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Faculty Resume
Name Mustanir Ahmad
Personal
HAZARA
UNIVERSITY
Department of English, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
Office: (0092) 997 414134, Mobile: (0092) 314 5605688
Email: mustanir@msn.com, mustanir@hu.edu.pk,
chairman_english@hu.edu.pk
Date of Birth: 13-04-1977
Civil Status: Married
Educational Qualification:
PhD English from International Islamic University, Islamabad
(Thesis Submitted for evaluation) (2011)
MPhil (English Literature) from International Islamic
University, Islamabad in First Division with CGPA 3.41 on
4.0 scale (2008)
M.A. (English Literature) from International Islamic
University, Islamabad in First Division with CGPA 3.40 on a
4.0 scale (2004)

Experience 12 Jan 2012 – to date: Head of the Department /
Assistant Professor of English (BPS-19, Permanent) at Hazara
University, Mansehra, Pakistan
29 Nov 2005 – 11 Jan 2012: Lecturer in English (BPS-18,
Permanent) at Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
Jan 17 – Nov 23, 2005: Lecturer in English (Part-Time) at
International Islamic University, Islamabad
June 18 – Oct 31, 2005: Lecturer in English (Permanent) at
Iqra University, Islamabad Campus
Feb 07 – May 31, 2005: Research Assistant (Contract) at
National Institute of Psychology (NIP), Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad
June 04 – Aug 27, 2004: Lecturer in English (Contract) at
Sarwar Shaheed (N.H.) Govt. Degree College for Boys, Tehsil:
Gujar Khan, Dist: Rawalpindi
Honor and Awards Nil
Memberships Member, Departmental Admission Committee
(Jan 2007 to date)
Member, Course Distribution Committee
(Mar 2007 to date)
Member, Departmental Research Committee
(Mar 2007 to date)
Coordinator, Departmental Examination Committee
(Aug 2009 to July 2010)
Research-Theses Supervision
S.No Student’s Name Degree Level Title of the thesis Status
1 Aziz Ahmad
(University of
Malakand)
2 Ejaz Ahmad
(Hazara University)
3 Khola Farheen
Khokhar
(Hazara University)
MPhil English Use of Language in Bapsi
Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man:
an unusual expression of
feminism
M.A. English Women and Family Values
in Sean O’Casey’s Juno
and the Paycock
M.A. English American Dream in Arthur
Miller’s Death of a
Salesman: a reality or
fantasy
Submitted for
external
evaluation
Degree Awarded
in 2010
Degree awarded
in 2010

4 Naeem Akhtar
(HazaraUniversity)
5 Ayesha Zaman
(Hazara University)
6 Farah Naz
(Hazara University)
7 Muhammad Tariq
(Hazara University)
8 Nosheen Khan
(Hazara University)
9 Shabnam Rani
(Hazara University)
10 Ulfat Zardad Khan
(Hazara University)
11 Neelam Aziz
(Hazara University)
12 Hina Shaukat
(Hazara University)
13 Narina Khan
(Hazara University)
M.A. English Pantheism in the Works of
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
and William Wordsworth
with reference to Saiful
Malook and Tintern Abbey:
a comparative study
M.A. English Post-colonial concerns in
E.M. Forster’s A Passage
to India
M.A. English A Stylistic Analysis of T.S.
Eliot’s The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock
M.A. English Depiction of Crisis at the
time of Partition: a
comparative study of
Khashwant Singh’s Train
to Pakistan and Bapsi
Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man
M.A. English P.B. Shelley’s Odes: a
study in Stylistics
M.A. English John Keats’ Odes: a
stylistic analysis
M.A. English A Comparative Study of the
Selected Poems of Faiz
Ahmed Faiz and
W.H. Auden: a case study in
B.A. (Hons)
English
B.A. (Hons)
English
B.A. (Hons)
English
Marxism
Identity Crisis in Harold
Pinter’s The Caretaker
Arthur Miller’s The
Crucible and the
Contemporary Society: a
case study
Image of ‘Black’ in Joseph
Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness
Degree Awarded
in 2008
Degree Awarded
in 2008
Degree Awarded
in 2008
Degree Awarded
in 2008
Degree Awarded
in 2008
Degree Awarded
in 2008
Degree Awarded
in 2008
Degree Awarded
in 2007
Degree Awarded
in 2007
Degree Awarded
in 2010

