Ms. Raniya Hosain
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences
I completed my PhD on the literature of Partition in Pakistan, India and Palestine from the University of Cambridge in 2025. Prior to that, I completed a Masters in Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory from King’s College London in 2021.
Research Interests
Postcolonial Literature, the literature of Partition, resistance poetry, literary practices of archiving affect, the role of literature in consolidating or destabilizing processes of nation-building.
Research Publications
Wasafari Magazine, Review of Bothayna Al-Essa’s Guardian of Surfaces.
Conference
- ‘Intimate Violence: Partition in the novels of Kamila Shamsie and Attia Hosain’ , White Rose South Asia Conference
- ‘Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators: The Partition of India’, Cambridge Complicity Studies
Any other achievements / recognitions:
Dawn News, To Be A Woman In Pakistan (Winner of the 2020 Zeenat Haroon Rashid Prize) Lakeer Magazine, Two Poems