Curriculum Vitae

DR. NUKHBAH TAJ LANGAH

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of English
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • nukhbahlangah
  • 0379675505

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

  • Coordinator for Health & Safety and Website
    12 Jan 2024 - 12 Jan 2025 (Department)
  • Curriculum Review
    01 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024 (University Malaya)
  • Appointed as AJK Curriculum Review of the Bachelor of English Literature program
    01 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024 (Department)
  • Supervisor
    07 Oct 2024 - 07 Oct 2024 (Department)
  • FASS Writing Fellowship
    27 Oct 2023 - 29 Dec 2023 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Langah, Nukhbah Taj (2024). Siraiki Language Speakers in London: A Case Study, SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES. 47(2), 414-433. doi:10.1080/00856401.2023.2289743
  2. Langah, Nukhbah Taj; Sengupta, Roshni (2022). Art and visual culture, FILM, MEDIA, AND REPRESENTATION IN POSTCOLONIAL SOUTH ASIA. , 75-80. doi:10.4324/9781003167655-7
  3. Langah, Nukhbah Taj; Sengupta, Roshni (2022). Conclusion: Reflections Building bridges, FILM, MEDIA, AND REPRESENTATION IN POSTCOLONIAL SOUTH ASIA. , 203-207. doi:10.4324/9781003167655-15
  4. Langah, Nukhbah Taj; Sengupta, Roshni (2022). Cyber space, social media, and digital texts, FILM, MEDIA, AND REPRESENTATION IN POSTCOLONIAL SOUTH ASIA. , 155-159. doi:10.4324/9781003167655-11
  5. Langah, Nukhbah Taj; Sengupta, Roshni (2022). Introduction: Moving beyond partitions Theorising the academic dialogue, FILM, MEDIA, AND REPRESENTATION IN POSTCOLONIAL SOUTH ASIA. , 1-7. doi:10.4324/9781003167655-1
  6. Langah, Nukhbah Taj; Sengupta, Roshni (2022). Soft power: performance, film, and television, FILM, MEDIA, AND REPRESENTATION IN POSTCOLONIAL SOUTH ASIA. , 9-17. doi:10.4324/9781003167655-2
Others
  1. 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.
  2. 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

International
  1. 2024 - 2025, International Funding
    Meap-5-0107 - Archives Of Siraiki Cultural And Political History In Pakistan ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2024 - 2025, Modern Endangered Archives Program
    Archives of Siraiki Cultural and Political History in Pakistan (Pakistan)., University of California, Los Angeles ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  3. 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)
University
  1. 2023 - 2025, University Grant
    Archives Of Siraiki Cultural And Political History In Pakistan ( Principal Investigator(PI))