Service Activity Head of the Department of English
(Nov 2005 to Jan 2007 and Jan 2012 to date)
Assistant Registrar (Establishment),
as an Additional Charge (Nov 2005 to May 2006)
Chairman, Press & Publication Committee, Hazara
University, Mansehra (2005-06)
Brief Statement of Research
Interest
Chairman, Departmental Admission Committee
(Nov 2005 to Jan 2007)
Secretary, Board of Studies in English
(Jan 2007 to date)
In-charge, MA English (Literature) Programme
(Mar 2007 to Dec 2007)
Provided Editorial Assistance in data collection and
compilation of the Vice Chancellor’s Annual Report
of Hazara University, Mansehra (2005-06)
Editor of the Quarterly Newsletter of Hazara
University, Mansehra (2005-06)
Patron, Hiking Society of Hazara University
(May 2008 to date)
Being a student of literature, I find qualitative research
more suitable to undertake any research project. However,
the special areas I am interested in are as follows:
Postcolonial Studies: Theory and Writings
Spanish and Latin American Literature
Research Methodology
Post/Modern Literature
Publications Ahmad, M. (2005) The Curse of Postmodernity.
Aesthetica, London. 3(3) 16-17
Ahmad, M. & Masood, S. (2009) Gabriel Garcia
Marquez’s No One Writes to the Colonel: An event of
social protest. NUML Research Magazine, Islamabad.
I/2009, 83-96. Available on line at
http://www.numl.edu.pk/QEC/Research
%20Magzine/Volumes/ Abstract%20Vol%20I
%202009.pdf

Ahmad, M., Afsar, A. & Masood, S. (Submitted, 2011)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of Love and Other Demons:
A forgotten Caribbean legend of love into the prevalent
reality of demons. Interventions. UK.
Research Grants and Contracts. Nil
Ahmad, M., Afsar, A. & Masood, S. (Submitted, 2011)
Female characters, institution of family and the politics
of protest: a (re)reading of three Latin American novels.
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. London.
Ahmad, M. & Masood, S. (Submitted, 2011) Selected
Poems by Adrienne Rich: a feminist perspective on ‘the
kingdom of the fathers’. Feminist Review. London.
Accomplishments Ahmad, M. (Submitted, 2011). “Magical Realism as
Social Protest in the Works of Gabriel Garcia
Marquez”. PhD (English) Thesis, Faculty of Languages,
Literature & Humanities, International Islamic
University Islamabad
Selected Professional
Presentations
Ahmad, M. (2008). “Politics and Magic: a
comparative study of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One
Hundred Years of Solitude and Isabel Allende’s The
House of the Spirits”. MPhil (English) Thesis, Faculty
of Languages, Literature & Humanities, International
Islamic University Islamabad
Resource Person in HEC-organized Workshop on
English for Academic Purposes and Teacher Training at
Hazara University Mansehra (May 18 to 26, 2007)
Secretary/Organizer of the First National Conference
on “Cultural and Biological Resources of Pakistan”
conducted by Hazara University Mansehra and Higher
Education Commission of Pakistan at Bara Gali,
Summer Camp, University of Peshawar (23 – 25 August
2006)
Paper entitled “The Traditional and Modern Gender
Role Explanations Behind Attribution of Blame for
Domestic Violence” presented at University of Athens,
Greece (From 8 – 11 July 2009) in the Fourth
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social
Sciences

Paper entitled “Arthur Miller’s The Crucible:
Representation of the coloured community” presented in
the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences
held in Turkey.
(7-8 August 2010)