Tasmiyah Ahmad (She/Her)

Tasmiyah Ahmad is a first year UKRI AHRC SWWDTP Doctoral Researcher in the Department of English and Creative Writing, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter, with a secondary affiliation at the University of Bristol.

Her research centres on South Asian literature, focusing on the works of Indian Muslim women writers such as Nazar Sajjad Hyder, Wajida Tabassum, and Mehrunnisa Parvez. Drawing on frameworks from postcolonial theories, cosmopolitanism, Islamic feminism, orientalism, subaltern identities, and intersecting feminisms, she explores how these authors articulate gender, religion, identity, and agency in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Supervised by Professor Amina Yaqin (primary, Exeter) and Dr Tara K Puri (secondary, Bristol), Tasmiyah’s project seeks to recover marginalised voices and interrogate dominant narratives in literary and cultural studies.