Aroosa Kanwal

Aroosa Kanwal is a professor in the Department of English, Quaid-i-Azam University. She holds a PhD in English from Lancaster University, UK. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author of ‘Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics’ (Routledge 2024), ‘Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures’ (Routledge 2024), ‘The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing’ (Routledge, 2019), and ‘Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11’ (Palgrave, 2015). She is the Co-investigator of the UK’s AHRC-funded ‘Muslim Women’s Popular Genre’ project (2021-2024). She has won the UK Alumni Professional Achievement Award in 2018, the Karachi Literature Festival Award for the best non-fiction book of the year in 2015, and QAU’s ‘Best Performance Award’ in 2023.