DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION
Chairperson & Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Fulbright) (Clemson University, USA)
PGD (University of Oslo, Norway)
MPhil Communication Studies (PU)
MSc Mass Communication (LCWU)
Dr. Firasat Jabeen did her PhD with Fulbright in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. Her research focuses on the intersection of rhetoric, communication, and cultural studies, and its scope is fundamentally transdisciplinary. For her doctoral dissertation, Dr. Jabeen has studied Orientalism from a Pakistani standpoint, and have argued for the ubiquitous nature of Orientalism for a periphery country like Pakistan. Dr. Jabeen’s doctoral training has enabled her to amalgamate theoretical and practical approaches in the field of communication. In addition, Dr. Jabeen’s areas of expertise include media representations, rhetorical criticism, critical discourse analysis, and cultural/critical studies.
Dr. Jabeen has presented her research at prestigious conferences of rhetoric and communication in the U.S. and Pakistan. Some of these conferences include National Communication Association (NCA), International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). In addition, she has several national and international publications on her credit, some of which are published in the subject’s leading and competitive research journals.
Selected Publications:
- Ozyesilpinar, Eda. Firasat Jabeen. “Through the Magic Glass of Sufism: Studying Orientalism in Sufism.” The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics, edited by Keith Lloyd, Routledge, 2020, pp. 155-163
- Jabeen, Firasat. “The Perpetuation of Colonial Legacy: Uncovering Internal Orientalism in the Form of English Supremacy in Pakistan.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 40, No. 10, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2019.1653303
- Frank, Daniel, Firasat Jabeen, Eda Ozyesilpinar, Joshua Wood, and Nathan Riggs. “Collaboration and/against Copyright: Notes Home from the Information Technology Revolution’s Battlefield.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Vol. 24, No. 1, 2019.