Biography

Dr. Rabia Aamir is an Assistant Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan, a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Intern at the Center of Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a research fellow at CIGA, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Turkiye. She is a former awardee of PhD Research Fellowship at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, USA (2018-19). With a teaching experience of more than twenty years at different levels, she is an HEC Approved Supervisor and recipient of the Best University Teacher Award for the year 2021-22. With a wide range of pedagogic interests, she conducts voiceovers for documentaries, academic discussions, and conferences. She publishes in different genres of poetry and petite poetic memoirs about her times of growing up in Lahore, book chapters on Pakistani Fiction and the changed landscape of Palestine, and articles of seminal importance problematizing the idée reçues in the debates on Kashmir and Palestine. Her research domains include American/Native American literature, Post 9/11 Pakistani Fiction, Middle Eastern and Kashmiri Literature and visual literary narratives, Film Studies, life narratives, and Environmental Ethics. Her recent book Environmental Ethics: Life Narratives from Kashmir & Palestine (2023) is an epistemological theorizing to the debates of environmental humanities and decoloniality.