Faculty

Shabeeh Rahat

Assistant Professor
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0801-0663

Shabeeh Rahat is a researcher-teacher-learner. She has a doctorate in English Literature and specializes in Postcolonial Studies with reference to India. Her research interests lie in studying disadvantaged groups of South Asia through literatures across English, Hindi and Urdu. She published a poetry collection in Hindi as a 13 year old, and later published a poem in English in an international anthology. She also translates from-and-into Hindi-Urdu-English. Her translation pieces of Premchand’s nonfiction prose have been published. Her academic work is published as book chapters, journal articles and conference proceedings, and regularly presented at conferences and seminars. Two of her book chapters are in the pipeline for international edited volumes. She received the Professional Development Grant by the Modern Language Association (MLA) in 2023. She has organized academic writing workshops at her alma mater, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She is a member of reputed organizations like South Asian Literary Association, Comparative Literature Association of India, TRACTS Network: Traces as a Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology, & Social Justice (COST 20134) and Research Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Transhistorical, Deliberative Democracy (CA22149 CHANGECODE).

Education

Degree Institution Field Year of Completion
Ph. D. Jamia Millia Islamia English Literature 2023

Presented Papers and Invited Lectures in Areas of Expertise

Seminars/Conferences:

  1. Discoursing the Idea of India: A Study of Postcolonial Texts, Contexts and  Theoretical Reading Paradigms’: At the Annual Research Confluence on  ‘Decolonizing Methodologies’, 28 March 2022, Department of Sociology, Jamia  Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
  2. ‘Archiving Invisibility: Women in select Literary Imaginaries of the Indian  Freedom Struggle’: At the National Seminar ‘Women in India’s Freedom  Movement: Exploring their Visibility and Invisibility’, 9-10 August 2023, Centre  for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Jamia Millia Islamia, New  Delhi, India
  3. ‘Writing Aspiration, Writing vulnerability: Interrogating Women Writers of the  Progressive Writers’ Movement’: Invited presentation at the National Seminar on  ‘Vulnerability and Urdu Literature: Social, Historical and Cultural Perspectives’, 23-24 August 2023, Department of Urdu, School of Humanities, University of  Hyderabad, & UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad,  Telangana, India
  4. ‘The Idea of the Indian Muslim Woman: Identity and Agency vis-à-vis the Indian  State’: At the 9th International Conference on Social Sciences & Humanities, 19-20 March 2022, Burdur, Turkey
  5. ‘Discoursing the Idea(s) of India: A Study of Postcolonial Indian English  Literatures’: At the International Symposium on Literature, Culture and  Language, 26-28 May 2022, Department of English Language and Literature School of Foreign Languages, Van Yüzüncü Yil University, Turkey
  6. ‘Many India(s): The State of Indian Muslims in Academia’: For the Presidential  Panel titled ‘Working Conditions of Women and Minorities in the South Asian  Teaching Industry’, MLA Annual Convention, , 04-07 January 2023, San Francisco,  USA
  7. ‘India without the ‘Other’? Interrogating the Idea of ‘Hindu Rashtra’ in Saeed  Naqvi’s The Muslim Vanishes and Maktoob’s “Erazed”’: For the panel ‘Future  Beyond Dystopia: Dismantling Power Structures and Reconfiguring Agency in South Asia’ at the 51st Annual Conference on South Asia (ACSA), Madison, USA,  18-21 October 2023
  8. ‘Place-ing the Politics of Marginalization: The Everyday Precarity of Dalit Muslims  in India’: At the 23rd Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Online  Conference, on , ‘Ethics of Representation, Forms of Resistance, and Narratives of  Discomfort’, 06-07 April 2024 

Invited Lectures:

  1. On ‘Postcolonialisms: Studying the notions of  Specificity and Plurality’ at Mata Sundri College for Women, University of Delhi, India, March 13, 2019
  2. Research Majlis, Centre for Writing Studies,  OEFL, JSLL (Jindal School of Languages and Literature), O. P. Jindal Global  University, India, 30 March 2023
  3. Panel Discussion, Research Majlis Retrospective & Draftathon 2.0,  Centre for Writing Studies, Office of English and Foreign Languages, Jindal School  of Languages and Literature, O. P. Jindal Global University, India, 24 November  2023

Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships, Grant-in Aids

Professional Development Grant, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2023

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