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𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 (JDMC, DU)

presents
𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨
3rd Lecture
on

“Pakistani English Literature: Identity and Belonging“

Speaker: MUNEEZA SHAMSIE
Discussant: SUMAN GUPTA
Chair: MALASHRI LAL

on

April 03, 2021, 5:30 pm onwards
Login time: 5:15 pm

BIO NOTE of the Speaker:
Muneeza Shamsie is a Pakistani writer, critic, literary journalist, bibliographer and editor. She is the author of a literary history Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English (Oxford University Press, 2017) and has edited three anthologies of Pakistani English literature including And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (Women Unlimited 2005, Feminist Press CUNY 2008) which received 2009 IPPY (Gold) and 2008 Foreword INDIE (Bronze) Awards in the United States for its American edition. Shamsie is a regular contributor to the Dawn newspaper and the weekly Newsweek Pakistan.

Shamsie is an Area Editor of the online Literary Encyclopedia, the Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, serves on the International Advisory Board of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and has guest edited its Special Issues, Volume 47 Issue 2. 2011 Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in Pakistan and Volume 52 Issue 2, 2016 al Andalus. She is a member of the Advisory Committee DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and served as its 2013 jury member. From 2009-2011, she was the Regional Chair (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her memoir essays have appeared in several publications including 50 Shades of Feminism edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach (Virago 2013) Moving Worlds 13.2 Postcolonial South Asian Cities and The Critical Muslim 4.3.

Streamed live on the IACLALS Facebook page, and the complete video can be accessed here: 
https://fb.watch/62XMYEr2wq/