Dr. S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Professor of Sociolinguistics, retired as Dean, Faculty of Arts, AMU and Chairman, Department of Linguistics, AMU. Currently he is Chair Professor, Maulana Azad in the Department of English, School of Languages, Linguistics and Indology, Maulana azad National Urdu University,  Gachbowli, 

 

He was EWC Fulbright Scholar in East West Center, Hawaii, U.S.A.; Senior Fellow, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), (MHRD), Mysore; Visiting Professor, Centre for Linguistics, JNU; Visiting Scholar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Senior Visiting Scholar. Orebro University, Sweden, and a recipient of "President's Inspired Teachers for 2015", which is the highest civilian recognition for the University-level teachers for the Central Universities in the Republic of India. He has supervised 22 Ph.D., 2 M.Phil., examined several Ph.D. theses submitted in several Universities in Europe, South East Asia and reputed Universities, IITs and Private Universities in India and completed six (6) Research Projects sponsored by DST, CIIL, UGC, NCPUL, ICSSR and DoE sponsored TDIL (Technology Development of Indian Languages).

Presented papers and Participated in several National and International Seminars, Conferences, Symposiums & Workshops within India, Europe, America, UK, China, etc. China, etc. Has been an Anonymous Reviewer of Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behavior, Culture (Mouton de Gruyter), EPW (Economic and Political Weekly); Oxford University Press to review the manuscripts, books as well as Journals; South Asian Diaspora (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group); Book proposals submitted to: Routledge and Taylor & Francis Group; Springer, The Netherlands; SAGE Open.

Visiting Professor, Centre for Linguistics, SLL&CS, JNU, New Delhi; Visiting Scholar, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Invited Speaker in the 69^th Session of the Indian History Congress Panel on Language Change in Indian History held in Kannur (December 2008). (The other invited speakers were Professor Emeritus Romila Thapar and Professor Emeritus Irfan Habib); Invited Panelist on National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities organized by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore; Invited Resource Person in a Workshop on Multilingual Education for Tribal Groups in Jharkhand organized by CIIL, Mysore in collaboration with National Council for Educational Research and Training and UNESCO; Invited Contributor in the UNESCO Volume: History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Towards Contemporary Civilizations (Mid-nineteenth century to the present) and the UNESCO Resource Book: Multilingualism and Education. published by UNESCO; Invited as Subject Expert by the Corporate R&D Division of Lernout and Hauspie for a discussion on Speech User Interface (SUI) with particular reference to Urdu Speech to Text and Urdu Corpus in Ieper, Belgium.  

He was Editor-in-Chief: Indian Linguistics (Volumes 73-75, 2012-2014 UGC Care listed), Journal of English in Arabia Felix, Online published by Arabia Felix Academy (ARAFA), Saudi Arabia, Aligarh Journal of Linguistics (UGC Care listed); Associate Editor Pearson CIIL Urdu English Dictionary; Guest Editor: Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, New Delhi, Vol.17, Nos.1-2,1990 (Special Issue: Language Standardization) and Language Forum, New Delhi, Vol.16. Nos.1-2, 1990 (Special Issue: Structuralism and Post Structuralism);

Member Advisory Board of ‘dialog’, bi-annual peer-reviewed research journal, Dept of English & Cultural Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh (UGC Care listed); LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research, international peer-reviewed journal published by TALENTA Publisher, Universitas Sumatera Utara and managed by English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sumatera Utara.  https://talenta.usu.ac.id/lingpoet; IJL (Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics) (Kashmir University) and International Journal of Innovations in Liberal Arts (IJILA) (Amity University, Gurgaon) 

Has been Visitor’s Nominee appointed by the President of India in the Central Universities for the recruitment of Professors/Associate Professors /Assistant Professors.; Keynote Speaker, Invited Speaker, Main Speaker, Plenary Speaker, Panelist, Discussant, etc. in National and International Seminars/Conferences/Symposiums and Webinars organized by several reputed IITs, Central, State, Private Universities, and national and international NGOs; International Key Speaker, delivered Foundational Lecture, Centenary Celebration Lecture and gave Invited Talks/Webtalks in Seminars organized by universities in Europe, South Asia and South East Asia.

Member of the several committees: UPSC Selection Committee; Member, Grants-in-Aid Committee (EFLU, Hyderabad); Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (MoE); Committee for Reviewing Language Policy in India, (CIIL); Editorial Support Group (ESG), National Translation Mission (CIIL); Principles for the Evolution of Terminology, Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (MoE); ICSSR’s Advisory Committee, International Collaboration Program; Sahitya Akademi’s Advisory Board for Urdu. External Member, BOS of several Central, State and reputed Private universities.; External Subject Expert, Selection Committees of IITs, Central and State Universities; Foreign Expert for the appointment of Professor/Associate Professor in English Linguistics in the Universities in Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Islamabad, Bangladesh and Republic of Yemen; Expert, Selection of Fellows of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and Expert Committee in the subject ‘Linguistics’ by the UGC.

Organized several Extension Lectures, Talk, International and National Seminars/Conferences/ Symposiums/Workshops in different capacities: as Chair-Professor, Maulana Azad at MANUU, Hyderabad and as Former Faculty of the Department of Linguistics, AMU, Aligarh. Also contributed significantly while serving in different administrative positions, namely Dean, Faculty of Arts, AMU; Chairman, Department of Linguistics, AMU; Chairman, Innovation Council and University Incubation Centre, AMU; Coordinator, University Extension Lectures; Director, Centre for Distance Education: Member-in-Charge, University Press, Director, Coaching & Guidance Centre, etc.

He has invited Chapter contribution in: Cambridge University Press; Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands; Palgrave Macmillan; World of Linguistics Series, De Gruyter Mouton; Springer International; Orient BlackSwan; Aakar Books; Springer Nature (Singapore); Multilingual Matters; New York: Oxford University Press; UK: Cambridge Scholars Publication; Frankfurt: Peter Lang; Sahitya Akademi; Heidelberg Series in South Asian and Comparative Studies; University of Heidelberg; Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; Delhi: Manak Publications; Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.

He has published Articles in: Indian Linguistics (Pune), Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (New Delhi), International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics (Trivandrum), South Asian Language Review (New Delhi), English Studies in India: A Journal of Literature and Language (Kashmir), Summerhill IIAS Review (Shimla), Aligarh Journal of English Studies, Aligarh Journal of Linguistics, Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), South Asian Language Year Book (Hague), Language Sciences (Oxford), Lincolm (Science Direct ELSEVIER), Health Communication (Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group), East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, etc.

As a Subject Expert – International Invite To Vocabulary Edition in Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century (Edited by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza) London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic.