Nukhbah Taj Langah

Dynamic academic specializing in postcolonial studies with proven disciplinary expertise and publications. Taught diverse undergraduate and graduate-level courses at diverse institutions with excellent response from students during past year. Strong subject matter knowledge and creative thinker with flexibility to allow audience to guide direction of lectures and achieve most out of interdisciplinary research experience.

• Designed and taught new undergraduate & graduate courses in dynamic mixed ability classrooms and cultural contexts
• Promoted interdisciplinary collaborative research, trained a team of diverse young researchers engaged in grant projects
• Effectively established undergraduate & graduate programs
• Administered a large team to create new departments, administrative units and conducted faculty trainings and evaluations

2023-2025 (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

MA/PhD Internal/ External examiner

MA/PhD thesis panelist & evaluator

Proofreader for Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Adjudicator (STEM)

Website coordinator (health and safety)

2009-2022 (Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan)

Dean of Humanities

Department of English Chair

Learning Group Convener for Advance & Basic Writing Courses (ENGL 101 & ENGL103)

Convener FCCU Admissions Committee

Conference Convener

‘Publishing in English' through Center of Learning & Training

Humanities Symposia Series Coordinator

Ewing Literary Society Advisor

Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series organizer

Team Leader for Student-Faculty Collaboration supported by Global Liberal Arts Alliance (GLCA) and Library of Congress, USA  & FCCU

2006-2008  (University of Leeds, UK)

Special Circumstances Invigilator, Disability Services 

Conference Assistant for Geoffrey Hill Poetry Reading Event

Administrative Assistant Department of English

Administrative Assistant, Central Student Administrator

Convener Pakistan Workshop, Rook How, The Lake District, UK

• Archives of Siraiki Cultural and Political History in Pakistan, Principal Investigator, UCLA, USA, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024-2025 (Grant amount: $15000)
• Archives of Siraiki Cultural and Political History Early Career Research Grant, Principal Investigator, University of Malaya, 2024-2025, (Grant amount: RM 5000)
• The Southern Collective, Project Partner, 2021 (Voluntary involvement)
• Advancing Female Literacy and Empowerment in Pakistan and India through Life Writing, Project Partner Lead, 2019-2022, (Grant amount: $1,972)

• Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Writing Fellowship, Janda Baik, Pahang Darul Makmur, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10/27/23 - 10/29/23
• Charles Wallace Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK, 01/2018 - 03/2018
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Le Centre d' Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Paris, France, 01/2016 - 08/2017

List of publications submitted along with CV

• Panel member and participant at Twenty-second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Sapienza University of Rome (University) sponsored by New York University, Abu Dhabi (travel and stay supported by NYUAD) (2024)
• Paper presentation supported by the University of Berkeley and Berkeley Pakistan Initiative, California, USA (2015)
• Project lead for the Faculty-Student Research Program organized by Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. This trip was fully funded by GLCA (for faculty) and FCCU (2014)
• Paper presentation on a panel titled ‘Subversive and Regional Cultures in Pakistan' supported by Centre of Asian Studies, Centre for South Asian Studies, EHESS-CNRS, Paris (2014)
• Paper presentation supported by Netaji Subhash Open University to travel to Kolkata to present a paper at the International Seminar (2013)
• Paper presentation at a Seminar supported by The Embassy of France in Pakistan & The Alliance Française de Karachi to present at a seminar being organized at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad (2013)
• Paper supported by Wooster College Great Lakes Colleges Association (USA) (2013)
• Paper presentation supported by Forum of Federations & Centre of Civic Education to present a paper in Kathmandu, Nepal (2011)
• Paper presentation supported by the South Asian Literary Association Conference in L.A., USA (2011)
• Charles Wallace Trust (UK)Scholarship (2008)
• Translations of Urdu poet Noshi Gillani supported by the Poetry Translation Centre, U.K (2007)

