Curriculum Vitae

DR. NUKHBAH TAJ LANGAH

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of English
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
    Resistance , South Asia, 9/11, Siraiki, post-Partition, Nationalism, Ethnonationalism, Identity, Pakistan

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • B.A, (Arts)
    Punjab University, Pakistan
  • Bachelor (Honours), (English Literature)
    University of Buckingham
  • Masters (MA), (Colonial & Postcolonial Literature)
    Warwick University, UK
  • PhD, (English Language and Literature)
    Leeds University, Leeds, UK

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • FASS Writing Fellowship
    27 Oct 2023 - 29 Dec 2023 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
  1. Nukhbah Taj Langah (2024) Siraiki Language Speakers in London: A Case Study, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2023.2289743
  2. Langah, Nukhbah Taj and Umrani, Sumera (2022) "Gender, Sexuality and Representation in Pakistani Literature: Qandeel Baloch as a Victim of Honor Killing," Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 24: Iss. 6, Article 13.
  3. Langah, N. T. (2014). Tracing Sufi influence in the works of contemporary Siraiki Poet, Riffat Abbas. South Asian Diaspora, 6(2), 193-208.
Books
  1. Langah, N. T., & Sengupta, R. (Eds.). (2021). Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia: Beyond Partition. Taylor & Francis.
  2. Langah, N. T., & Sengupta, R. (Eds.). (2021). Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia: Beyond Partition. Taylor & Francis.
  3. Langah, N. T. (2020). Poetry as Resistance: Islam and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Pakistan. Taylor & Francis.
Chapter in Books
  1. Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture edited by Waseem Anwar and Nosheen Yousaf ( Routledge, 2022)
  2. Ethnic-Federalism in Pakistan at 70: Local, National, and Comparative Perspectives, ed. Ryan Brasher (Oxford University Press, Pakistan 2020)
  3. Langah, N. and Kamal Ud Din, ‘Dada Negativity and Pakistani Characters for Bollywood Films' in The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad, ed. Anjali Gera Roy (Sage Publications, India, 2012). Print ISBN: 9788132107323
Other Publications
  1. Langah, N and Goutam Karmakar (Guest Editors), Special Issue “Religion, Secularism and Nationalism", South East Asian Review of English - SARE, Department of English, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) (July 2023) - Framework

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2023 - 2024, University Grant
    Archives of Siraiki Cultural and Political History in Pakistan ( Principal Investigator(PI))
International
  1. 2019 - 2022, Global Challenges Research Fund UK
    Project Partner Lead from Forman Christian College University with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield) as Principal Investigator for Advancing Female Literacy and Empowerment in Pakistan and India through Life Writing' grant for Global Challenges Research Fund quality related (QR) funding (UK), 2019-2022 ( Co-Researcher)

