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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Mufti Mudasir Farooqi Senior Assistant Professor Department of English University of Kashmir Hazratbal, Srinagar, J&K. India. 190006. [email protected] mobile: 9419379806 Academic Qualification M.A English (2002) (University of Kashmir) Ph. D (2009) (University of Kashmir) Specialization and Areas of Interest Literary Theory and Criticism Literary Translation Postmodern British Drama Continental Thought and Hermeneutics Persian Poetry of Classical and Mughal-Safawid Periods (13 th -18 th Centuries) Kashmir’s Medieval History and Kashmiri Sufi Poetry Islamic Studies Iqbal Studies Distinctions Post-doctoral Fellow in the academic year 2012/2013 in the programme ‘Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship’ at Forum Transregionale Studien, Freie University of Berlin, Germany. Consultant Reader/Reviewer for bilingual texts of poetry (Persian-English) published by Modern Language Association (MLA), U.S.A. Peer-Reviewer for Philological Encounters: A Peer-reviewed Journal of Philology. BRILL, Leiden, the Netherlands. Well-acclaimed translator from Arabic, Persian, Kashmiri and Urdu with published translated work from all these languages. Resource Person for various faculty-development programmes at UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, K.U, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora and Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Srinagar.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Mufti Mudasir Farooqi

Senior Assistant Professor

Department of English

University of Kashmir

Hazratbal, Srinagar, J&K.

India. 190006.

[email protected]

mobile: 9419379806

Academic Qualification

M.A English (2002) (University of Kashmir)

Ph. D (2009) (University of Kashmir)

Specialization and Areas of Interest

Literary Theory and Criticism

Literary Translation

Postmodern British Drama

Continental Thought and Hermeneutics

Persian Poetry of Classical and Mughal-Safawid Periods (13th -18th Centuries)

Kashmir’s Medieval History and Kashmiri Sufi Poetry

Islamic Studies

Iqbal Studies

Distinctions

Post-doctoral Fellow in the academic year 2012/2013 in the programme ‘Zukunftsphilologie:

Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship’ at Forum Transregionale Studien, Freie

University of Berlin, Germany.

Consultant Reader/Reviewer for bilingual texts of poetry (Persian-English) published by

Modern Language Association (MLA), U.S.A.

Peer-Reviewer for Philological Encounters: A Peer-reviewed Journal of Philology. BRILL,

Leiden, the Netherlands.

Well-acclaimed translator from Arabic, Persian, Kashmiri and Urdu with published translated

work from all these languages.

Resource Person for various faculty-development programmes at UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora and

Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Srinagar.

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Teaching Experience (16 Years)

Designation Place Period

Assistant Professor (Stage III) Department of English, University of

Kashmir

(since 7-3-2014)

Assistant Professor (Stage II) Department of English, University of

Kashmir

(7-3-2009 to 6-3-2014)

Assistant Professor (Stage I) Department of English, University of

Kashmir

(2-9-2005 to 6-3-2009)

Assistant Professor Islamia College of Science and

Commerce, Srinagar

(1-6-2005 to 31-8-2005)

Assistant Professor S South Campus, University of Kashmir (27-3-2004 to 31-5- 2005)

Lecturer (Contractual) Department of English, University of

Kashmir

(8-5-2003 to 31-12-2003)

Lecturer (Contractual) S.P. College, Srinagar ( (16-4-2002 to 30-11-2002)

Major Research Projects

Books

1. Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama: A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. 2014.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

2. The Captured Gazelle: The Poems of Tahir Ghani Kashmiri. 2013. (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Books: New Delhi

Title Funding Agency Amount

Sanctioned

Working

as

Collected Works of Mahmud

Gaami: Translation with an

Introduction and Annotations

Indian Council of Philosophical

Research. (ICPR), New Delhi.

10 lacs

Principal

Investigator

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Book Chapters

1 ‘How not to Read Iqbal: A Response to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’. Fikr-o-Fun: Iqbal Ke

Chand Pehloo Asre Hazir Ke Hawale Se. (ed.) Taskeena Fazil. ISBN 978-93-82288-13. Iqbal

Institute of Culture and Philosophy. University of Kashmir. 2012. pp. 47-51.

2. ‘Travesties: A Postmodern Play par excellence.’ in Postmodern Language and Literature (ed)

A H Tak. ISBN: 81-87403-22-5. Sarup Plus, New Delhi. 2008. pp.117-130.