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER GUEST EDITOR CONSULTANCY EXTERNAL REVIEWER

• Cogent Arts & Humanities. Taylor & Francis. Online ISSN: 2331-1983 (Q1)
• National Identities: Critical Inquiry into Nationhood, Politics, & Culture. Taylor & Francis. ISSN: 14608944 (Q1)
• Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Sage Journals). ISSN 00219894, 17416442 (Q1)
• South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Open Access). Taylor & Francis
• JSS: Open Journal of Social Sciences (Scientific Research: An Academic Publisher). ISSN 0085-6401. EISSN 1479-0270 (Q1)
• Feminist Theory Journal. Newcastle University (UK). ISSN 14647001. EISSN 1741-2773 (Q1)
• Politeja, The Journal of the Faculty of International and Political Studies. Jagiellonian University, Poland. ISSN: 1733-6716 (print), 2391-6737 (online). (Q1)
• Pakistan Journal of Women Studies. Pakistan Association of Women Studies - PAWS. ISSN: 1024- 12156
• Society and Culture in South Asia. South Asian University, New Delhi, India. ISSN. 2393-8617. (Q2)
• Media Asia. Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Taylor & Francis. Print ISSN, 0129-6612. Online ISSN, 2377-6277. (Q2)
• Journal of Research in Humanities, Institute of English Studies University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. ISSN- 1812-1128. E-ISSN: 2522-6851
• Southeast Asian Review of English-SARE. Department of English, University of Malaya, Malaysia. ISSN 0127046X. EISSN 0127-046X. (Q2)
• Journal of Communication and Cultural Trends, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. ISSN: 2706-9141. EISSN): 2706-915X.
• Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK)
• Critical Pakistan Studies (Cambridge University Press)
• Pakistan Journal of American Studies (Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad)
• Journal of English Language, Literature & Education (JELLE), Lahore Garrison University, Pakistan

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

• Langah, N and Vandana Saxena, Special Issue: ‘Viraha and the Nation: Poetics and Politics of Longing’, SOUTH ASIA: JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES (2026) (Scopus)
• Langah, N and Vandana Saxena, Special Issue Representation of South Asia in Contemporary Pakistani Travelogs. Critical Pakistan Studies, 2025. Cambridge University Press on behalf of the owners, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and Cambridge University Press
• Langah, N and Goutam Karmakar, Special Issue “Religion, Secularism, and Nationalism", South East Asian Review of English - SARE, Department of English, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Volume 60, No. 1, July 2023. (Scopus)

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

• Roy, Anjali Gera & Langah, N., Muse India: the Literary E-journal. July-August 2011. Special feature on Siraiki Across India and Pakistan

GUEST EDITOR

• Langah, N and Vandana Saxena, Special Issue: ‘Viraha and the Nation: Poetics and Politics of Longing’, SOUTH ASIA: JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES (2026) (Scopus)
• Langah, N and Vandana Saxena, Special Issue Representation of South Asia in Contemporary Pakistani Travelogs. Critical Pakistan Studies, 2025. Cambridge University Press on behalf of the owners, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and Cambridge University Press
• Langah, N and Goutam Karmakar, Special Issue “Religion, Secularism, and Nationalism", South East Asian Review of English - SARE, Department of English, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Volume 60, No. 1, July 2023. (Scopus)
• Roy, Anjali Gera & Langah, N., Muse India: the Literary E-journal. July-August 2011. Special feature on Siraiki Across India and Pakistan

CONSULTANCY

• Siraiki province in Pakistan for Forum of Federations: The Global Network on Federalisms (Canada) (2011)

EXTERNAL REVIEWER

• Area Study Centre for Africa, North and South America, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan
• The Department of English & Applied Linguistics & Area Study Center, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
• University of Malaya, Malaysia
• La Rochelle University, France
• Department of English, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan

University of Malaya Library

Foundation of Endangered Languages (UK)

Library of Congress (USA)

British Library, London

BULAC, Paris

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Modern Languages Association (MLA), USA

North East Modern Languages Association (NEMLA)

South Asian Literary Association

Pakistan Research Group

Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir 

Professor of English

Director, Modern Moves www.modernmoves.org.uk

Department of English, King’s College, London

Strand

London WC2R 2LS

ananya.kabir@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Vandana Saxena

Senior Lecturer

Department of English

University of Malaya

Kuala Lumpur

vandana@um.edu.my