Professor Amina Yaqin

Professor of World and Postcolonial Literatures

Overview

My research is interdisciplinary and engages with contemporary contexts of Muslim life as well as the politics of culture in Pakistan where I grew up. I began my career at SOAS in 2000 and joined Exeter in 2021. My publications have shaped critical debate across five overlapping fields, gender, questions of agency for women across social divides, postcolonial theory, Muslim Studies, Urdu literary culture. I have taught across Area Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Translation Studies and Gender Studies. My monograph Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu writing (2022) plots a genealogy of gender in Urdu literary culture and the legacy of Urdu feminist poets in the twentieth century. Another major publication Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11 (co-authored with Peter Morey) (2011) has been a field defining interdisciplinary study that explores the conceptual idea of framing and representation through the racial stereotyping and self-stereotyping of Muslims in media narratives in North America and the UK. I have been Co-I (with Peter Morey) on two funded research projects Framing Muslims (AHRC international Research Network) and Muslims Trust and Cultural Dialogue (RCUK). Our research outputs have included co-edited books including Contesting Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim Prejudice in Media, Culture and Politics (2019), journal special issues and peer reviewed journal articles. I have published widely and contributed to policy briefings, knowledge transfer activities, research consultancies and briefings. My commentary and interviews have been aired by the BBC, SkyNews, EuroNews, TRT World, Indus News and Pakistan Television Network. I have written for The National UAE, The Times Higher Education UK, the British Film Institute and The Conversation. I am a co-founding co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Pakistan Studies published by Cambridge University Press and co-founding editor of Multicultural Textualities published by Manchester University Press. I have served on the AHRC Peer Review College and am a reviewer for multiple outlets. At SOAS, I have led the Centre for Pakistan, the Centre for Gender Studies and the Centre for English Studies, and the Decolonising Working Group. At Exeter I have led the College of Humanities Anti-Racism coordinator and am currently the Dept EDI lead. I welcome enquiries from research students with interests in gender, postcolonial, world and comparative theories and literatures and those interested in working across disciplines.

Publications

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2023

Shamsie K, Yaqin A, Mohsin M, Mukherjee A, Hasin S. (2023) Remembering Sara Suleri, Wasafiri, volume 38, no. 1, pages 7-12, DOI:10.1080/02690055.2023.2133837.
Yaqin A. (2023) Imagining Kashmir: Emplotment and colonialism Imagining Kashmir: Emplotment and colonialism , by Patrick Colm Hogan, Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2016, 294 pp., $60.00 (hardback and e-book), ISBN: 978-0803288591, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, volume 59, no. 4, pages 568-569, DOI:10.1080/17449855.2023.2171539. [PDF]

2022

Yaqin A, Khan N. (2022) Partition and its echoes in Karachi: The political agencies of Fahmida Riaz and Perween Rahman, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, volume 57, no. 3, pages 544-561, DOI:10.1177/00219894221115910.

2021

Yaqin A. (2021) Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing, Anthem Studies in South Asian.
Yaqin A. (2021) Necropolitical Trauma in Kamila Shamsie’s Fiction, The Muslim World, volume 111, no. 2, pages 234-249, DOI:10.1111/muwo.12383. [PDF]

2018

. (2018) Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism, Springer International Publishing, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-71309-0. [PDF]

2016

Yaqin A. (2016) La convivencia,la mezquitaand al-Andalus: An Iqbalian vision, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, volume 52, no. 2, pages 136-152, DOI:10.1080/17449855.2016.1164972. [PDF]
Morey P, Yaqin A, Forte A. (2016) Contesting Islamophobia, I.B. Tauris, DOI:10.5040/9781788316125. [PDF]

2015

Yaqin A. (2015) Nadeem Aslam in Conversation, Wasafiri, volume 30, no. 3, pages 39-44, DOI:10.1080/02690055.2015.1044785.
Yaqin A. (2015) Islamic Barbie: The Politics of Gender and Performativity, Fashion Theory, volume 11, no. 2-3, pages 173-188, DOI:10.2752/136270407x202736. [PDF]

2013

Yaqin A. (2013) Autobiography and Muslim Women’s Lives, Journal of Women's History, volume 25, no. 2, pages 171-184, DOI:10.1353/jowh.2013.0020. [PDF]

2012

Ahmed R, Morey P, Yaqin A. (2012) Introduction, DOI:10.4324/9780203129623-5.
Yaqin A. (2012) Muslims as Multicultural Misfits in Nadeem Aslam’s: Maps for Lost Lovers, Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing, 101-116, DOI:10.4324/9780203129623-13.
Yaqin A. (2012) Muslims as multicultural misfits in Nadeem Aslam’s: Maps for Lost Lovers, Culture Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing, 101-116, DOI:10.4324/9780203129623.
Ahmed R, Morey P, Yaqin A. (2012) Introduction, DOI:10.4324/9780203129623.
Yaqin A, Barta P, Evaristo B, Ong JM, Richards M, Whittle MJ, Beckett C, Mateer J, Rohatgi R, Ritsema NM. (2012) Reviews, Wasafiri, volume 27, no. 1, pages 75-94, DOI:10.1080/02690055.2012.636975. [PDF]

2011

Yaqin A. (2011) Variants of Cultural Nationalism in Pakistan: A Reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi, and Fahmida Riaz1, Shared Idioms Sacred Symbols and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia, 115-139, DOI:10.4324/9780203885369.
Morey P, Yaqin A. (2011) Framing Muslims Stereotyping and Representation After 9/11, Harvard University Press.

2010

Yaqin A. (2010) INSIDE THE HAREM, OUTSIDE THE NATION, Interventions, volume 12, no. 2, pages 226-238, DOI:10.1080/1369801x.2010.489697. [PDF]
Morey P, Yaqin A. (2010) MUSLIMS IN THE FRAME, Interventions, volume 12, no. 2, pages 145-156, DOI:10.1080/1369801x.2010.489687. [PDF]

2009

Yaqin A. (2009) Variants of Cultural Nationalism in Pakistan: A Reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi, and Fahmida Riaz¹, Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia, 115-139, DOI:10.4324/9780203885369-11.

2008

Yaqin A. (2008) Mohsin Hamid in Conversation, WASAFIRI, volume 23, no. 2, pages 44-49, DOI:10.1080/02690050801954344. [PDF]

2007

Yaqin A. (2007) Truth, Fiction and Autobiography in the Modern Urdu Narrative Tradition, Comparative Critical Studies, volume 4, no. 3, pages 379-402, DOI:10.3366/E1744185408000086.
Yaqin A. (2007) Family and gender in Rushdie’s writing, The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie, 61-74, DOI:10.1017/CCOL0521847192.005.

2005

Yaqin A. (2005) The Communalization and Disintegration of Urdu in Anita Desai's In Custody, Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism, Brill, 89-113, DOI:10.1163/9789401202596_008.

External impact and engagement

Media

My commentary and interviews have been broadcast and published by the BBC, SkyNews, EuroNews, TRT World, Indus News, The Guardian, The National UAE, Daily Pioneer India, The Christian Science Monitor, Eastern Eye, Redaction Politics, Pakistan Television, Islam channel, Naya Daur TV, Indus News.

Teaching

Modules taught

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