{"id":4838,"date":"2018-06-15T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=4838"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:34:33","slug":"shazia-sadaf","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/people\/shazia-sadaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Shazia Sadaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shazia Sadaf received a PhD in English Literature and Language from the University of London, and an MA in English from King\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Shazia Sadaf is also Associate Editor, <em>Journal of postcolonial Writing<\/em>, Taylor &amp; Francis, UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professional Achievement Award 2021, Carleton University.<\/li>\n<li>Excellence in Teaching Award 2020-2021, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nBook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia, and Aroosa Kanwal. 2023. <em>Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction\u00a0and the\u00a0Global\u00a0Imaginary: Democratising\u00a0Human\u00a0Futures. <\/em>New York: Routledge. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003256427\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003256427<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2026. \u201cOn the Cusp of South Asia: Situating Pakistani Canadian Diaspora Identities.\u201d In Umme Al-Wazedi and Aparajita De (Eds.)<em> Whose South Asia: The Politics of Inclusion in Representations of Belonging and Identity<\/em>. Routledge.<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2021. \u201cHuman Dignity, the War on Terror, and Post 9\/11 Pakistani Literature.\u201d In M. C. Frank and P. K. Malreddy (Eds.)<em> Narratives of the War on Terror: Global Perspectives<\/em>. Routledge.<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2019. \u201cBiographies of Violence and the Violence of Biographies: Writing about Rape in Pakistan.\u201d In P. K. Malreddy and A. S. Purakayastha (Eds.), <em>Violence in South Asia<\/em>: <em>Contemporary Perspectives, <\/em>100-114). Routledge.<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2018. \u201cChapter 12: Divergent Discourses: Human Rights and Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Literature.\u201d In A. Kanwal and S. Aslam (Eds.),<em> Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing <\/em>(pp.138-150). Routledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Peer Reviewed Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2022. \u201cBenevolent violence: Bombs, aid, and human rights in Mohammad Hanif\u2019s\u00a0<em>Red Birds.\u201d<\/em> Special issue: Global Literature and Violence, <em>Postcolonial Text<\/em>, <em>17<\/em>(2-3), 1-17. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcolonial.org\/index.php\/pct\/article\/view\/2740\">https:\/\/www.postcolonial.org\/index.php\/pct\/article\/view\/2740<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2020. \u201c\u2018We are all migrants through time\u2019: History and Geography in\u00a0Mohsin Hamid\u2019s\u00a0<em>Exit West<\/em>.\u201d Special issue: Writing Brexit: Colonial remains.<em> Journal of Postcolonial Writing<\/em>, <em>56<\/em>(5), 636-647. DOI:10.1080\/17449855.2020.1820667<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2018. \u201cHuman dignity, the War on Terror, and post 9\/11 Pakistani literature.\u201d Special Issue. Global Responses to War on Terror. <em>European Journal of English Studies,<\/em> <em>22<\/em>(2), 115-127. DOI: 10.1080\/13825577.2018.1478255<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2017. \u201c<em>I am Malala<\/em>: Human rights, and the politics of production, marketing, and reception of the post 9\/11 memoir.\u201d <em>Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies,<\/em> <em>19<\/em>(6), 855-871. DOI:10.1080\/1369801X.2017.1347053<\/p>\n<p>Saher, Najma, and Shazia Sadaf. 2017. \u201cWe are what we eat in <em>A House for Mr. Biswas<\/em> and <em>The Inheritance of Loss<\/em>.\u201d <em>Journal of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences<\/em>, <em>25<\/em>(1), 73.<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2014. \u201cDaniyal Mueenuddin\u2019s dying men.\u201d Special Issue: Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises. <em>South Asian History and Culture<strong>,<\/strong> 5<\/em>(4), 490-504. DOI: 10.1080\/19472498.2014.936207<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia, &amp; Mujeeb Rahman. 2011. \u201cPostcolonial loss of identity and the food metaphor.\u201d <em>Journal of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences<\/em>, <em>19<\/em>(2), 105-116.<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2008. \u201cColour play in Arundhati Roy\u2019s <em>The God of Small Things<\/em>.\u201d<em> ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature,<\/em> <em>39<\/em>(3), 73-84.<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2010. \u201cWoolf\u2019s\u00a0<em>To the Lighthouse<\/em>: A Word about the Title.\u201d<em> Journal of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences<\/em>,\u00a0<em>18<\/em>(1).<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2009. \u201cDual Colonialism in\u00a0<em>A House for Mr. Biswas<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences<\/em>, <em>17<\/em>(2).<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2009. \u201cChanges in Late Anglo-Indian Phraseology.\u201d<em> Journal of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences<\/em>, <em>17<\/em>(1).<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2008. \u201cTennyson\u2019s\u00a0<em>In Memoriam<\/em>: Balancing spiritual and physical evolution.\u201d<em> Journal of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences<\/em>, <em>16<\/em>(2).<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2008. \u201cThe vocabulary of aesthetics in Virginia Woolf\u2019s\u00a0<em>To the Lighthouse.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<em>Journal of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences,16<\/em>(1).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. (forthcoming 2026). <em>Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Literature<\/em>. Hasnul Insani Djohar. <em>ESC<\/em>: <em>English Studies in Canada<\/em>, 49 (2).<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf Shazia. 2024. \u201c<em>Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere.<\/em>\u201d Kasmani, Omar, ed. <em>Utopian Studies<\/em>. Duke University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2023. \u201c<em>Isolated incident<\/em>.\u201d Mariam Pirbhai.<em> Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17449855.2023.2179474\">10.1080\/17449855.2023.2179474<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Encyclopedia Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2023. \u201cUsman T. Malik.\u201d <em>The<\/em> <em>Literary Encyclopedia. <\/em>Volume\u00a010.3.2:\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture<\/em><em>.<\/em> First published 13 October 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/speople.php?rec=true&amp;UID=15061\">https:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/speople.php?rec=true&amp;UID=15061<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2021. \u201cKhaled Husseini: <em>A Thousand Splendid Suns<\/em>.\u201d <em>The Literary Encyclopedia<\/em>. Volume\u00a03.2.4:\u00a0\u00a0<em>American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary<\/em>, 1945-present. 30 July 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/sworks.php?rec=true&amp;UID=23018\">https:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/sworks.php?rec=true&amp;UID=23018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadaf, Shazia. 2019. \u201cJamil Ahmed: <em>The Wandering Falcon<\/em>.\u201d <em>The<\/em> <em>Literary Encyclopedia<\/em>. Volume\u00a010.3.2:<em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture<\/em><em>.<\/em> 07 January 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/sworks.php?rec=true&amp;UID=38846\">https:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/sworks.php?rec=true&amp;UID=38846<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>HRSJ1101\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critical Issues in Social Justice Activism<\/p>\n<p>HRSJ3302\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Culture, Religion and Gender Rights<\/p>\n<p>HRSJ5901\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critical approaches to Human Rights and Social Justice<\/p>\n<p>HRSJ5306 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Terrorism and Islamophobia<\/p>\n<p>HRSJ5304\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Narratives of Human Rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[7,8],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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