Sadia Abdul Qayyum

Lecturer
MA English Literature and Modernity
London Metropolitan University, UK

Biography

Sadia Abdul Qayyum is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Department of English at GIFT University Gujranwala. She has been at GIFT University since 2007; she was previously a Teacher of English and an Academic Coordinator at Bloomfield School System Gujrat. She had also rendered her services as tremendously successful a teacher at Beacon House School System, Ghazali Education System and Jinnah Public School Gujrat. 

Having born and bred in Kuwait and educated in UK, Kuwait and Pakistan, she has a vast exposure of East and West and knows multiple languages including Arabic, English and Urdu. Her area of research is Modernity. She has supervised a number of MPhil theses. Her contributions in the field of English Literature are remarkable.

Teaching Interests

  • Literature and Modernity
  • Modern Drama
  • 20th Century Novel
  • Rise of the Novel(18th to 19th Century)
  • Literary Forms and Movements
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Literary Theory and Practice
  • Pakistani Literature in English

Research Interests

  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Feminism