Dr. Qurra-tul-Aen Liaqat

Name: Qurratulaen Liaqat

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: English

Extension no: 844

Office location: F-004

 Dr. Qurratulaen Liaqat is associate professor at the Department of English, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore, Pakistan. She teaches English Drama, Science Fiction, and Research at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. She is founder of Pakistan Posthuman Network (https://www.posthumans.org/pakistan-posthuman-network.html ) which is associated with the Global Posthuman Network. She has also has extensive experience of serving as a trainer in the field of public speaking, English academic writing, reading skills, and ELT. She has numerous publications in renowned international journals which have established her reputation as a leading posthuman and postcolonial theorist in Pakistan.

Research Interests: Posthuman, Postcolonial, Post 9/11, and Absurd Literatures

Education

PhD in English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

MPhil in English Literature, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan

MA TESOL, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan

MA English Literature, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan

Research and Publications

Book

 Title: The Element of the “Absurd” in Rajiv Joseph’s Post 9/11 Plays

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-1894-0

Research Journal Publications 

  1. The notion of the ‘Subaltern’ and the drone victim subjectivities in Pakistani Anglophone fiction.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190906, Taylor and Francis.
  2. “Drone fiction, empathy gap and the reader: Mohsin Hamid’s short storyTerminator: Attack of the Drone (2011)”, Textual Practice, 25, 3, 2022, pp. 468-486. DOI: 1080/0950236X.2022.2056236. Taylor & Francis.
  3. “Poetics and Politics of Post-Partition Cultural Memories in Kamila Shamsie’s ” Contemporary South AsiaCCSA, 2022, 30, 2, pp. 14-165. DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2022.2057440. Taylor & Francis.
  4. “South Asian Transhumanist Posthuman Ontologies: The Relationship between Vehicle Art and Mind Uploading in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing”. Journal of Posthuman Studies, 6, no. 1, 2023, pp. 33-52. https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.6.1.0033.
  5. “Literary Activism against Drones: Aesthetics of Clarity, Confusion, and Empathy in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction.” International Journal of Literary Humanities, vol. 20, no. 2, 2022, pp. 151-163, USA.
  6. “Poetics of Migration Trauma in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” English Studies at NBU, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 141-158. New Bulgarian University,
  7. “Non-western Posthuman Cyborg Ontologies: The Man-Automobile Relationship in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction.” Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney, Australia 31, no.1, 2021, pp. 24- 38.
  8. “Non-Western Onto-Epistemological Paradigm Shifts: Posthuman Feminist Discourse of the Pakistani TV animation Series Burka Avenger (2013-2016)”. Journal of Posthuman Studies, Penn State University Press, USA, 4, no. 2, 2020, pp. 195-215.
  9. “Diasporic Inter-textual Musings: The Relevance of Classical Urdu Poetry to Contemporary Pakistani Situation in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend.” NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Pakistan, vol. 18, no.1, 2020, pp. 50-68.
  1.   “War Afflicted Beings: Myth-Ecological Discourse of the Play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph”, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 9, no. 2, 2018, pp. 72-88. Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. ISSN: 2171-9594. (Indexed in DOAJ, EBSCO and CROSSREF)

 

Book Chapters

I- Chapter Title: “Dialogic Heteroglossia: Polyphonic Discourse of Migration in the Novel Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid.”

Book Details: Shifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders and Identities edited by Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2020, pp. 23-42.

II- Chapter Title: “An Expose of Absurd Contemporary Conflicts in the Play: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph”

Book Details: B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity, and Identity in Literatures, edited by Sule Okuoglu and Mustafa Kirca, Peter Lang Publications, USA, 2017, pp. 219-234.

