Sarah Abdullah
Lecturer
Department of English
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Sarah Abdullah is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), where she has taught since 2007. She earned first position in her MA in English Literature and received gold medals from both LCWU and the Parveen Shakir Trust, later completing an MPhil in English Literature and beginning her PhD in 2021. Her research focuses on gender, postcolonial studies, literary history, and cultural production, with publications in The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation (2025), Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Journal of Research in Humanities, Pakistan Horizon, and other refereed journals. She has presented papers at international and national conferences, including at Princeton University, the Royal Asiatic Society London, Habib University, and LUMS, and has co-organized panels on South Asian literary cultures. At LCWU, she has supervised BS and MS research projects, served as Assistant Editor of RJLL, coordinated the MPhil program, and participated in the Board of Studies. She has attended multiple research and writing workshops, including the British Academy Writing Masterclasses (2018–2025) and graduate training at LUMS. Her current doctoral work continues her engagement with gender, culture, and narrative traditions in South Asia. She can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Publications
- “Tahzib-i-Nisvan, Women and the Gendered National Subject” in The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation. 2025
- “Reimagining the Cinematic Gaze: An Analysis of Iranian Mystical Cinema in Majid Majidi’s Baran” , Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2024.
- “A Discourse on Muslim Women’s Rights in 19th century India: Translated Excerpt from Maulvi Sayyid Mumtaz Ali’s Huquq un-Nisvan (1989)” (co-authored) Journal of Research in Humanities, Volume 60, Issue 1, July 2024.
- “White Saviour Complex and (Mis)Portrayal of Blacks in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help” (co-authored) Journal of Research in Humanities, Volume 57 Issue 1, February 2021.
- “Postcolonial Masculinity, Precarious Power and Desire in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North”, RJLL, Volume 4, December 2019 (second author).
- “Looking at the Past: Refiguration of History in Girish Karnad's The Dreams of Tipu Sultan” Journal of Research in Humanities Vol. LIII Jan. 2017.
- “Vernacular Shakespeare in India and Agha Hashar Kashmiri’s Safed Khoon”, RJLL, Volume 2, December 2017. (first author).
- “Sufism, Islam and Globalization” Pakistan Horizon, Volume 71, Jan-April 2018. X category.
Conferences
- Conference on Narratives of Resilience: Exploring Resurgence in Global Literature. April 22-24 ( LCWU)
- Moderated session on “The role of folklore and Mythology in Cultivating Resilience”
- Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility. Online Early Career Conference 4-6 June 2021 (Princeton University)
- Presented paper on Tahzīb-e Niswāñ, Muslim Women and Print Culture in Colonial India (Print unbound: the making/unmaking of newspapers and periodicals, Asia Royal Asiatic Society, London, Jan 9-10, 2020)
- Presented a paper on Muslim women and print culture in colonial India at 13th Humanities & Social Sciences Conference, LUMS (Critical Interventions: Mapping Emerging Scholarship on South Asia, April 10-11, 2019)
- Co-organized a panel on “Revisiting Urdu Literary Cultures in South Asia” at Habib University (Conference on Questioning South Asia Feb 1-2, 2018)
- “Gender, Dastan and Early Urdu Fiction” presented at Habib University (Questioning South Asia Conference Feb 1-2, 2018)
- “Shakespeare Gone Native: Vernacular Shakespeare and its Politics in the Sub-continent” presented at Second IIUI-UNCW Conference on Local Cities, Foreign Capitals: Finding the Local Anchor in the Global Cultures (9-11 October, 2017)
- “Problematizing the Globalization of Sufi Discourse” presented at LUMS (Representing South-Asian Sufism 13-14 April, 2017)
- “Refiguration of History in Girish Karnad’s The Dreams of Tipu Sultan” presented at LUMS (International Conference on South-Asian Literary Traditions 10- 11 April, 2015)