English Program, Lahore University of Management Sciences

03/10/2022

On Friday evening, the English Program hosted a meet and greet for the English majors. The event was a great success, and everyone felt the relaxed ambience that was enhanced by a wonderful interaction between faculty and students. Thank you everyone for being there and good luck with your courses.

02/12/2021

Emil Hasnain (English major Senior) standing with her illustration “سارا شہر سماگ کا ہے”. The illustration was originally made as a poster for Smog Action Rally organized by Climate Impact PK, and examines the different ways smog affects people in Lahore. The illustration has been featured at Lahore Design Festival.

10/11/2021

This week we will be spotlighting Dr. Tamkin Hussain (Assistant Professor of English). Dr. Hussain holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University in New York where she defended her dissertation on feminine representations in the aesthetics of Deleuze and Guattari, Bernard Stiegler and Jacques Derrida. Her current research focuses upon the connection between technologies of inscription and politics of the body in art and literature. Her work has appeared in international, peer-reviewed publications:
• “M. Beatrice Fazi, Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics,” Philosophy in Review, 14(1), 2021, 16-18.
• “The Ethos of Art – Anne Sauvagnargues (2018) Deleuze and Art, trans. Samantha Bankston; Anne Sauvagnargues (2016) Artmachines: Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon, trans. Suzanne Verderber and Eugene W. Holland,” Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 15(1), 2021, 169-172.
• “Deconstructing the Material Girl,” Review: Changing Difference, Catherine Malabou, Radical Philosophy: Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy, Vol. 174, July/August, 2012, 42-44.
• “Technology Tomorrow, Terror Today - Campbell’s Improper Life,” Review: Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben, Timothy C. Campbell, Theory & Event, Vol. 15, Issue 12, 2012.

01/11/2021

This week we will be spotlighting Dr. Sadia Zulfiqar (Assistant Professor of English) whose areas of interest include African women novelists; representations of Islam in fiction; Harem literature; Institution of polygamy in Africa; and Afro-American literature. She is the author of African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender (2016) and editor of Islam and the West: A Love Story? (2015) with Sumita Mukherjee.

Her article “Sharing a Husband: The Representation of Polygamy in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood” will appear in Research in African Literature (Indiana University Press) in July 2022. Her second article “The Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of Creative Remembrance: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy (1985)” is currently under review for publication.

25/10/2021

This week we will be spotlighting Dr. Farah Ali (Assistant Professor of English) whose areas of interest include the life and works of Harold Pinter, Theatre of the Absurd, and Twentieth-Century British Theatre, especially the Post-War period.

Dr. Ali’s book Eroding the Language of Freedom: Predicament of Identity in Selected Works of Harold Pinter was published in 2018 by Routledge Press.
https://www.routledge.com/Eroding-the-Language-of-Freedom-Identity-Predicament-in-Selected-Works/Ali/p/book/9781138080195

Her recent works include multiple book reviews in international, peer-reviewed publications:
• Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox, by Peter G. Platt, National Drama, Vol. 10, No.1 (2019) http://www.nationaldrama.org.uk/journal/current-issue/book-reviews/shakespeare-and-the-culture-of-paradox/
• Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce, by Tobi Stein, Cultural Trends (2020) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09548963.2020.1799334
• Shakespeare’s Props: Memory and Cognition, National Drama, Vol.12, No.1 (2021) http://www.nationaldrama.org.uk/journal/current-issue/book-reviews
•The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain, by Francesca Sobande Cultural Trends, Vol.30, No.2 (2021) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/09548963.2021.1955208?scroll=top&needAccess=true
• Redefining Theatre Communities. Edited by Marco Galea and Szabolcs Musca. PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, Vol. 4, No.1 (2021) https://doi.org/10.33011/partake.v4i1.1023
• No Man’s Land, by Harold Pinter, The Harold Pinter Review (2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/haropintrevi.4.1.issue-1?refreqid=fastly-default%3A4a0112ef37943e3ca2e04c362c21a5dd

06/10/2021

Dr. Anna Ball, Associate Professor Nottingham Trent University, UK gave a talk on Wingwomen: Towards a Feminocentric Poetics of Flight Twenty-first Century Palestinian Creative Consciousness on Monday 4th October 2021 at 6:00 pm. The talk was moderated by Dr. Sadia Zulfiqar

20/04/2021

Saba Karim Khan, a LUMS alumni, an author, award-winning filmmaker and instructor in the social science division at NYU Abu Dhabi discussed her debut novel Skyfall with Dr. Sadia Zulfiqar.

19/04/2021

Dr. Anastasia Valassopoulos (Senior Lecturer of World Literatures, University of Manchester) shared her insights on “The Value of Mobility in postcolonial Writing and Cinema” through Western and indigenous multi-modal representations (film, graphic novels and other media). The talk was moderated by Dr. Sadia Zulfiqar.

14/04/2021

Dr. Mark A. Reid, Professor of English at The University of Florida gave a thought-provoking talk “The Wor(l)ds of James Baldwin: The Civil Rights Movement and Not-So Post-Racial Imaginary in Literature and Word” moderated by Dr. Sadia Zulfiqar

25/03/2021

Dear Students,

Dr. Saba Pirzadeh will be moderating a webinar session with two of our English alumni (Ms. Fareeha Shah and Ms. Maira Rehman) about Graduate School Application process tomorrow i.e. Friday, 26th March 2021 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

Please find the zoom link below:

https://lums-edu-pk.zoom.us/j/99759654174?pwd=eUlIOWlvUkFUbkYraHZJVGRKY1RhQT09

All English majors and minors are encouraged to attend.

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