Research Papers

1. ‘Ikeeswin Sadi Mein Iqbal ki Ma’aniwiyyat: Chand Guzaarishaat’. Iqbaliyat: A Refereed

Journal of Iqbal Studies. (ISSN 0975-6604) Vol. XXIV. 35-41.

2. Kashmir’s Contribution to Persian Literature: Some Remarks. Sheeraza. ISSN 2278-1269.

Vol. XII, No.1. 35-49. J&K Academy of Arts, Culture and Languages.

3. Craftsmen of Genius: Persian Poets of Mughal India. Research Journal of English Language

and Literature. ISSN 2395-2636 (Print); 2321:3108 (Online). Vol.4. Issue 1. 2016 (January-

March) 520-526

4. Holy Lives as Texts: Saints and the Fashioning of Kashmir’s Muslim Identity. Philological

Encounters: A Peer-reviewed Journal of Philology. Vol. 1 (2016) 288-312, (ISSN 2451-9189 /

E-ISSN 2451-9197) BRILL.

5. Language, Power and Human Subject in Pinter’s Early Plays. LITERARIA: A Peer-reviewed

International Journal (ISSN 2229-4600). Vol.4, No. 2. July-Dec 2014

6. The Female Subject in Pinter’s The Collection and The Homecoming. English Studies in

India. A Refereed Journal of Language and Literature. ISSN. Vol. XXI. 2013. 103-110.

7. The Decentered Subject: Memory Plays of Pinter. Labyrinth: An International Refereed

Journal of Postmodern Studies. (Abstracted and Indexed at EBSCO Host U.S.A) Volume-3,

No.4 October-2012 (ISSN 0976-0814) 69-75.

8. Islam and the Orientalist Discourse: Need for a Positive Response. Insight Islamicus: An

Annual Peer-reviewed and Indexed Journal of Studies and Research in Islam. (ISSN-0975-

6590).Vol.11, 2011.15-25.

9. The Philosophical Roots of Postmodernism: A Critical Discussion. The Criterion: An

International Journal in English. (ISSN 0976-8165). Vol. III. Issue 1. March 2012.1-11.

10. Speaking Afresh: A Look at Ghani’s Genius. Danish: A Research Journal of Persian

Literature. (ISSN 0975-6566). Vol. XXIX. 2012. 32-40.

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11. The Problem of Referentiality in Postmodern Literature: Towards a Poetics of Double-

codedness. Contemporary Discourse: A Peer-reviewed International Journal. (ISSN 0976-

3686). Vol. II. Issue-2. July 2011.74-78.

12. Poetry as Ethical Discourse: Sheikhul Aalam’s Poetry of Commitment. Alamdaar: A Journal

of Kashmiri Society and Culture. Vol. V. No: 5. 2011(ISSN-2249-5096). 117-127.

13. Iqbal’s Criticism of Persian Mysticism: The Debate Revisited. Danish: A Research Journal

of Persian Literature. (ISSN 0975-6566). Vol. XXVIII. 2011. 25-39.

14. Poetic Influence and Individuality in the Indo-Persian Ghazal: Ghalib and his Literary

Precursors. English Studies in India. A Refereed Journal of Language and Literature .ISSN

0975-6374. Vol. XX. 2011.78-85.

15. Shakespeare Parodied: Tom Stoppard’s Postmodern Theatrics. MAJELL: An International

Peer-reviewed Bi-annual Journal. (ISSN: 0974 9268).Vol.3, No. 2. September, 2011. 71-79.

16. Language, Character and History in Postmodern Drama: Towards Formulating a Poetics. The

Criterion: An International Journal in English. (ISSN 0976-8165) Vol. II. Issue. III. September

2011. 1-10.

17. Reading Marx against the Grain: Althusser’s anti-humanism Reconsidered. English Studies

in India: A Refereed Journal of Language and Literature. (ISSN 0975-6374) Vol. XIX. 2010.

56-63

18. The Dilemma of Cultural Studies: Ideology and Identity Politics. English Studies in India: A

Refereed Journal of Language and Literature. (ISSN 0975-6374) Vol. XVIII. 2009. 103-110.

19. Harold Pinter and the Discourse of Violence. English Studies in India: A Refereed Journal

of Language and Literature. (ISSN 0975-6374) Vol. XV. 2007. 97-103.

20. Revisiting Edward Said: From Discourse to Resistance. English Studies in India: A Refereed

Journal of Language and Literature. (ISSN 0975-6374)Vol. XIV. 2006. 67-77.

