Department of English
Extension Number: 844
Office Number: F-004

BRIEF PROFILE
Dr. Qurratulaen Liaqat is an Associate professor of English Literature at the Department of English, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University). She has extensive experience of more than a decade in the field of teaching English literature, language, and ELT. Her research interests include Postcolonial. Post 9/11, Posthuman and Absurd Literature. In addition to Dr. Liaqat’s recently published monograph titled The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post 9/11 Plays (2023), she has multiple research publications to her credit in prestigious international journals including Interventions (Taylor & Francis), Textual Practice (Taylor & Francis), Contemporary South Asia (Taylor & Francis), Literature and Aesthetics (University of Sydney Press), and Journal of Posthuman Studies (Penn State University Pres).

EDUCATION
⦁ PhD in English Literature and Language, University of the Punjab, Pakistan
⦁ MPhil in English Literature, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan
⦁ Masters in English Literature, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan
⦁ Masters in TESOL, Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan

RESERACH & PUBLICATIONS
Book Title: The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post 9/11 Plays (2023)
Publication House: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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.

Journal Publications
• “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.
• “Drone fiction, empathy gap and the reader: Mohsin Hamid’s short story Terminator: Attack of the Drone (2011)”, Textual Practice, 25, 3, 2022, pp. 468-486. DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2022.2056236. Taylor & Francis.
• “Poetics and Politics of Post-Partition Cultural Memories in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography.” Contemporary South Asia CCSA, 2022, 30, 2, pp. 14-165. DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2022.2057440. Taylor & Francis.
• “South Asian Transhumanist Posthuman Ontologies: The Relationship between Vehicle Art and Mind Uploading in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing”. Journal of Posthuman Studies, vol.6, no. 1, 2023, pp. 33-52. https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.6.1.0033.
• “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.
• “Non-western Posthuman Cyborg Ontologies: The Man-Automobile Relationship in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction.” Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney, Australia vol. 31, no.1, 2021, pp. 24- 38.
• “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, Bulgaria.
• “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, vol. 4, no. 2, 2020, pp. 195-215.
• “Muslim/Christian Polarities in Pakistan: A Holistic Model Analysis of Pre-emptive religious conversion in Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend.” Research Journal of Language and Literature, vol, 6, no.1, 2021.
• “Necropolitics and Biopolitics of Drone Warfare: A Critical Posthuman Analysis of Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Fiction.” New Horizons, vol. 15, no. 1, 2021, pp. 117-134.
• “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, vol. 18, no.1, 2020, pp. 50-68.
• “Secular Versus Sacred Power Politics: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow.” Journal of Research and Reviews in Social Sciences Pakistan, vol. 3, no. 2, 2020, pp. 803-815.
• “Repression and Resistance: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Power Structures in the Novel A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie” in the Journal of Research (Humanities), Vol. LIV, pp. 1-16. Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab.
• “Language in the War-Zone: The Power of Translation in Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (CUJHSS) vol. 12, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 99-111. Çankaya University, Turkey. ISSN: 1309 – 6761
• “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.