Speaker

Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan

Dr. Maryam Wasif Khan is an Associate Professor at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences. She is a literary historian and comparatist specializing in vernacular literatures and their intersections with colonial and postcolonial identities. Trained in Comparative Literature at UCLA under Professor Aamir Mufti, she completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University, majoring in Comparative Literature with a minor in European Cultural Studies. Her first book, Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms (Fordham University Press, 2021), critically examines the impact of orientalism on the Urdu literary canon and the construction of Muslim identity in South Asia over three centuries. Currently, she researches the recontextualization of Western canonical texts beyond the Euro-American academy and teaches core courses in the Comparative Literature and Creative Arts program.