PAPER PRESENTED

INVITED SPEAKER
  1. The Need for Digitizing and Globalizing Siraiki Indigenous Knowledge from Vasaib, Geopolitics from Below: Affect and Social Sciences in Pakistan, Dr Salman Khan Lecturer in Development Geography, KCL (London) (University) (08 Jan 2024 - 09 Jan 2024)
  2. The Endangered Siraiki Folk Literature and the Need for Digitising and Globalizing, Humanities and Social Sciences Seminar Series at LUMS, Dr. Amen Jaffer and Dr. Ghazal Saif (University) (08 Feb 2023 - 08 Feb 2023)
ORAL PRESENTER
  1. The Ecofeminist Perspectives in Contemporary Siraiki Literature, Environmental Hazards and Gender Issues: (Re)imagining Literature, Language, and Culture of the Global South, Professor Hossain Al Mamun (International) (16 Jan 2024 - 17 Jan 2024)
  2. A Journey of Introducing Academic Writing in an Evolving Liberal Arts Institution in Pakistan: A Case Study of Forman Christian College University (FCCU), Write Now Workshop (for paper contributors of "Write Now" anthology), Deborah Lindsay Williams, Marrion Wren, Piia Mustamaki (University) (30 Sep 2023 - 30 Sep 2023)
  3. The Quest for Identity in Hanif Kureshi's Buddha of Suburbia, Refugee Resistance and Recognition: Global Literary Representations in [post]Postcolonial Perspectives, Department of English (University) (24 Feb 2022 - 25 Dec 2023)
POSTER PRESENTER
  1. Archives of Siraiki Cultural & Political History of Pakistan, FASS Exhibition, TDPP FSSS (University) (11 Jan 2024 - 12 Jan 2024)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Evaluation
  1. (2024) Safwah Abdul Razak Proposal Defense, University, (Reviewer)
  2. (2024) Panel for Niloufar Khosravi Balalmi Presubmission, University, (Reviewer)
  3. (2024) Proposal for Ma Thesis for Ummu Alia Izzati Binti Huzaidi (Ma) - S2022917/1, University, (Internal Examiner)
  4. (2023) Mohamad Haziq Bin Mohamad Azmi Ma Pd - Collaboration Between Two Cultures: Interculturalism in Mak Yong Titis Sakti and Sintang Dalisay, University, (Reviewer)
  5. (2023) Panel Member for Ngoi Hui Chien 2182864 - Topic : The Japanese Empire in English Novels: An Inter-Imperial and Psychoanalytic Analysis of The (in)Secure Self, University, (Reviewer)
  6. (2023) Reviewer of Article, University, (Reviewer)
Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2024) Editorial Board Member Critical Pakistan Studies (Cambridge Univeristy Press), International, (Technical Advisor)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2023) THE REVISIONING OF TEXT TO FILM PARADIGMS FROM AN AFFECTIVE-MATERIAL ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVE, EMAN ABDULATEEF ABDULRAHEEM BAKHSH
  2. (2023) Utopian Facade and Dystopian Realities: A Feminist Comparative Study of Women’s Experiences and Status in Speculative Societies., NUR A'LIYAH IMAN BINTI MOHD NAZLAN EZA
  3. (2023) From “darkness” and “wounded” to “mutinies” : A Postcolonial and Marxist Rereading of V.S. Naipaul’s Indian Trilogy, PRIYASREE A/P SURYANARAYANAN
  4. (2023) Minor Literature by Contemporary Muslim Arab-American Women: Repression and Resistance in Selected Poems by Kahf, Almontaser, Hammad and Helal, BAYAN MOHSIN HAMED AL HADHRAMI
Under Graduate Students
  1. (2023) The Psychoanalytical Approaches to Gothic Literature: An Analysis of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  2. (2023) Perceiving Feminist Identity in a World of Cultural Hybridity: Analysing Female Roles in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink
  3. (2023) Oppression of Women in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale From a Socialist Feminist Perspective
  4. (2023) Oppression, Gender Inequality and Patriarchy in Love in The Kingdom of Oil by Nawal El Saadawi
  5. (2022) Please Look After Mom: Intergenerational Struggles Faced by Women in Asian Households
  6. (2022) Marxism in American literature-Babbitt, The Grapes of Wrath and Death of a Salesman
  7. (2022) Environmental Attitude depicted in The Overstory by Richard Powers.

TEACHING

Master
  1. (2023) AOA7025 - Theories in Literature
Bachelor
  1. (2023) AIC3016 - Reading World Literature
  2. (2023) AIC3003 - Women and Literature
  3. (2022) AIC1003 - Aspects of Poetry
  4. (2022) AIC2020 - Exploring Travel Literature
  5. (2022) AIC2007 - World Literature

COURSE ATTENDED

Internal / External Course
RESEARCH
  1. ARCHIVES OF SIRAIKI CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY IN PAKISTAN (PAKISTAN) PROJECT ? MEAP-5-0107, (23 Aug 2023 - 21 Sep 2023)
External Course
INTERNATIONAL
  1. Write Now Workshop (online), New York University (Abu Dhabi) (30 Sep 2023 - 30 Dec 2023)