21. Keats’ Nightingale Ode: A Deconstructive Reading. English Studies in India: A Refereed

Journal of Language and Literature. (ISSN 0975-6374).Vol. XII. 2004. 120-126.

Book Reviews

1. Problem of Evil in Muslim Philosophy: A Case Study of Iqbal. Journal of Indian Council of

Philosophical Research. (ISSN: 0970-7794). Vol. XXIV No.1 January-March 2007. 244-252.

2. Muslim Modernism and the Problem of Modern Science. Journal of Indian Council of

Philosophical Research. (ISSN: 0970-7794). Vol. XXIII No.4 Oct-Dec. 2006. 236-242.

Translations (from the following languages into English)

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Arabic

1. Mahmoud Dervish Tibaaaq ‘an Edward Said (The Critic in Exile: A Tribute to Edward

Said) English Studies in India. A Refereed Journal of Language and Literature. ISSN 0975-

6374. Vol.22, 2014, 156-163.

Kashmiri

2. Mahmud Gaami Pehel Naame (Moosa and the Shepherd), Kertham Manz Wuandas Jaay

(You carved a niche in my heart), Yusuf Zulaikha (Yusuf and Zulaikha: A Narrative Poem), and

several ghazals and watzuns, Sheeraza. Vol. XXIII.

3. Wahab Khaar Bambooras naage ninder cham (My bumble bee is fast asleep), Kaman seti

guom yaar (With whom has my love gone away?)

4. Rahman Rahi Dahe Wehyer (After Ten Years) English Studies in India: A Refereed

Journal of Language and Literature. Vol. 24.

5. Maqbool Shah Kralwari Gulrez (Gulrez: A Masnavi) to be published as a book.

6. Working on a collaborative project of translating Kashmiri poetry from Lalla to Rahi in

‘The Simurgh Project’ under the aegis of Sangam House, Bangalore.

7. Working as Principal Investigator on a major translation project Mahmud Gaami’s

Collected Works: Translation with Annotations sanctioned by Indian Council of

Philosophical Research (ICPR) New Delhi, in which 5000 verses of Gaami have to be

translated.

Persian

8. Tahir Ghani Kashmiri Divan-e Ghani around 500 verses translated and published as The

Captured Gazelle: The Poems of Ghani Kashmiri, a Penguin Classic.

9. Poems of Shah-i Hamadan, Mohsin Fani, Kaleem Kashani, Mirza Ghalib, Saib

Tabrizi, Farrukh Forougzad and some other Persian poets, published in several research

papers and read in seminar presentations such as ‘Reading Local Poetry in a Global World’

at CSDS, Delhi and ‘World Philology Seminars’, Frei University, Berlin etc.

Urdu

10. Several short poems and ghazals of Akbar Allahabadi, Mir Taqi Mir and Iqbal.

Seminar Presentations

1. Eco-criticism at Crossroads: Towards a Spiritual Solution to the Environmental Crisis.

Three-day International Seminar organised by Department of English, University of

Kashmir from 23 to 26 April 2018.

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2. Rescuing History: Contesting Ideological Constructions of Kashmir. Historiographic

Metafiction: Problematizing History and Redefining Fiction. Three-day National

Seminar organised by Department of English, University of Kashmir from 20 to 23 April

2017.

2. Reading the Quran as Literature. Revisiting the Classics in Postmodern Secular Age.

Two-day National Seminar organised by Department of English, University of Kashmir on

21-22 October, 2015.

3. Sabk-e Hindi and the Poetics of Defamiliarization. Literary Legacy of Indo-Central

Asia, Afghanistan and Iran. Three-day International Seminar organised by Centre of

Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir from 31st March to 2nd April, 2015.

4. Piety as a Critique of Secular Feminism: Reading Saba Mahmood on Religious

Subjectivities. Literature and the Sacred. Three-day National Seminar organised by

Department of English, University of Kashmir. 24-26 March, 2014.

5. Rishi/Sufi Texts and the Emergence of Muslim Identity in Kashmir. Presentation at World

Philology Seminar at Freie University, Berlin, Germany on 17th January, 2013.

6. Approaching Kashmir’s Hagiography. Presentation at Centre for the Studies of

Developing Societies, New Delhi. 2nd International Winter School of Zukunftsphilologie,

Berlin, 13th December, 2012.

