Department of English and Literary Studies

Current Research and Publications

MPhil English Literature PhD-English Literature

MPhil English Literature

Dissertation Title: The Philosopher and The Idealist Meet: Faiz in Iqbal's Court

  • Researcher: Faiza Azmat Raja
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Naveed Rehan

Dissertation Title: Mata Hari's Encounter with Patriarchal Regimes: A Socialist-Feminist Analysis of Paulo Coehlo's Novel The Spy

  • Researcher: Zahra Saeed
  • Research Supervisor: Mr Muhammad Furqan Tanvir

Dissertation Title: Dynamics of  a Deviant Father-Daughter Relationship: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Gabriel Tallent's My Absolute Darling

  • Researcher: Kinza Muzzamil
  • Research Supervisor: Mr Muhammad Furqan Tanvir

Dissertation Title: Creative Nonfiction: The Pursuit of Knowing Oneself

  • Researcher: Shahan Parvez
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Naveed Rehan

Dissertation Title: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Speech Acts in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels

  • Researcher: Khunsha Altaf Jafri
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Nadia Anwar

Dissertation Title: From Femininity to Madness: A Thematic Analysis of Lisa Klein's Ophelia

  • Researcher: Mishal Nazir Chaudary
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Nadia Anwar

Dissertation Title: George Orwell’s 1984 and Contemporary Democracies

  • Researcher:  Aneela Shahzadi
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Naveed Rehan

Dissertation Title: Zygmunt Bauman and the Continuing Legacy of Existentialism: An Interpretation of Cookshaw’s Double Somersaults and Hawkins’ 250 Grams of Poetry

  • Researcher:  Bushra Mumtaz
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Muhammad Furqan Tanvir

Dissertation Title: Fictional Representations of the Indian Subcontinent’s Partition: A Comparative Study of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Gulzar’s Two

  • Researcher:  Jaweria Ahmad
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Muhammad Furqan Tanvir

Dissertation Title: Human Trafficking and Subversion of the American Dream: A Study of Transnational Victimhood in Kim Purcell's Trafficked

  • Researcher:  Muhammad Muneeb Danial
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Muhammad Furqan Tanvir

Dissertation Title: The Crisis of Identity and Retention of Identity in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows

  • Researcher:  Rabia Arshad
  • Research Supervisor: Ms Rabaha Arshad

Dissertation Title: Diaspora and Diasporic Imagination in Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

  • Researcher:  Hina Zahid
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Naila Sahar

Dissertation Title: Examining Counter Discursivity in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

  • Researcher:  Nabeel Ahmed Minhas
  • Research Supervisor: Dr Nadia Anwar

Dissertation Title: Feminist (Post-) Colonial Narratives of Otherness: A Critique of Ikramullah's From Purdah to Parliament and Sultaan's Memoirs of a Rebel Princess

  • Researcher: Ms. Arifa Saboohi
  • Supervisor: Mr. Muhammad FurqanTanvir

Dissertation Title: Ecofeminism in Summer's End: Mapping Change in Turkish Society

  • Researcher: Ms. Mashal Farooqi
  • Supervisor:  Dr Naveed Rehan

Dissertation Title: Challenges of Black American Muslim Women’s Identity: A Critical Reading of Umm Zakiyyah’s Novel Muslim Girl

  • Researcher: Mr. Muhammad Zaid
  • Supervisor: Mr.Muhammad FurqanTanvir

Dissertation Title: A Bolekaja-Womanist Analysis of the Selected Works of Julie Okoh& Stella Oyedepo

  • Researcher: Ms. Nida TanveerShami
  • Supervisor: Dr Nadia Anwar

Dissertation Title: Sara Suleri and the Work of Memoir

  • Researcher: Ms. Samra Hafeez
  • Supervisor: Dr Naveed Rehan

Dissertation Title: A Revaluation of Nigeria’s Colonial Heritage: A Bakhtinian Interpretation of Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief

  • Researcher: Ms.Sehar Iftikhar
  • Supervisor: Mr.Muhammad FurqanTanvir

DissertationTitle: Strife and Sisterhood in the Beloved Trilogy

  • Researcher: Ms.Sidra Moeez
  • Supervisor: Dr Naveed Rehan

DissertationTitle: Transcultural Adaptation of Macbeth as Raees

  • Researcher: Ms.Sundas Shafiq
  • Supervisor: Dr Nadia Anwar

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