religious marginalization and sexual awareness in the postcolonial novels of Kashmir and Pakistan. These areas of interest help him understand the lingering effects that British Imperialism left after the decolonization of India. His latest publication, in Postcolonial Interventions, examines how agency is fashioned by peoples’ interaction with observation based on class, religion, and power.
Zulfqar Hyder currently teaches at University College of the North in Thompson, Manitoba. After completing his PhD in modernist British Literature from University of Aberdeen in the UK, he taught English Literature at different universities in Pakistan including International Islamic University, Islamabad and University of the Punjab, Lahore.