Department of English
Extension Number: 630
Office Number: E-118

BRIEF PROFILE

Fatima Syeda is serving as Professor and Chairperson at the department of English at Forman Christian College University. She has been serving the department of English at FCCU since 2005. She has completed her PhD in English Language & Literature from University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan with a research on Men as Victims of Violence in Partition Fiction. Her fields of interest include Masculinity Studies, South Asian Literature in English, Digital Literary Studies, & Modern Drama. She is an extensive researcher with her book chapters and research papers published in both National and International books & journals. She has been invited to different National and International conferences to share her research in different capacities as a Keynote Speaker, a presenter, a session chair, & a panelist. She has convened the first ever international conference entitled “Voices from the Periphery: Literature & Language” at FCCU English Department in October 2019 and organized the 2nd International conference “Inter / Disconnections of the Prefix ‘Post’ in Literary, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies” at FCCU in October 2022. During her vast teaching experience of over 20 years, she has designed and taught multiple courses (in Literature) for Baccalaureate and M.Phil. classes at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University).

EDUCATION
⦁ PhD in English Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore
⦁ MPhil in English Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore
⦁ Masters in English Literature, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore

RESERACH & PUBLICATIONS

Published Book Chapters
1. Syeda, Fatima. “The Construction & Dissolution of the Masculine Self: Rereading the Unspeakable Trauma in Sorraya Khan’s Noor”. Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature, edited by Goutam Karmakar and Zeenat Khan, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2023, pp. 81-91. DOI: 10.4324/9781003353539-9
2. Syeda, Fatima. “Fear of Pollution: A Study of Humiliation in Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand.” Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature, edited by Varun Gulati and Garima Dalal, Lexington Books, 2017, pp. 105-120.

Research Papers Published in HEC Recognized Research Journals (HJRS) “Y” Category
As Principal Author:
3. Syeda, Fatima, and Khurshid Alam. “Swaang – A Theatrical-Cultural Form in Punjab: A Study of Socio-Religious Politics in Black is My Robe by Shahid Nadeem.” Ancient Punjab, vol. 10, 2022, 122-129.
http://pu.edu.pk/home/journal/47/Current-Issue.html
4. Syeda, Fatima, and Rija Batool. “A Writer’s Urge for a Cathartic Narrativization: A Study of the Narratives from the Traumatic Memory of Kashmir Victims in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Nights”. Kashmir Journal of Language Research, vol. 24, no. 2, Feb, 2022, pp.17-32. https://kjlr.pk/index.php/kjlr/article/view/258/173
5. Syeda, Fatima, and Saud Hanif. “A Contemporized Myth and Reality in Conflict: Sunderlal’s Psychic Imbalance in Lajwanti by Rajinder Singh Bedi”. Pakistan Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences Research, vol. 04, no. 02, Dec, 2021, pp. 175-188. https://doi.org/10.37605/pjhssr.v4i2.256
6. Syeda, Fatima, and Khurshid Alam. “Weakness of Faith and the Silenced Exploitation of Women in Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi’s “A Lament” ” Journal of Research Society of Pakistan, vol. 58, no. 4, 2021, pp. 109-112.
http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/history/PDF-FILES/13_58_4_21.pdf
7. Syeda, Fatima, et. al. “Discursive Diverseness of Bertha’s Vibrance in “Bliss” by Katherine Mansfield.” PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt /Egyptology, vol. 8, no. 17, 2021, pp. 562-572. https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/10267/9426
8. Syeda, Fatima, et. al. “The Tragedy Within the Comedy: The Politics of Narrativizing Émigré Crisis in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin.” Pakistan Social Sciences Review, vol. 5, no. 4, 2021, pp. 105-114.
https://pssr.org.pk/issues/v5/4/the-tragedy-within-the-comedy-the-politics-of- narrativizing-migr-crisis-in-vladimir-nabokov-s-pnin.pdf
9. Syeda, Fatima, et. al. “Despair in The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.” Journal of Development and Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. IV, 2021, pp. 39-47.
https://jdss.org.pk/issues/v2/4/despair-in-the-alchemist-by-ben- jonson.pdf
10. Syeda, Fatima, and Rizwan Akhtar. “Ambivalence as a Cultural Imperative in Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali.” Journal of Research in Humanities, vol. 56, no. 2, 2020, pp. 129-138. http://pu.edu.pk/home/journal/jrh/Current-Issue.html
11. Syeda, Fatima, et. al. “Panopticon: An Automation of Power Mechanism, A Foucauldian Analysis of the Coercive Surveillance in 1984 by George Orwell.” Journal of Research Society of Pakistan, Vol. 57, no. 4, Oct-Dec 2020, pp. 133-139. http://pu.edu.pk/home/journal/14/Vol_57_No.4_2020.html
12. Syeda, Fatima, and Rizwan Akhtar. “Colonization as an Emasculating Experience: The Symbolic Castration of the Colonized Men in Pre/Partition Fiction.” Pakistan Vision, vol. 20, no. 2, 2019, pp. 97-115.
http://pu.edu.pk/images/journal/studies/PDF-FILES/7_v20_2_19.pdf
13. Syeda, Fatima, and Rizwan Akhtar. “Body, Power and Gendered Identity: Inscribed Bodies of Men in Partition Fiction.” Journal of Research in Humanities, vol. LIV, 2018, pp. 123-139. http://pu.edu.pk/home/journal/jrh/Online-Contents.html

As Second Author:
14. Zia, Asfa and Fatima Syeda. “The Perversion of Desire and the Institution of Marriage in the Subcontinent: A Re-Reading of Homoeroticism in the Quilt by Ismat Chughtai”. Pakistan Journal of Women’ Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, Vol. 29. No. 2, 2022, pp. 59-76. https://pakistanwomenstudies.com/index.php/pjws/article/view/133
15. Hanif, Saud and Fatima Syeda. “Conscious Suspension of ‘Stranger Danger’: Fetishism in Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee”. NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Vol. 20, No. I, Jun 30, 2022, pp. 20–30. https://doi.org/10.52015/numljci.v20iI.221
16. Naeem, Komal, and Fatima Syeda. “(Mis)Use of Religious Ideology for Power Politics in Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes”. New Horizons, vol. 16, no. 1, January, 2022, pp. 75-96.
https://greenwich.edu.pk/images/PDFs/NHJ/NH_V16_N1.pdf
17. Aftab, Madiha, et. al. “Romantic Associations of Being and Unity: A Comparative Aesthetic Analysis of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali.” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2021, pp. 313-323.
https://plhr.org.pk/issues/v5/2/romantic-associations-of-being-and-unity-a- comparative-aesthetic-analysis-of-rabindranath-tagores-gitanjali.pdf
18. Naeem, Komal, and Fatima Syeda. “Aesthetics in Resistance Poetry: Re-reading Dennis Brutus and Habib Jalib.” Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 20, no. 2, 2020, pp. 193-211.
https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/LA/article/view/15048
19. Awan, Hamza Rauf, and Fatima Syeda. “Maternal Transferability of Trauma and Psychosomatic Nation in Sorayya Khan’s Noor.” Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, vol. 27, no. 1, 2020, pp. 129-143.
https://www.pakistanwomenstudies.com/pjws/article/view/42/38

Conference Papers (Published):
20. A Paper entitled “Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden & the Syrian Refugees Today” published in the Canadian International Journal of Social Science and Education, Volume 6, May 2016, ISSN 2356-9085. pp 185-195.