7. How not to Read Iqbal: A Response to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. One-day Iqbal Seminar

conducted by Iqbal Institute of Culture and Philosophy, University of Kashmir on 19 April,

2012.

8. Between Tradition and Modernity: Iranian Women Poets in Search of a Voice. Women’s

Writing: Language, Literature and Theory. Three-day National Seminar conducted by

Department of English, University of Kashmir. 19-21 March, 2012.

9. Shah-i Hamadan’s Devotional Poetry: A Study of Chahal Asraar. Shah-i Hamadan’s

Contribution to Learning. Three-day International Seminar. Department of Islamic

Studies, University of Kashmir. 13-15 March, 2012.

10. Crisis in Modern Persian Literature. Modern Persian Literature. Two-day National

Seminar conducted by Department of Persian, University of Kashmir. 7-8 December 2011.

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11. Literary Construction of Kashmir: A Re-examination. Tradition and Dissent in Indian

History with Special Reference to Kashmir. Three-day National Seminar conducted by

Department of History, University of Kashmir. 24-26 March 2011.

12. Literary Theory in the Indian Context: Towards Appropriating a Transcendental

Dimension. English Language and Literature in India: Issues in Policy, Pedagogy and

Research. Three-day National Seminar conducted by Department of English, University of

Kashmir. 14-16 March 2011

13. Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Islam and Postcolonialism. Postcolonial Theory and

Literature: Changing Perspectives and Trends. Three-day National Seminar conducted

by Department of English, University of Kashmir. 20-22 Oct.2009.

14. Revelation, Historicity and Ijtihad: Some Observations on Fazlur Rahman and

Muhammad Arkoun. Theories of Islamic Law: The Methodology of Ijtihad. Two-day

International Seminar conducted by Department of Law, University of Kashmir. 18-19 July

2009.

15. Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies: Ideologies and Politics. Cultural Studies and

Literary Discourse.Three-day National Seminar conducted by Department of English,

University of Kashmir. 16-18 March 2009.

16. Language, Discourse and Violence: An Assessment of Harold Pinter. Politics of

Language and Literature.Three-day National Seminar conducted by Department of

English, University of Kashmir. 4-6 Sept. 2006.

17. Edward Said and Foucauldian Discourse. Postcolonial Studies: Issues and

Challenges. Three-day National Seminar conducted by Department of English, University

of Kashmir. 26-28 Sep. 2005.

18. Tom Stoppard and Postmodern Theatre. Postmodernism: Language and Literature.

Three-day National Seminar conducted by Department of English, University of Kashmir.

24-26 Aug. 2004.

Workshops/Seminar Attended as Resource Person/ Participant

1. Participated in a Five-day State Writers Camp held at Yusmarg, Kashmir organised

by Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Arts, Languages and Culture from 25 to 29 August

2017.

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2. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Historiographic Metafiction:

Problematizing History and Redefining Fiction organised by Department of English,

University of Kashmir from 20 to 23 April 2017.

3. Participated as a Resource Person in Three-day workshop Translating the

Vernacular from 23-05-2016 to 25-05-2016 organised by Department of English,

University of Kashmir

4. Participated as a Resource Person in Three-day workshop Translating the

Vernacular from 23-03- 2016 to 25-03-2016 organised by Department of English,

University of Kashmir

5. Participated as a Resource Person in Eight-day translation workshop titled Simurgh:

Translating Kashmiri Poetry from Lalla to Rahi organised by Sangam House,

Bangalore from 9-6-2015 to 16-6-2015.

6. Participated in a Two-day National seminar Revisiting the Classics in Postmodern

Secular Age from 13-10- 2015 to 14-10-2015 organised by Department of English,

University of Kashmir.

7. Participated in a Three-day International seminar Literary Legacy of Indo-Central

Asia, Afghanistan and Iran organised by Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of

Kashmir from 31-03-2015 to 02-04-2015.

8. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Literature and the Sacred organised by

Department of English, University of Kashmir from 24-26 March. 2014.

9. Participated in a One-day Arbeitsgespräch / Workshop on ‘Commitment and Dissent

in Arabic Literature since the 1950s’ on June 27, 2013 at Wissenchaft College, Berlin.

10. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘The Workings of Writing:

Transitions to Literacy in 16th-17th Century Mesoamerican and Andean Historical

Traditions’on June 26, 2013 at Freie University of Berlin.

