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Shazia Sadaf received a PhD in English Literature and Language from the University of London, and an MA in English from King鈥檚 College London, United Kingdom. She earned a second doctorate in Postcolonial Studies at Western University in Canada, with a primary research interest in the field of post 9/11 human rights literature.

Her research expertise lies in analysing human rights as an evolving linguistic and literary discourse, extending the field beyond traditional social science frameworks. Her work offers an expanded understanding of the various ways in which literature and other narrative modes (media, memoir, documentary, film, art, music) engage with the past and current political landscapes around issues of human rights and social justice, and the role of these narratives in representation, spectatorship, and power.

Shazia Sadaf is also Associate Editor, Journal of postcolonial Writing, Taylor & Francis, UK.

Professional Awards

• Professional Achievement Award 2021, 杏吧原创 University.
• Excellence in Teaching Award 2020-2021, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 杏吧原创 University.

Book

Sadaf, Shazia, and Aroosa Kanwal. 2023. Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction听and the听Global听Imaginary: Democratising听Human听Futures. New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Sadaf, Shazia. 2026. 鈥淥n the Cusp of South Asia: Situating Pakistani Canadian Diaspora Identities.鈥� In Umme Al-Wazedi and Aparajita De (Eds.) Whose South Asia: The Politics of Inclusion in Representations of Belonging and Identity. Routledge.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2021. 鈥淗uman Dignity, the War on Terror, and Post 9/11 Pakistani Literature.鈥� In M. C. Frank and P. K. Malreddy (Eds.) Narratives of the War on Terror: Global Perspectives. Routledge.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2019. 鈥淏iographies of Violence and the Violence of Biographies: Writing about Rape in Pakistan.鈥� In P. K. Malreddy and A. S. Purakayastha (Eds.), Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives, 100-114). Routledge.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2018. 鈥淐hapter 12: Divergent Discourses: Human Rights and Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature.鈥� In A. Kanwal and S. Aslam (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing (pp.138-150). Routledge.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Sadaf, Shazia. 2022. 鈥淏enevolent violence: Bombs, aid, and human rights in Mohammad Hanif鈥檚听Red Birds.鈥� Special issue: Global Literature and Violence, Postcolonial Text, 17(2-3), 1-17.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2020. 鈥溾�榃e are all migrants through time鈥�: History and Geography in听Mohsin Hamid鈥檚听Exit West.鈥� Special issue: Writing Brexit: Colonial remains. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 56(5), 636-647. DOI:10.1080/17449855.2020.1820667

Sadaf, Shazia. 2018. 鈥淗uman dignity, the War on Terror, and post 9/11 Pakistani literature.鈥� Special Issue. Global Responses to War on Terror. European Journal of English Studies, 22(2), 115-127. DOI: 10.1080/13825577.2018.1478255

Sadaf, Shazia. 2017. 鈥�I am Malala: Human rights, and the politics of production, marketing, and reception of the post 9/11 memoir.鈥� Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 19(6), 855-871. DOI:10.1080/1369801X.2017.1347053

Saher, Najma, and Shazia Sadaf. 2017. 鈥淲e are what we eat in A House for Mr. Biswas and The Inheritance of Loss.鈥� Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 25(1), 73.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2014. 鈥淒aniyal Mueenuddin鈥檚 dying men.鈥� Special Issue: Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises. South Asian History and Culture, 5(4), 490-504. DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2014.936207

Sadaf, Shazia, & Mujeeb Rahman. 2011. 鈥淧ostcolonial loss of identity and the food metaphor.鈥� Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 19(2), 105-116.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2008. 鈥淐olour play in Arundhati Roy鈥檚 The God of Small Things.鈥� ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 39(3), 73-84.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2010. 鈥淲oolf鈥檚听To the Lighthouse: A Word about the Title.鈥� Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences,听18(1).

Sadaf, Shazia. 2009. 鈥淒ual Colonialism in听A House for Mr. Biswas.鈥澨�Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 17(2).

Sadaf, Shazia. 2009. 鈥淐hanges in Late Anglo-Indian Phraseology.鈥� Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 17(1).

Sadaf, Shazia. 2008. 鈥淭ennyson鈥檚听In Memoriam: Balancing spiritual and physical evolution.鈥� Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 16(2).

Sadaf, Shazia. 2008. 鈥淭he vocabulary of aesthetics in Virginia Woolf鈥檚听To the Lighthouse.鈥�听Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences,16(1).

Book Reviews:

Sadaf, Shazia. (forthcoming 2026). Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Literature. Hasnul Insani Djohar. ESC: English Studies in Canada, 49 (2).

Sadaf Shazia. 2024. 鈥�Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere.鈥� Kasmani, Omar, ed. Utopian Studies. Duke University Press.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2023. 鈥�Isolated incident.鈥� Mariam Pirbhai. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI:

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Encyclopedia Articles

Sadaf, Shazia. 2023. 鈥淯sman T. Malik.鈥� The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume听10.3.2:听听Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture. First published 13 October 2023.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2021. 鈥淜haled Husseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns.鈥� The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume听3.2.4:听听American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present. 30 July 2021.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2019. 鈥淛amil Ahmed: The Wandering Falcon.鈥� The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume听10.3.2:听听Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture. 07 January 2019.

Courses

HRSJ1101听听听听听听听听听听听 Critical Issues in Social Justice Activism

HRSJ3302听听听听听听听听听听听 Culture, Religion and Gender Rights

HRSJ5901听听听听听听听听听听听 Critical approaches to Human Rights and Social Justice

HRSJ5306 听听听听听听听听听听 Terrorism and Islamophobia

HRSJ5304听听听听听听听听听听听 Narratives of Human Rights