Dr. Rabia Aamir
- Assistant Professor
- raamir@numl.edu.pk
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.
Experience
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
Publication(s)
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
Area Of Interest
- 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