 

International interviews

Dr. Qurratulaen’s interview on her posthuman vision was conducted by Başak Ağın in 2024 for Turkish Posthuman Network’s Website Posthuman Entanglements in Culture, Literature, and Environment which is available at https://thepentacle.org/2024/02/11/interview-with-qurratulaen-liaqat/?amp

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Office location: F-004
Dr. Qurra-tul-Aen Liaqat

Name: Qurratulaen Liaqat

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: English

Extension no: 844

Office location: F-004

 Dr. Qurratulaen Liaqat is associate professor at the Department of English, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore, Pakistan. She teaches English Drama, Science Fiction, and Research at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. She is founder of Pakistan Posthuman Network (https://www.posthumans.org/pakistan-posthuman-network.html ) which is associated with the Global Posthuman Network. She has also has extensive experience of serving as a trainer in the field of public speaking, English academic writing, reading skills, and ELT. She has numerous publications in renowned international journals which have established her reputation as a leading posthuman and postcolonial theorist in Pakistan.

Research Interests: Posthuman, Postcolonial, Post 9/11, and Absurd Literatures

Education

PhD in English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

MPhil in English Literature, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan

MA TESOL, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan

MA English Literature, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan

Research and Publications

Book

 Title: The Element of the “Absurd” in Rajiv Joseph’s Post 9/11 Plays

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-1894-0

Research Journal Publications 

  1. The notion of the ‘Subaltern’ and the drone victim subjectivities in Pakistani Anglophone fiction.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2190906, Taylor and Francis.
  2. “Drone fiction, empathy gap and the reader: Mohsin Hamid’s short storyTerminator: Attack of the Drone (2011)”, Textual Practice, 25, 3, 2022, pp. 468-486. DOI: 1080/0950236X.2022.2056236. Taylor & Francis.
  3. “Poetics and Politics of Post-Partition Cultural Memories in Kamila Shamsie’s ” Contemporary South AsiaCCSA, 2022, 30, 2, pp. 14-165. DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2022.2057440. Taylor & Francis.
  4. “South Asian Transhumanist Posthuman Ontologies: The Relationship between Vehicle Art and Mind Uploading in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing”. Journal of Posthuman Studies, 6, no. 1, 2023, pp. 33-52. https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.6.1.0033.
  5. “Literary Activism against Drones: Aesthetics of Clarity, Confusion, and Empathy in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction.” International Journal of Literary Humanities, vol. 20, no. 2, 2022, pp. 151-163, USA.
  6. “Poetics of Migration Trauma in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” English Studies at NBU, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 141-158. New Bulgarian University,
  7. “Non-western Posthuman Cyborg Ontologies: The Man-Automobile Relationship in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction.” Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney, Australia 31, no.1, 2021, pp. 24- 38.
  8. “Non-Western Onto-Epistemological Paradigm Shifts: Posthuman Feminist Discourse of the Pakistani TV animation Series Burka Avenger (2013-2016)”. Journal of Posthuman Studies, Penn State University Press, USA, 4, no. 2, 2020, pp. 195-215.
  9. “Diasporic Inter-textual Musings: The Relevance of Classical Urdu Poetry to Contemporary Pakistani Situation in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend.” NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Pakistan, vol. 18, no.1, 2020, pp. 50-68.
  1.   “War Afflicted Beings: Myth-Ecological Discourse of the Play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph”, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 9, no. 2, 2018, pp. 72-88. Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. ISSN: 2171-9594. (Indexed in DOAJ, EBSCO and CROSSREF)

 

Book Chapters

I- Chapter Title: “Dialogic Heteroglossia: Polyphonic Discourse of Migration in the Novel Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid.”

Book Details: Shifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders and Identities edited by Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2020, pp. 23-42.

II- Chapter Title: “An Expose of Absurd Contemporary Conflicts in the Play: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph”

Book Details: B/Orders Unbound: Marginality, Ethnicity, and Identity in Literatures, edited by Sule Okuoglu and Mustafa Kirca, Peter Lang Publications, USA, 2017, pp. 219-234.

 

International interviews

Dr. Qurratulaen’s interview on her posthuman vision was conducted by Başak Ağın in 2024 for Turkish Posthuman Network’s Website Posthuman Entanglements in Culture, Literature, and Environment which is available at https://thepentacle.org/2024/02/11/interview-with-qurratulaen-liaqat/?amp

Research Area
Address
Office location: F-004
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