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Dr. Rabia Aamir

Assistant Professor

2024-2025 Postdoc from CES, University of Coimbra Portugal. (Ongoing)

2023-2025 Postdoc from CIGA, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University—Continued affiliation as a Non-Resident Research Fellow June 2024-June 2025.

2020 PhD in English Literature. NUML.

Thesis/ Dissertation Topic: Questioning Idées Reçues: A Study of Interpellative Strategies and Environmental Ethics in Basharat Peer and Ghada Karmi’s Memoirs.

2015-Present Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Managing Editor of the NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, NUML, Islamabad

Editor, NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, NUML, Islamabad

Jan 2019-Mar 2024 Coordinator, Sophy’s Forum, NUML Islamabad

Jan - June 2015 Lecturer in Department of English Literature and Applied Linguistics NUML Islamabad

Aug 2012- Jan 2015 Lecturer/ Social Events Deviser, NUML Karachi Campus

Aug 2011- Aug 2012 Lecturer in English, Mass Communication Department, NUML Islamabad

Oct 2007- Aug 2011 Lecturer in Graduate Studies Department/ NUML Peshawar Campus

Oct 2003-Feb 2005 Connoisseur Grammar School, Sargodha

Sep 2001- Aug 2003 Fazaia Model School Badaber, Peshawar

Oct 1992- Jan1993 Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore

Sep1988- Mar1993 Sacred Heart Convent School, Lahore

1. Rabia Aamir. (31 December 2024). Decolonizing Post-Truths in Mediatic Encounters for Farha (2021) and Half Widow (2017). Journal of Research in Humanities, P-ISSN: 1812-1128, E-ISSN: 2522-6851, 60(2), 25-46. https://jrh.pu.edu.pk/index.php/Journal/article/view/346

2. Rabia Aamir, (Autumn 2024) “Qur’ānic Worldview and the Environment: Prophet Muḥammad as an Environmental Ethicist,” Islamic Studies, ISSN (P): 0578-8072, ISSN (E): 2710-5326, 63(3), pp. 315-334. https://doi.org/10.52541/isiri.v63i3.3137

3. Ayesha Zahoor & Rabia Aamir. (18 July 2024) “Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary.” Life Writing, ISSN (P): 1448-4528, ISSN (E): 1751-2964, 22(1), pp. 37-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2024.2375657

4. Aamir R., (2023). Environmental Ethics: Life Narratives from Kashmir & Palestine, Vanguard Books, Lahore: Pakistan. ISBN: 978-969-402-657-2

5. Aamir R., (2022). “Ecumenical environmental ethics in post 9/11 Pakistan’s diasporic fiction: Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transcultural multiculturalism in south asian literature” in Postcolonial literature: A study of past, present and future trends. Ed. Sakshi Semwal. https://www.flipkart.com/postcolonial-literature-selected-essays-past-present-future-trends/p/itm31a5ca83fc211. ISBN: 9789391943097

6. Rabia Aamir. (4th Jan 2022) “‘Changed Landscape’ of an ‘Arab Place:’ A Study of an Interpellated Realm in Karmi’s Return” Insight Turkey Vol. 24 / No. 1 / pp. 173-193. DOI: 10.25253/99.2022241.10

Contemporary Literature
Poetry
Decoloniality
Literary Theory
Middle Eastern and Kashmiri Literature
Ecocriticism
Postcolonial Environmental Ethic
Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction and Nonfiction
Iqbaliyat and Quranic Studies

Education

2024-2025 Postdoc from CES, University of Coimbra Portugal. (Ongoing)

2023-2025 Postdoc from CIGA, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University—Continued affiliation as a Non-Resident Research Fellow June 2024-June 2025.

2020 PhD in English Literature. NUML.

Thesis/ Dissertation Topic: Questioning Idées Reçues: A Study of Interpellative Strategies and Environmental Ethics in Basharat Peer and Ghada Karmi’s Memoirs.

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