11. Participated in a Three-day Seminar on ‘Semitic Philology within European

Intellectual History: Constructions of Race, Religion and Language in Scholarly

Practice’ from June 19 to June 21, 2013 at Freie University of Berlin.

12. Participated in a One-day Workshop on ‘At the Threshold of Rabbinic Law:

Textuality and Liminality in Jewish and Islamic Legal Cultures’ on June 17, 2013 at

Freie University of Berlin.

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13. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘Between Local and

Transregional: Community in 18th Century Indo-Persian Commemorative Text’ on

June 06, 2013 at Freie University of Berlin.

14. Participated in a One-day Workshop on ‘Was there "Antiquarianism" in the

Islamic World? European and Arabic-Islamic Historiographical Traditions in

Conversation’on May 30, 2013 at Wissenchaft College, Berlin.

15. Participated in a One-day Arbeitsgespräch / Workshop on ‘Wrath or Mercy?

Trajectories of Divine Commitment in the Quran’ on May 29, 2013 at Wissenchaft

College, Berlin.

16. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘Philology and Politics of

Tradition among Arab Intellectuals’ on May 23, 2013 at Freie University of Berlin.

17. Participated in a One-day EUME Berliner Seminar on ‘Secularism, Sexuality, and

Sectarian Conflict: A Postcolonial Genealogy from Egypt’ on May 15, 2013 at

Wissenchaft College, Berlin.

18. Participated in a Two-day Workshop on ‘Commentary Cultures: Technologies of

Medieval Reading’ on May16 and 17, 2013 at Max Planck Institute for the History of

Science, Berlin.

19. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘Style at the Scale of the

Sentence’ on April 18, 2013 at Freie University of Berlin.

20. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘On Sponges and Lost Love:

Three Poems and a Few Comments on Iraqi Jewish History’ on February 20, 2013 at

Freie University of Berlin.

21. Participated in a One-day EUME Lecture-cum-Seminar on ‘Islam, Secularism and

Intellectuals’ on February14, 2013 at Wissenchaft College, Berlin.

22. Participated in a One-day EUME Lecture-cum-Seminar on ‘The Culture of

Sectarianism Reconsidered: Religion, History, and Politics in the Arab World’ on

February 13, 2013 at Wissenchaft College, Berlin.

23. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘Is Modern Hebrew a

Semitic Language? A Political-Linguistic Debate’ on January 31, 2013 at Freie

University of Berlin.

24. Participated in a One-day EUME Berliner Seminar on ‘Requiem for the

Intellectual: The Failure of Enlightenment in Rashid al-Daif’s Paving the Sea’ on

Jan 23, 2013 at Wissenchaft College, Berlin.

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25. Participated in a Ten-day Zukunftsphilologie Winter School on Philology Across the

Cultures: The Translation, Translation and Transformation of Knowledge in the

Early Modern World from December 11-21, 2012 at the Centre for the Study of

Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi.

26. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘Is Internationality

Synonymous with Interculturality? 19th Century Orientalist Congresses and East-

West Intellectual Encounters’ on November 15, 2012 at Freie University of Berlin.

27. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘Old Words, New Worlds:

The Philologist, in and out of Empire’ on November 8, 2012 at Freie University of

Berlin.

28. Participated in a One-day World Philology Seminar on ‘Roots, Nets and Trees:

Future Comparative Philology’ on October 25, 2012 at Freie University of Berlin.

29. Participated in a Three-day National seminar Women’s Writing: Language,

Literature andTheory. Three-day National Seminar organised by Department of

English, University of Kashmir from 19-21 March, 2012.

30. Participated in a Three-day International seminar Shah-i Hamadan’s Contribution

to Learning organised by Department of Islamic Studies, University of Kashmir from

13-15 March, 2012.

31. Participated in a Two-day National seminar Modern Persian Literature organised

by Department of Persian, University of Kashmir on 7-8 December 2011.

32. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Tradition and Dissent in Indian

History with Special Reference to Kashmir organised by Department of History,

University of Kashmir from 24-26 March 2011.

33. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar English Language and Literature in

India: Issues in Policy, Pedagogy and Research organised by Department of English,

University of Kashmir from 14-16 March 2011.

34. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Postcolonial Theory and Literature:

Changing Perspectives and Trends organised by Department of English, University of

Kashmir from 4-6 September 2009.

35. Participated in a Two-day International Seminar Theories of Islamic Law: The

Methodology of Ijtihad organised by Department of Law, University of Kashmir from

18-19 July 2009.

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36. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Cultural Studies and Literary

Discourse organised by Department of English, University of Kashmir from 16-18

March, 2009.

37. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Politics of Language and Literature

organised by Department of English, University of Kashmir from 4-6 September, 2006.

38. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Postcolonial Studies: Issues and

Challenges organised by Department of English, University of Kashmir from 26-28

September, 2005.

39. Participated in a Three-day National Seminar Postmodernism: Language and

Literature organised by Department of English, University of Kashmir from 24-26

August, 2004.

Sessions Chaired

1. Mana Kia’s lecture ‘Between Local and Transregional: Community in 18th-Century Indo-

Persian’at Freie University, Berlin on June 6, 2013.

2. Ananya Kabir’s lecture ‘Philologist in and out of Empire’ at Freie University, Berlin on

November 8, 2012

Research Guidance

Degree Name

Department

Title Status

1. Ph.D Bilkees Dar Iqbal Institute.

K.U

Epic Poetry of Dante, Milton and

Iqbal

Awarded

2. Ph.D Muhammad

Ashraf Najar

Department of

English, K.U

Marxist Critique of

Postmodernism: A Critical Study

of Terry Eagleton and Frederic

Jameson

Submitted

3. Ph.D Master

Showkat

Department of

English, K.U

The Quest for Eternity: A

Comparative Study of Lal Ded and

Emily Dickinson

Ongoing

4. Ph.D Abid Ali Department of

English, K.U

Art and Artificial Intelligence:

Production And Consumption of

Literature in New Media

Ongoing

5. Ph. D Insha Iftikhar Department of

English, K.U

From Christian to Postmodern

Fantasy: A Study of C.S.Lewis and

Philip Pullman

Ongoing

6.

Ph.D Najma Department of

English, K.U

Reconstructing the Past: A Study

of Gabrial Garcia Marquez and

Mario Vargas Llosa

Ongoing

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7. Ph.D Samee-ul Haq

Nazki

Department of

English, K.U

British Socialist Drama: A

Comparative Study

of Edward Bond and Arnold

Wesker

Ongoing

7. M.Phil Sadia Shabir Department of

English, K.U

Narratives of Intertextuality: A

Study of John Fowles’ The

Magus, The French Lieutenant’s

Woman and A Maggot

Awarded

8. M.Phil Mariya Nighat Department of

English, K.U

Spiritual Odysseys of Iqbal and

Eliot: A Study of Javed Nama and

Four Quartets

Awarded

9. M.Phil Samee-ul Haq

Nazki

Department of

English, K.U

Theatre of Social Commitment: A

Study

of Edward Bond Select Plays

Awarded

10.

M.Phil Arisa Qureshi Department of

English, K.U

The Socialist-Feminist Perspective

in the Select Plays of Caryl

Churshill

Awarded

11. M.Phil Sameena Hafiz

Khan

Iqbal Institute.

K.U

Revolutionary Poetics: A

Comparative Study of Iqbal and

Shelley.

Awarded

12. M.Phil Tahmeena

Hussain

Iqbal Institute.

K.U

Western Critics on Iqbal Awarded

13. M.Phil Masooda

Jahan Ara

Iqbal Institute.

K.U

Symbolism and Social Concerns in

the Poetry of William

Blake and Iqbal: A Comparative

Study

Awarded

Lectures delivered in various teacher training programmes

Name of the Event Title of Lecture Venue Date

1 73th General

Orientation Course

Man’s Eternal Quest-I UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

06-12-2016

2 73th General

Orientation Course

Man’s Eternal Quest-II UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

06-12-2016

3 72th General

Orientation Course

Metaphysics Institute of Advanced

Studies in Education

19-10-2016

4 Special Winter School Culture and Crisis of

Modernity-I

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

12-02-2016

5 Special Winter School Culture and Crisis of

Modernity-II

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

12-02-2016

6 70thGeneral

Orientation Course

The Importance of Arts

in the Age of

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

13-01-2016

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Technology

7 Special Summer

School

Preliminaries of

Modernism

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

28-07-2015

8 Special Summer

School

The Making of the

Modern World

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

28-07-2015

9 69th General

Orientation Course

The Post-

Enlightenment World:

