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Shazia Sadaf received a PhD in English from the University of London, and a master鈥檚 degree 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 human rights literature.

Before emigrating to Canada in 2013, Shazia was a tenured associate professor at Peshawar University in Pakistan. Her personal and professional experience of marginalization as a Muslim woman in a patriarchal country affected by the global war on terror gives her an insight that is invaluable in teaching about human rights and social justice. 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聽and the聽Global聽Imaginary: Democratising聽Human聽Futures. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256427

Book Chapters

Sadaf, Shazia. 2026 (forthcoming). 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. New York: 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. 2026 (forthcoming). 鈥溾�楧esi-Queer鈥� Identity Quest: Heeding Pakistani Immigrant Voices in Canada.鈥� Special issue: Migrant Portrayal: Precarity, Displacement, and Human Rights in South Asia. Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Sadaf, Shazia. 2022. 鈥淏enevolent violence: Bombs, aid, and human rights in Mohammad Hanif鈥檚聽Red Birds.鈥� Special issue: Global Literature and Violence, Postcolonial Text, 17(2-3), 1-17. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2740

Sadaf, Shazia. 2020. 鈥溾�榃e are all migrants through time鈥�: History and Geography in聽Mohsin Hamid鈥檚聽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. 鈥淚 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鈥檚聽To the Lighthouse: A Word about the Title.鈥� Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences,聽18(1).

Sadaf, Shazia. 2009. 鈥淒ual Colonialism in聽A House for Mr. Biswas.鈥澛燡ournal 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鈥檚聽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鈥檚聽To the Lighthouse.鈥澛燡ournal of Humanities & Social Sciences,16(1).

Book Reviews:

Sadaf, Shazia. (forthcoming 2025). Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Literature. Hasnul Insani Djohar. ESC (English Studies in Canada). Columbus: The Ohio State University Press.

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

Sadaf, Shazia. 2023. 鈥淚solated incident.鈥� Mariam Pirbhai. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179474

Encyclopedia Articles

Sadaf, Shazia. 2023. 鈥淯sman T. Malik.鈥� The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume聽10.3.2:聽聽Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture. First published 13 October 2023. https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15061

Sadaf, Shazia. 2021. 鈥淜haled Husseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns.鈥� The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume聽3.2.4:聽聽American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present. 30 July 2021. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23018

Sadaf, Shazia. 2019. 鈥淛amil Ahmed: The Wandering Falcon.鈥� The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume聽10.3.2:聽聽Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture. 07 January 2019. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38846

Courses

HRSJ 1101聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Critical Issues in Social Justice Activism

HRSJ 3302聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Culture, Religion and Gender Rights

HRSJ 5901聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Critical approaches to Human Rights and Social Justice

HRSJ 5306 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Terrorism and Islamophobia

HRSJ 5304聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Narratives of Human Rights