Department of English

Rabia Ashraf

Rabia Ashraf
Rabia Ashraf
Lecturer (on study leave)
Department of English, LCWU
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Experience

  • Lecturer English, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, 2017 till date.
  • Lecturer English, COMSATS University, Lahore  2014 till 2017  (3 years)

Honors & Awards

  • Roll of Honor, Best English Debater, 2012, Lahore College for Women University. 
  • Paper Presentation at International Conference on the topic “Aspects of My Life That I am trying to Understand Better”: Reinterpreting the Misinterpreted Mother Figure in Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin and The Grass Is Singing' at Flora Grand Hotel,  Global Conference on Psychology and Language Research held from 11th-12th October 2017, UAE (funded by COMSATS University, Lahore) 
  • Conducted 2 Day Workshop on Creative Thinking & Writing to In Service Teachers of Aligarh Public School Lahore, at COMSATS, Lahore from 11th-12th April 2017.
  • Member English Debating Society Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, 2017
  • Script Writer/ Director, play Viyah Da Rola, a Punjabi Adaptation of Lorca’s play, Blood Wedding at LCWU, 2018
  • Member Sirajud-din Dramatics Society Lahore College for Women University,  2017
  • Guest Speaker on ‘Women Empowerment and help mass overcome the stereotypes they are facing in their society’ organized by WIE-IEEE CIIT Lahore
  • Convener 1st, 2nd and 3rd Editions of COMSATS International Model United Nations Conference (CIMUN) for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017.
  • Member University Proctorial Board at COMSATS Lahore Campus.
  • Member Students’ Week Committee at COMSATS Lahore.
  • Content/script writer for speeches- Pak China Business Forum & Psychology Conference.
  • Organized All Pakistan and Inter Departmental Declamation Contests at COMSATS as faculty advisor. 
  • Organized and moderated Fulbright Scholarship awareness session at COMSATS, 2015
  • Organized and moderated MS English Inaugural at COMSATS 2015.
  • Moderated COMSATS All Pakistan English Language and Literature Quiz Competition on April 20- 2015.
  • Faculty Adviser COMSATS Lahore Debating Society (CLDS).
  • Mentoring and coaching of students and debaters for participation in various national and international level declamation contests at COMSATS, Lahore
  • Member Anchoring and Citation Committee for Convocation at COMSATS Lahore
  • Member Citation, Script Writers and Master of Ceremony, Pak-China Business Forum, COMSATS, Lahore

Thesis Supervision

  • Alina Tariq (BS English Literature) 2019:Tracing Goth Element in ‘Rumi’s Daughter
  • Afifa Ahmad (BS English Literature ) 2019:Seasonal Imagery of Spring and Autumn in Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
  • Laiba Ali (BS English Literature) 2019:Feminist Study of Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
  • Abeera Ahmad(BS English Literature)2018:Religion and Morality in Buddha of Suburbia Haneif Kureishi
  • Amna Kazmi (BS English Literature) 2018:Mothering and Identity in Toni Morrison’s Jazz

Service Activities

  • Member English Debating Society, LCWU
  • Member Dramatic Society, LCWU
  • Member Literary Society, LCWU
  • Judged English Declamation Contest, Aligarh Public School on 17th October 2018.
  • Judged English Presentations Competition held at Superior University on 31st January 2018.
  • English copy editor/ proofreader, Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Azerbaijan, 2017 

Courses/ Workshops Attended:

  • Attended 2 Day Course on ‘Testing and Assessment’, from 28th-29th March, 2019, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore.  
  • Attended 2 Day course on ‘Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals’ from 19th- 20th July 2018 at Lahore College for Women University, Lahore. 
  • Attended 5 Day Training of Facilitators (ToF), Active Citizenship, organized by British Council at Lahore College for Women University, 29th July0 2nd August 2019.
  • Completed 3 Day Training on ‘Andragogical/ Pedagogical Skills in Teaching’ from 22-24th January 2018 by Staff Development Academy, Punjab Higher Education Commission.

Research Interest

Research interests focus in particular on British fiction (Victorian to Post Modern), classical (Greek) and modern drama, Translation Studies (South Asian, Chinese and German literature), Existentialist and Feminist Studies. Moreover research interests in particular center around gender roles, identity, mother-daughter dyad, women autobiography, psychotherapeutic writing.

Publications

1.            Reconnaissance of Cognitive Maps in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love- Authenticating Life Happily Ever After. Published in  Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Azerbaijan, Volume 22, No 2, 2019, 71-82- ISI Indexed. 

2.            Connotative Confluence: Imagery and its functions in Shakespeare’s King Lear.  Published in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Azerbaijan, Volume 21, No 3, 2018, 120-135, Khazar University Press- ISI Indexed 

3.            “…Aspects of My Life That I am trying to Understand Better”: Reinterpreting the Misinterpreted Mother in Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin and The Grass Is Singing published in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 20 № 4 2017, 56-70, Khazar University Press- ISI Indexed 

4.            Tapping into the Tradition: Tracing the Greco Roman Allusions and Medieval Milieu in ‘the Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus’, Shazia Aziz, Rabia Ashraf and Dr. Mirza Muhammad Zubair Baig (2017), Gomal University Journal of Research, pp: 128-139, Vol: 32, Issue: Special Issue 2, Standard: 1019-8180   HEC Y Category

5.            Lībās (Garment) Metaphor in Holy Qur'ān: A Conceptual Metaphorical Analysis, published in Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research, Vol 18, Issue 1, 2017, HEC Y Category

6.            Psychodynamics of Mother Daughter Relationship: Degrees of Deprivation, Oppression and Dispossession in Doris Lessing’s Fiction published in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Volume 20, Number 1, 2017, ISI Indexed

7.            Recurrence of Romantic Aesthetics in Classicist Writings: A Survey of British Classical Poetry, published in, Elixir Literature. 96. July 2016. Ulrich Indexed. 

8.            History: Re-written, Revised or Revisited in Gunter Grass’ Crabwalk published in European Academic Research Journal. Vol. 3:9 December 2015.

9.            An Optimistic Evolution of Existence in Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah. Published in Language in India. Vol. 15:6 June 2015.

Paper Presentations at International Conference:

1: Aspects of My Life That I am trying to Understand Better”: Reinterpreting the Misinterpreted Mother Figure in Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin and The Grass Is Singing' at Flora Grand Hotel,  Global Conference on Psychology and Language Research held from 11th-12th October 2017, UAE (funded by COMSATS University, Lahore)

 Paper Presentations at National Conferences:

2: Dynamics of Gender, Power and Morality in Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl’, presented in a conference on Interactions: Literature, Culture and Globalization, Kinnaird College, Lahore, 6th December 2018

3: Mothering and Ideology of Peace: Analyzing Ada Aharoni’s “Peace Is a Woman and a Mother”, First International Conference on Peace, Conflict and Violence, 29th-30th November, 2017, COMSATS, Lahore, Pakistan

4:  ‘Reconnaissance of Cognitive Maps in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love- Authenticating Life Happily Ever After’, oral presentation in International Conference of Linguistics Association of Pakistan ICLAP  held on 7-9 October 2015 at Kinnaird College for Women Lahore, Pakistan.

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