Prof. Dr. Mustanir Ahmad
Biography

Dr. Mustanir Ahmad earned his PhD in English Language & Literature from the International Islamic University, Islamabad, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research interests span a range of topics, including postcolonial theory and literature, postmodern narrative techniques (such as magical realism, hallucinatory realism, intertextuality, historiographic metafiction, etc.), South Asian and South American literature, teaching English as a second language, psychoanalysis, and social psychology. Dr. Ahmad has numerous research publications in both national and international journals. A collection of his poems was published in Vienna and London under the title "A Drop of Rain and Other Poems". So far, as an HEC-recognized PhD Supervisor, he has successfully supervised 6 PhD and 56 MPhil students. In addition, Dr. Ahmad contributes actively to academia as a member of various statutory bodies at universities across Pakistan, advancing research and academic programs in his field.

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Academic Background

S.No	Degree Title	Institute	Degree Completion Year
1	PhD English Language and Literature	International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan	2015
2	Postdoc	The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	2024

Publications

S.No	Publication Title	Authors	Action
1	Man-Animal relationship in D. H. Lawrence’s twin novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love: A Zoocritical Perspective	Shakoor, A. & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
2	A Study of Code-switching Strategies in Pakistani Anglophone Writings	Jadoon, N. K., Ahmad, M., & Q. Marriyam	Click to View
3	Dynamic Model of the Evolution of Postcolonial Englishes: Some Reflections on it in the Context of Pakistani English	Jadoon, N. K., Ahmad, M., & Q. Marriyam	Click to View
4	A Study of Socio-Political Issues Triggering Instability and Failure of State in Nobody Killed Her	Ahmed, A., Ahmad, M., & Farooq, A.	Click to View
5	A Study of Lexical Features of Pakistani English	Jadoon, N. K., & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
6	Anarcho-Primitivism in D.H. Lawrence’s Post War Fiction: An Eco-Critical Analysis	Shakoor, A., & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
7	Loss and Redemption Experienced by Jamubhai Patel in Kiran Desai’s the Inheritance of Loss: A Post-Colonial Analysis	Ahmed, E. Q., & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
8	Representation of Diasporic Identity in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire	Saqib, M., Ahmad, M., & Rahat, L.	Click to View
9	The Role of Case Marking in Derivation of Pahari Clauses: A Minimalist Analysis	Khalique, S., Bukhari, N. H., & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
10	Post-colonial Eco-critical Concerns in D.H. Lawrence’s Post-War Novels	Shakoor, A. & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
11	Pakistani English: A Glimpse of Phonetics and Phonological Features	Jadoon, N. K., & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
12	Dictatorial Rule, Political Repression, and the Third World: An Analysis of Gabriel García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch	Ahmad, M., Afsar, A., & Masood, S.	Click to View
13	Analysis of the Transformation of the Protagonist in Sherman Alexie’s Flight through the Lens of Magical Realism	Yar, A., Ahmad, R., & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
14	Cold War and the Politics of Religious Identity in South Asian Fiction	Bashir, A., & Ahmad, M.	Click to View
15	Towards Understanding Transnational Blackness: A Counteractive Role of Family in 21st Century African American Novel	Ahmed, A., Ahmad, M., & Ijaz, A.	Click to View
16	Ergativity in Pashto	Hamid, A., Rahman, G., Ahmad, M., & Karam, A.	Click to View
17	Analyzing Portrayal of Orthodox Muslim Women in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret	Khan, A., Ahmad, M., Hamid, A., & Rahman, G.	Click to View