DEPARTMENT.FACULTY
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- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION
Ph.D.
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION
Professor
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA
Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS
Kolkata, WB, India
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE
9045160189
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL
amrasheed@myamu.ac.in
Aysha Munira Rasheed (PhD) has been teaching Graduate and Post Graduate Courses in English and ELT since November 2000 in the Department of English, AMU. She has also been guiding PhD theses and MA level dissertations. Her research specialties include Islamicate Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. She has presented research papers and delivered invited plenary talks in several national and international seminars and conferences on related topics in India, USA, UK and Italy. She is associated with some international journals as editor and reviewer. Her essays and reviews have appeared in national and international journals of repute and also as chapters in books. She is associated with the government of India enterprise, e-pathshala as a module writer. One of her important publications is "Palestinian Anti-colonialism and Literature? (A 5000 words article) in The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, 2016 published by Wiley-Blackwell. A recent publication of hers is contribution of a research article and translations titled "Poetic Resonance of the Message of Sir Syed and the Aligarh Movement: Translating Syed ki Lauh-e-Turbat and Talba-e-Aligarh ke Naam by Iqbal, and Tarana-e-Aligarh by Majaz" in Oxford of the East: Aligarh Muslim University (1920-2020) Centenary Commemorative Volume, 2020.
She is also associated with the Centre of Continuing and Adult Education and Extension, AMU since January 2018 in the capacity of deputy director.