1) The document provides details about the Department of Linguistics, including its academic programs, faculty members, and research output.
2) It was established in 2020 and offers BS, MPhil, and PhD programs in English language and literature. It has 17 full-time faculty members and several pursuing or recently completed their PhD degrees.
3) The faculty have published over 30 papers nationally and internationally and presented their research at several conferences, with topics related to literary analysis, language studies, and comparing translations.
3. Department of Linguistics
Year of Establishment 2020
Academic Programs
Program Year of Starting
BS-English 2020
M.Phil. (English Literature) 2021
PhD (English) 2021
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10. Faculty Members:
Designation No
Professor 00
Associate Professors 0
Assistant Professors 03
Lecturers 05 regular & 09 on contract (fixed pay)
Total
PhD faculty 03
Faculty Pursuing their PhD education are 03.
01 faculty member is expected to defend the thesis in 2023
and 02 are expected to complete their degree in 2026.
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15. Details of M.Phil/PhD Programs
M. Phil English Literature Program:
Year Batch No of Students
2021 2021-2023 18
PhD English Program:
Year Batch No of Students
2021 2021-2024 10
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24. Research Output of Faculty Members
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S.
no
Name No of
Papers
National Internation
al
1. Dr. Waheed A.
Khan
16 11 05
2. Dr. Azka Khan 06 05 01
3. Muhammad
Farooq
04 04 -
4. Muhammad
Sohaib
02 02 -
5. Imdad Ali 02 - 02
6. Rabia Gul 02 02 -
Total 32 24 08
25. Collaboration, achievements
etc.
Faculty visits abroad:
Muhammad Farooq, lecturer Department of Linguistics, The University of Haripur visited The
University of Georgia, U.S on HEC Award (IRSIP) for the write-up of his doctoral thesis w.e.f.
01-07-2021 to 01-01-2022
Achievements
Workshop conducted
Resource person: Dr. Azka Khan (arranged at University of Sargodha)
Inferring Themes: Comparing Corpus Software for Analyzing Discourse
At ICLAP 2021 7th International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan 2021
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26. Paper presented in – International Conference 2022
Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women
University, Rawalpindi
Fidelity and Infidelity: A Trans-Historical and Cultural
Comparative Analysis of Sister Carrie and Mere Pas Tum Hu
Dr. Imran Ali
Subverting Meaning through Intertextuality: Corpus-based
Approach Dr. Azka Khan
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27. Papers presented by the Faculty members First International
Multidisciplinary Conference on Embracing Change &
Transformation in Society (June 7-9, 2022)
What can Computers Tell us – Lexical Diversity and Regularity in the
Fictional Narratives (Ramsha Khan, Dr. Azka Khan)
The Investment Model of Commitment: A Trans Historical and
Cultural Comparative Study (Dr. Imran Ali, Ms. Ayla Khan)
The Predicament of the Postcolonial or Post-Covid Reader (Dr. Najma
Saher, Muhammad Bilal Sethi)
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28. 28
Branded Identity and Beauty Industry: Shaping Norms
through Discourse (Malik Jawed Ahmed Khan)
Graphic Novels: a Source of Redefining
Literariness (Ume Kalsoom)
1984: A Corpus Based Critical Discourse Analysis of
Paranoia of Big Brother in Orwell
(Bilal Sabir)
Papers presented by the PhD scholars in First International Multidisciplinary
Conference on Embracing Change & Transformation in Society (June 7-9,
9, 2022)
Dehumanized and Demonized Natives: A Critique of
the American Sniper (Inaam Ullah)
Intertextuality- a tool for making meaning in Conquest
of Happiness (Jawad Khan)
29. Attachment theory in “Alice in the wonderland” Film
Adaptation by Tim Burton (Umar Rahman, Ayesha
Malik)
Meaning Making in Concrete Poetry: A Study of
Syntactic & Lexical Choices (Maryam Nawaz, Bushra
Wazir)
Comparison of System Translation Method (SMT) and
Manual Translation (MT) in Urdu-English Parallel
Corpus (Meenam Mehmood & Zubair Khan)
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Papers presented by the MPhil scholars in First International
Multidisciplinary Conference on Embracing Change &
Transformation in Society (June 7-9, 2022)