Shabeeh Rahat

Shabeeh Rahat

Assistant Professor
Programs
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About Shabeeh Rahat

Dr Shabeeh Rahat is an Assistant Professor at the CEPT Writing Center. She has a doctorate in English Literature and specializes in Postcolonial Studies with reference to India.
She has taught the Foundation course ​“Reading Objects, Writing Craft”, doctoral seminar ​“Text and the City” for Planning, an elective titled ​“Place and Literature” and routinely conducts research and writing workshops across faculties at all levels.
  • English Studies

Conference

  1. ​“Hindu Muslim Bhai-Bhai”: Challenges to Fraternal Claims and the Places of Worship Act in Contemporary India MLA 2026
  2. Asserting Political Subjectivities, Negotiating Citizenship: Indian Muslim Women in Contemporary Times ECSAS 2025
  3. Discourse of Nation in Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag ka Darya Understanding Nation: Issues and Comparative Ideas in the Contemporary Context
  4. India without the ​‘Other’? Interrogating the Idea of ​‘Hindu Rashtra’ in Saeed Naqvi’s The Muslim Vanishes and Maktoob’s ​“Erazed” 51st Annual Conference on South Asia (ACSA)
  5. Negotiating Citizenship, Reclaiming Azadi: Kashmiri Muslim Women and their tales of Resistance 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia (ACSA)
  6. Non-Anglophone Narratives of ​“Muslim Livings” and Islamophobia in Post-Liberal India What Happened to (Former) Third World Literature and Culture: From the Cold War to a Multipolar World
  7. Place-ing the Politics of Marginalization: The Everyday Precarity of Dalit Muslims in India 23rd Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Online Conference
  8. Reading Violence: Construction of the Indian Muslim Identity through select Urdu and Hind Short Fiction 25th European Conference for South Asian Studies
  9. Sufistic Thought in Modern Urdu Poetry from India and Pakistan with special reference to Ibn-e-Insha Culture, Arts and Socio-Political Movements in South Asia: Comparative Perspectives
  10. The Cult of Violence in Manto’s Partition Narrative Language Literature and Society- Influences and Counter Influences
  11. The Idea of the Indian Muslim Woman: Identity and Agency vis-à-vis the Indian State 9th International Conference on Social Sciences & Humanities
  12. Beyond Outraging Modesty: Kashmiri Muslim Women’s tales of Resistance American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

Seminar

  1. Archiving Invisibility: Women in select Literary Imaginaries of the Indian Freedom Struggle Women in India’s Freedom Movement: Exploring their Visibility and Invisibility
  2. From Becoming to Being: Dance and Sufism Sufism: The Road to Self- Realization
  3. Nation vis-a-vis Civilisation in Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag ka Darya Revisiting the Contributions of Qurratulain Hyder to Urdu Literature
  4. Partition 1947 in Chughtai National Birth Centenary Seminar on Ismat Chughtai
  5. River of Fire: The Afterlife of Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag ka Darya Translating/​Transcreating the Cultures of Existence
  6. The Indian Narrative of Islam Other as Plural: Narrativising Marginal Self, History and Culture
  7. There are Some More Partitions to be done’: On the India-Pakistan Partition short stories of Saadat Hasan Manto Student Seminar, The Pickwick Festival
  8. Writing Aspiration, Writing Vulnerability: Interrogating Women Writers of the Progressive Writers’ Movement Vulnerability and Urdu Literature: Social, Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Symposium

  1. Discoursing the Idea of India: A Study of Postcolonial Texts, Contexts and Theoretical Reading Paradigms Decolonizing Methodologies
  2. Discoursing the Idea(s) of India: A Study of Postcolonial Indian English Literatures International Symposium on Literature, Culture and Language

Other

  1. Finding Reasons for Doing Literature: A ​‘Delulu’ Attempt at Reconfiguring Postcolonial India Research Majlis Retrospective & Draftathon 2.0
  2. Interrogating the Specificities of the Indian Postcolonial: A Reading of select Indian English texts Research Majlis
  3. Postcolonialisms: Studying the notions of Specificity and Plurality Interactive session

Convention

  1. Many India(s): The State of Indian Muslims in Academia Modern Language Association Annual Convention 2023

Workshop

  1. Premchand’s Non-Fiction Prose International Translation Workshop
  2. Premchand’s Non-Fiction Prose Premchand’s Non-Fiction Prose

Journal Article

  1. ​“Paradise Lost” or ​“Paradise Regained”: Conflict in Jammu & Kashmir since the Political Gambit of the Article 370’ Sole author Eastern Quarterly
  2. Reading Islam Through Select Contemporary Urdu and Hindi Short Stories Sole author Tridhara
  3. Reading the Cult of Violence in Manto’s Partition Narrative through Siyah Hashiye Sole author The Inward Eye: Patliputra Journal of English Studies
  4. Sufistic Thought in Modern Urdu Poetry from India and Pakistan with special reference to Ibn-e-Insha Sole author Daath Voyage

Book Chapter

  1. An important proposition by the Sahitya Sammelan Sole author Premchand on Literature and Life: Selections (Translated from the Hindi)
  2. Boys who fail Sole author Premchand on Culture and Education (Translated from Hindi to English)
  3. Dalit Politics vis-à-vis Care Ethics in India: A study of the Pasmanda Movement in Bihar Sole author Manchester University Press
  4. From Becoming to Being: Dance and Sufism Sole author Sufism: The Road to Self-Realization
  5. Problematic of Silence and Memories: The Case of Kunan-Poshpora Mass Rapes Sole author An Appraisal of the Contemporary Indian Legal Landscape
  6. Understanding Yajna: The Decolonial Praxis of Gandhi through Manu Gandhi’s Diary Sole author Decolonising Anthropology
  1. Book Review: Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation Sole author South Asian Review
  2. Book Review: Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts Sole author South Asian Review
  3. Book Review: The Gravity of Hope Sole author Doing Sociology

Conference Proceedings

  1. Discoursing the Idea(s) of India: A Study of Postcolonial Indian English Literatures Sole author International Symposium on Literature, Culture and Language
  2. Non-Anglophone Narratives of ​“Muslim Livings” and Islamophobia in Post-Liberal India Sole author What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?
  3. The Idea of the Indian Muslim Woman: Identity and Agency vis-à-vis the Indian State Sole author 9th International Conference on Social Sciences & Humanities

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