Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Professor
Fawzia Afzal-Khan holds a PhD in English Literature from Tufts University and is Full Professor
at Montclair State University, NJ. She is author of several books of scholarly criticism:
Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel : Genre and Ideology in the works of RK
Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie (Penn State Press 1993),
The Preoccupation of Postcolonial Studies (co-edited with Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Duke
University Press, 2000), A Critical Stage: the Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan
(Seagull Press, 2005), and editor of the recent best-selling anthology, Shattering the
Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (Interlink Books 2005). She has published scholarly
articles on Feminist and Postcolonial Theory and Criticism and Performance and Cultural Studies
in NWSA Journal, TDR (The Drama Review), Social Text, Womanist Theory and Research, Wasafiri,
The Journal of South Asian Studies and other journals, and is on the Advisory Board of the
South Asian Review. She has lectured all over the world, and is winner of several prestigious
fellowships, including the W.E.B Dubois Fellowship at Harvard University, a Rotary
Fellowship, an American Institute of Pakistan Studies grant and a Fulbright. She is a
performance artist, working in the classical vocal North Indian tradition, and founding
member of the theatre collective, Faim de Siecle, with whom she recently performed in
the World Premiere of Five Streams at Asia Society, Manhattan. She is completing work on
her memoir, Sahelian: Growing Up With Girlfriends, Pakistani-Style, set in Lahore and
America. A chapter of it was just published in the anthology And The World Changed::
Contemporary Writings by Pakistani Women (ed Muneeza Shamsie, OUP, 2006). Fawzia is also
a published poet, a finalist in the Annual Greenburgh Poetry Competition of 2000. Her
most recent assignment was to set up a Postcolonial studies Graduate Program at
Government College University, Lahore, where she was invited by the Higher Education
Commission of Pakistan in Fall of 2005.
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