Rate My Professor Amina Yaqin

Professor Amina Yaqin is Professor of World and Postcolonial Literatures in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, a position she has held since joining the university in 2021. She began her academic career at SOAS University of London in 2000 as Lecturer in Urdu and Postcolonial Studies, advancing to Senior Lecturer. At SOAS, she founded and chaired the Centre for the Study of Pakistan, co-founded and co-chaired the Centre for Gender Studies, chaired the Decolonising Working Group, and directed the SOAS Festival of Ideas. At Exeter, she has served as College of Humanities Anti-Racism Coordinator and currently leads the Department of English and Creative Writing's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion efforts. She earned her PhD from SOAS University of London between 1995 and 2001. Yaqin grew up in Pakistan, and her interdisciplinary research engages with contemporary Muslim life, cultural politics in Pakistan, gender studies, media studies, human rights, and literary theory.

Yaqin's research focuses on gender, sexuality, and feminism in Pakistani Urdu writing, Islamophobia, multiculturalism, and Muslim representation. Her major publications include the monograph Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem Press, 2022) and Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 (co-authored with Peter Morey, Harvard University Press, 2011). She has edited volumes such as Contesting Islamophobia: Media, Politics and Culture (with Peter Morey and Alaya Forte, IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019), Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions (with Peter Morey and Asmaa Soliman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing (with Peter Morey and Rehana Ahmed, Routledge, 2012). Key articles include 'Partition and its echoes in Karachi: The political agencies of Fahmida Riaz and Perween Rahman' (co-authored with Naiza Khan, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2022) and 'Necropolitical Trauma in Kamila Shamsie's Fiction' (The Muslim World, 2021). She has been Co-Principal Investigator on AHRC-funded 'Framing Muslims' and RCUK-funded 'Muslims, Trust and Cultural Dialogue' projects. Yaqin is co-founding co-editor of the Multicultural Textualities series (Manchester University Press) and Critical Pakistan Studies journal (Cambridge University Press). She has delivered keynote talks, including at the University of Central Punjab, and her Exeter inaugural lecture addressed Pakistani feminism.