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. Present Practices And Future Impact : Multilingualism In The Undergraduate Writing Classroom, , Twenty-second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Sapienza University of Rome (University) (26 Sep 2024 - 28 Sep 2024)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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) Ummu Alia Izzati Binti Huzaidi( S2022917/1) "Discourse and The Author in Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven", University, (Internal Examiner)
  2. (2024) " The Japanese Empire in Contemporary Novels in English: An Inter-Imperial Analysis ", University, (Internal Examiner)
  3. (2024) " The Japanese Empire in Contemporary Novels in English: An Inter-Imperial Analysis ", University, (Internal Examiner)
  4. (2024) The Japanese Empire in Contemporary Novels in English: An Inter-Imperial Analysis", University, (Internal Examiner)
  5. (2024) "Discourse and The Author in Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven", University, (Internal Examiner)
  6. (2024) "Discourse and The Author in Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven", National, (Internal Examiner)
  7. (2024) Article Reviewer, International, (External Evaluator)
  8. (2024) Discourse and The Author in Emily St. John Mandel’S Station Eleven, University, (Internal Examiner)
  9. (2024) The Sikh Diaspora: Navigating Cultural Identities and Masculinities Through Diasporic Consciousness in Men’S Life Writings, University, (Reviewer)
  10. (2024) The Japanese Empire in English Novels: An Inter-Imperial and Psychoanalytic Analysis of The (in)Secure Self, University, (Internal Examiner)
  11. (2024) Discourse and The Author in Emily St John Mandel’S Station Eleven, University, (Internal Examiner)
  12. (2024) "My Tongue Will Tell The Anger of My Heart”: The Female Voice in 10 Things I Hate About You and Deliver Us from Eva, University, (Internal Examiner)
  13. (2024) Safwah Abdul Razak Proposal Defense, University, (Reviewer)
  14. (2024) Proposal for Ma Thesis for Ummu Alia Izzati Binti Huzaidi (Ma) - S2022917/1, University, (Internal Examiner)
  15. (2023) Mohamad Haziq Bin Mohamad Azmi Ma Pd - Collaboration Between Two Cultures: Interculturalism in Mak Yong Titis Sakti and Sintang Dalisay, University, (Reviewer)
  16. (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)
  17. (2023) Reviewer of Article, University, (Reviewer)
Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2024) Editorial Board Member Critical Pakistan Studies (Cambridge Univeristy Press), International, (Technical Advisor)
Contribution to event
  1. (2024) Scientific Committee Member, International, (Participant)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2024) The Orient is Alive: post 9/11 World, FARAH NAZEER
  2. (2023) THE REVISIONING OF TEXT TO FILM PARADIGMS FROM AN AFFECTIVE-MATERIAL ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVE, EMAN ABDULATEEF ABDULRAHEEM BAKHSH
  3. (2024) 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
  4. (2024) 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
Under Graduate Students
  1. (2024) Mapping Queer Lives in East Asian Literature: A Study of Identity, Memory and Resistance in the novel Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
  2. (2024) Industrial Training
  3. (2024) Echoes of Creation: Identity and Conflict in the Bildungsroman of To Kill a Mockingbird and Frankenstein
  4. (2024) Confronting the Absurd: Existential Isolation and the Search for Meaning in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
  5. (2024) Industrial Training, Khoo Yin Kang
  6. (2023) The Psychoanalytical Approaches to Gothic Literature: An Analysis of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  7. (2023) Perceiving Feminist Identity in a World of Cultural Hybridity: Analysing Female Roles in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink
  8. (2023) Oppression of Women in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale From a Socialist Feminist Perspective
  9. (2023) Oppression, Gender Inequality and Patriarchy in Love in The Kingdom of Oil by Nawal El Saadawi
  10. (2022) Please Look After Mom: Intergenerational Struggles Faced by Women in Asian Households
  11. (2022) Marxism in American literature-Babbitt, The Grapes of Wrath and Death of a Salesman
  12. (2022) Environmental Attitude depicted in The Overstory by Richard Powers.

TEACHING

Master
  1. (2025) AOA7025 - Theories in Literature
  2. (2024) AOA7024 - Global Women’S Literature
  3. (2024) AOA7025 - Theories in Literature
  4. (2023) AOA7025 - Theories in Literature
Bachelor
  1. (2024) AIC2020 - Exploring Travel Literature
  2. (2024) AIC3003 - Women and Literature
  3. (2024) AIC1008 - Writing About Literature Ii
  4. (2023) AIC3016 - Reading World Literature
  5. (2023) AIC3003 - Women and Literature
  6. (2022) AIC1003 - Aspects of Poetry
  7. (2022) AIC2020 - Exploring Travel Literature
  8. (2022) AIC2007 - World Literature

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACTIVITIES

  • Judging Exercise for Ustem = Samsung Solve for Tomorrow - Phase I, (29 Sep 2024 - 30 Sep 2024) (University)

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)
CONFERENCE
  1. TWENTY-SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES , Sapienza University of Rome (25 Jun 2024 - 29 Jun 2024)
External Course
INTERNATIONAL
  1. Write Now Workshop (online), New York University (Abu Dhabi) (30 Sep 2023 - 30 Dec 2023)