Dr. Sadia Zulfiqar
Assistant Professor
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Sadia Zulfiqar is an Assistant Professor of English in the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities in LUMS. Sadia completed her MLitt (Modern & Postmodern Literature) and PhD (English Literature) from the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender (2016). She co-edited a collection of essays Islam and the West: A Love Story? (2015) with Sumita Mukherjee. Her key areas of interest include African women novelist; representations of Islam in fiction; Harem literature; Institution of polygamy in Africa; and Afro-American literature.
Below is the list of (selected) presentations of her research papers at International conferences.
- 2018: ‘Sisteracrhy’ in Sisterhood: African Women Writers’ Difficult Relationship with Feminism’, African Literature Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., 23rd May-26thMay, 2018
- 2017: ‘Women and Biafra’, Legacies of Biafra Conference, SOAS, University of London, 21st -22 nd April, 2017.
- 2014: ‘I’m not One of Them But I’m Not One of You’: Colonial Education and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Women’, ASAUK Biennial Conference, University of Sussex, 9th-11th September 2014.
- 2013: ‘‘Ain’t I a Woman?’: Feminism and African Women Writers’, FWSA Biennial Conference: The Lady Doth Protest: Mapping Feminist Movements, Moments and Mobilisations, University of Nottingham, 21st-23rd June 2013.
- 2012: ‘‘Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?’: Representations of Islam in Leila Aboulela’s Work’, Islam and the West: A Love Story?, University of Glasgow, 24th November 2012.
- 2012: ‘‘The Past is Only Yesterday’: Postcolonial Trauma in Nigerian Fiction’, Postcolonial Trauma Conference, Nottingham Trent University, 13th -14th September 2012.
- 2012: ‘‘Remember to Forget’: Nigerian Civil War and a Legacy of Frustration’, ASAUK Biennial Conference 2012, University of Leeds, 6th -8th September 2012.
- 2012: ‘Exhuming the Ghost of a Troubled Present: Memory and Reconciliation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun’, Haunting Memories – Unsettled pasts and disputed spaces, University of Stirling, 18th May 2012.
- 2012: Performance of text recorded for the exhibition: Hutchinson S, Kennedy A & Mcstravick C. ‘(SAC) Ongoing Bodies: Le Syndrome de Paris Suite’. Multimedia installation, 2 – 18 February 2012, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.