Literature as a Way to Learn the World
In one of his interviews, while speaking on the relevance of postcolonial studies, Dr. Raja said that the postcolonial world can understand their conflicts and issues better by reading and [...]
My Fall 18 Skype Course for Emerson College Students
In the fall semester of 2018, Dr. Zia Ahmed, a dear friend, invited me to co-teach an undergraduate course on postcolonial studies. He teaches at the Government Emerson College, [...]
Rhizomatic Literaties: A Publishing Initiative by Three Pakistani Women
I recently came across this publishing initiative on instagram. Since I found their project so fascinating, I requested the founders for more information so that I could lend them my [...]
Inviting Education-Related Guest Posts
Now that my site has been fully moved to Wordpress, I would like to open the site up for some contributions from my friends and colleagues involved in the [...]
Reflections on Life in Academia
I am a combat veteran who came to academic life after spending most of my youth in the Pakistan army. In the process I also made the transition from [...]
Adding a Glossary of Theoretical terms to Postcolonial Space
In teaching and research, knowing the nuanced meanings and definitions of various theoretical terms is absolutely important. My old site used to have a glossary that I had created [...]
Postcolonial Space is an Open Resource
Even though it is pretty evident from the site description that Postcolonial Space is an open resource for teachers, students, and scholars, I still get queries about the use [...]
Adding a Digital Library to my Website
As you might be aware, I just recently moved my website from its earlier CMS hosting to the WordPress. While this has been a smooth move, we did, however, [...]
The Learning Paradigm
A few years ago, some of my senior colleagues at Kent State University decided to start a pedagogy discussion group. Almost all of us in the group were heavily invested [...]
How to Write and Publish Academic Articles in the Humanities (Part 1-4)
Introduction I wrote this brief guide for my advance undergraduate and graduate students. The purpose was not to teach them the basic mechanics of essay writing, for that they [...]