A Discussion

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

03-12-2015

10 69th General

Orientation Course

Human Sensibility and

Poetic Language

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

10-11-2015

11 66th General

Orientation Course

Poetry and its Various

Dimensions

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

28-10-2014

12 Special Summer

School

Mysticism in Poetry UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

21-08-2014

13 65th General

Orientation Course

Human Mortality in

Ancient and Modern

Literature

UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

02-08-2014

14 Special Winter School Introduction to Poetry UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, K.U

06-02-2014

15 Refresher Course in

Women’s Studies

Subjectivity and

Gender

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

14-09-2012

16 59th General

Orientation Course

Theology and

Philosophy: A

Comparative Study

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

12-09-2012

17 Refresher Course on

Research

Methodology in Social

Sciences and

Humanities

Ideology: An

Introduction

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

21-06-2012

18 Refresher Course on

Research

Methodology in Social

Sciences and

Humanities

Marxism and Ideology UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

21-06-2012

19 58th General

Orientation Course

Literature: A

Philosophical Inquiry

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

09-05-2012

20 56th General

Orientation Course

An Introduction to the

Study of Literature

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

14-12-2011

21 8th Refresher Course in

English

Literary Theory and

Criticism-I

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

05-03-2009

22 8th Refresher Course in

English

Literary Theory and

Criticism-II

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

06-03-2009

23 8th Refresher Course in

English

Literary Theory and

Criticism-III

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

07-03-2009

24 8th Refresher Course in Literary Theory and UGC-Academic Staff 19-03-2009

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English Criticism-IV College, K.U

25 8th Refresher Course in

English

Literary Theory and

Criticism-V

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

20-03-2009

26 8th Refresher Course in

English

Literary Theory and

Criticism-VI

UGC-Academic Staff

College, K.U

20-03-2009

27 3rd One Week

Induction Programme

Language and its

Creative Use

Institute of Advanced

Studies in Education, M.A.

Road, Srinagar

04-02-2017

28 4th One Week

Induction Programme

The Idea of Truth in

Literature

Institute of Advanced

Studies in Education, M.A.

Road, Srinagar

18-0202017

29 5th One Week

Induction Programme

The Theme of

Mortality in Literature

Institute of Advanced

Studies in Education, M.A.

Road, Srinagar

04-02-2017

30 6th One Week

Induction Programme

Some Dimensions of

Urdu Poetry

Institute of Advanced

Studies in Education, M.A.

Road, Srinagar

24-03-2017

31 Ten-day International

Summer School

The Concept of

Revelation in Islam

Department of Islamic

Studies, IUST.

26-6-2018

32 Ten-day International

Summer School

Approaching the Quran

as Literature

Department of Islamic

Studies, IUST.

27-6-2018

33 Ten-day International

Summer School

Quranic Hermeneutics-

I

Department of Islamic

Studies, IUST.

28-6-2018

34 Ten-day International

Summer School

Quranic Hermeneutics-

II

Department of Islamic

Studies, IUST.

30-6-2018

35 Ten-day International

Summer School

Quranic Hermeneutics-

III

Department of Islamic

Studies, IUST.

30-6-2018

Other Administrative and Academic Responsibilities

Co-ordinator, Directorate of Internal Quality Assurance (DIQA), University of Kashmir

since March 2016.

Member, Central Screening Committee, University of Kashmir since April 2016.

Nodal Officer, DIQA, Department of English (2007-2008, 2009-2012).

Member of various Boards and Committees, Department of English.

Editor English Studies in India: A Refereed Journal of Language and Literature since 2013.

Member, Editorial Board, Iqbaliyaat: A Refereed Journal of Iqbal Studies. Iqbal Institute

of Culture and Philosophy, K.U.

Member, DRC, Iqbal Institute of Culture and Philosophy, K.U.

Editor (English) Alamdaar: A Journal of Kashmiri Society and Culture in 2012 and 2013.

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Training/Orientation/Refresher Courses Attended

20-days’ Orientation Course organised by Al-Hikmah Institute, Al-Mustafa University,

Qom, Iran from 18-2-2018 to 8-3-2018.

One-week Workshop on Research Methodology for Humanities UGC-Human Resource

Development Centre, University of Kashmir from 1st September to 8th September, 2015.

‘Philology Across Cultures’ Ten days Winter School from 10-21 December organized by

Zukunftsphilologie and CSDS in New Delhi.

Refresher Course in Computer Applications (Multi-disciplinary) Academic Staff College,

University of Kashmir from 26th December, 2013 to 20th January, 2014.

General Orientation Course organized by Academic Staff College, University of Kashmir

from 11-1-2010 to 17-2-2010.