Rate My Professor Amina Yaqin

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.