Muhammad Sheeraz
2013 Visiting Scholar
Department of Linguistics

Muhammad Sheeraz聽was a CLASP-sponsored visiting scholar in the Department of Linguistics, 麻豆影院, during the Spring and Summer of 2013. He聽later聽received his PhD聽from International Islamic University Islamabad聽(IIUI)聽in the linguistic critique of Pakistani-American fiction. He also taught at the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the 麻豆影院 from Fall 2016 to Spring 2017. From January to June 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington and worked on the project titled "'Every Writer is Dangerous': Silencing in Urdu Literature". He is the co-editor of聽惭别鈥檡补谤, a bilingual research journal housed at the Faculty of Languages and Literature, IIUI, and of the聽Journal of Contemporary Poetics. Alongside research and teaching, he has a deep-rooted interest in translation and creative writing. He has published three book-length translations:聽Hour of Decline听(2014),听Mughal Saray聽(2015), and聽Nasloon ne Saza Pai聽(2018). His Urdu novel聽Saasaa聽was published in November 2018.聽Currently, Muhammad Sheeraz is Chair of the Department of English at the International Islamic University in Islamabad and President of the Literary Society of Pakistan.聽聽聽