Wafa Hamid

Ms. Wafa Hamid is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. She has taught several courses in English language and literature at the postgraduate and undergraduate level. She is pursuing her doctoral research at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi after completing her M.Phil in English from the same Centre in 2011. Her doctoral research explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics with a focus on the representation of marginalized subjectivities thereby leading to a negotiation of boundaries between public/private, past/present, centre/periphery, and self/other. Her main areas of interest include: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Theory, Popular Culture, Women’s Writing, Culture Studies,  South Asian Studies and Translation Studies among others. Her most recent publication includes a study of the Kashmiri-American poet, Agha Shahid Ali with a focus on the politics and poetics of Kashmir. She is a 2005 Study of U.S. Institute (SUSI) fellow and is also contributing editor of Jaggerylit: A South-Asian Arts and Literature Journal.