Specialization

Trauma Literature; Anglophone Kashmiri Trauma Literature; Memory Studies

Email

elham.fatma@thapar.edu

Education: PhD - IIT Roorkee, India, M.A. (English) - AMU, Aligarh, B.A. (Honours) English -AMU, Aligarh, Undergraduate Academic Year - Davis & Elkins College, WV, USA

Visits Abroad (Education & Professional Work)

• Country: USA. Purpose: Education

Undergraduate Academic Year, Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, WV, USA, 2007-2008 - 3.78 GPA & 2007 Fall Semester - 3.5 GPA & 2008 Spring Semester- 4 GPA.

• Country: UK (Cambridge). Purpose: Paper Presentation

2018. “Hegemonic Masculinity and Half-Widows in Shafi Ahmad’s The Half Widow,” in the “2018 International Conference on “Gender (Mis)representation.”” Organized by the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University, UK, 1-2 December, 2018.

Select Publications

• Fatma, Elham, and Rashmi Gaur. “(En)forced Migration, (Up)rootedeness, (In)separability, and (Post)memory in The Garden of Solitude and The Infidel Next Door.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 5, 2021, pp. 1-17, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.1992710. Taylor & Francis Online Journal, UK. T & F Online Journal, UK, UK (Q1; H – INDEX: 21; SJR: 0.27).

• Fatma, Elham, and Rashmi Gaur. “Vulnerabilities, Exploitation, Exclusion, and Social Trauma of Half-Widows in Shafi Ahmad’s The Half Widow.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 49, no. 4, 2020, pp. 499-514., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2020.1772792.Taylor & Francis Online Journal, UK (Q3; H – INDEX: 15; SJR: 0.13).

• Fatma, Elham, Rahul Gairola, and Rashmi Gaur. “Engendering Islam: Religio-Cultural Violence and Trauma in Qaisra Shahraz’s The Holy Woman.” Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, And Orientalism In Contemporary Narratives, edited by Rahul K. Gairola and Sharanya Jayawickrama. Routledge: London & New York, 2020, pp. 138-157., DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315146669. 

• Gairola, Rahul, and Elham Fatma (Corresponding Author). “Conjugal Homes: Marriage Culture in Contemporary Novels of the Pakistani Diaspora.” The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing, edited by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. Routledge: London & New York, 2018, pp. 236–247., DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315180618.

Select Presentations

• “Rape Trauma, Collective Revenge, and Active Resistance against Rape Culture in Priya’s Shakti: India’s First Augmented-Reality Comic Book (2014),” in a Transdisciplinary Workshop (Hybrid): “Rape and Revenge. Revenge Cultures and Sexualized Violence in Intermedial Perspective.” Organized by the University of Hamburg, Germany, 10-12 March 2022.

• “Empathic Unsettlement and Apathetic Rigidity amongst Healthcare Workers in India: Insights into Personal Accounts of Covid-19 Survivors,” in “Empathy in Healthcare: 3rd Biennial Colloquium (Virtual).” Organized by the Dept. of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK, 11-12 November 2021.

• “Reading Pretrauma Dystopian Imaginaries in Lawrence Wright’s Pandemic Fiction: The End of October,” in “The Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture: A (Virtual) Interdisciplinary Conference.” Organized by Cappadocia University, Turkey, 13 – 15 January, 2021.

• “Hegemonic Masculinity and Half-Widows in Shafi Ahmad’s The Half Widow,” in the “2018 International Conference on “Gender (Mis)representation.”” Organized by the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University, UK, 1-2 December, 2018.

Experience

• Assistant Professor (Term) - English, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed to be University), Patiala, Punjab 147004, India. Since 30 September 2022.

• Academic Tutor, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, UK, India, 07 January 2016 - 24 January 2021.

• Assistant Professor (On Ad hoc), Dept. of English, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, 09 Aug-10 Nov, 2014.

• Guest Faculty, Dept. of English, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, Aug 2012 - July 2014.

• Post Graduate Teacher (part-time), Senior Secondary School (Girls), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aug 2011- Mar 2012.

• Instructor, Literacy Training Program for Children and Youth Considered “At Risk,” The Old Brick Play House Company, Elkins, WV, USA, Feb - May 2008.

Awards & Honours

• University Medal for standing first in M. A. (English), 2010.

• Mohammad Tayyab Bakhsh Memorial Gold Medal for securing highest marks in M.A. (English), AMU, Aligarh, 2010.

• Dr Shabnam Zaidi Merit Scholarship in M.A. (English) for securing the highest marks in English in B.A., AMU, Aligarh, 2008-2009.

• Name in the Dean’s List for Academic Standing; Secured 4 GPA in Spring Semester, Davis & Elkins College, USA, April 2008.

• Shoa Fatima Award in B.A. for securing the highest marks in English, Women’s College, AMU, Aligarh, Feb 2007.

Member of the Editorial Team & Manuscript Reviewer for Scholarly Journals

• Copyeditor - Postcolonial Text, affiliated with The Open Humanities Press, UK.

• Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Mother Studies, A Peer-Reviewed, International, Interdisciplinary Open-access, Digital Humanities Hybrid Project. JourMS is affiliated with the Museum of Motherhood and the MOM Art Annex, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area, USA.

Manuscript Reviewer –

1          The New Directions in the Humanities Journal Collection. Common Ground Research Networks, University of Illinois Research Park, Champaign, IL USA.

 Brief Bio

Elham Fatma is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Term) of English in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Thapar Institute of Technology & Engineering, Patiala, Punjab, India. She obtained her PhD in April 2021 from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, titled “Paradise and Pain: Women & Trauma in Select Contemporary Kashmiri Fictions.” She served as an Assistant Professor/Guest Faculty (English) at the Dept. of English, Aligarh Muslim University, India. From the same department, she completed her M.A. in English and was awarded a gold medal. She received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, USA, at the undergraduate level. Her publications comprise articles and chapters on various aspects of trauma studies that have been produced by Routledge and are now being reviewed. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mother Studies (USA) and also serves in the position of copyeditor for the Journal of Postcolonial Text. She has given talks at some of the world's prestigious universities, including Cambridge, Oxford, and Hamburg.