Faculty Profile

Dr Ambreen Salahuddindid her PhD in Gender Studies from the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, University of the Punjab. Her area of research is Gender and Literature. Title of her PhD thesis is "Women’s lives and images: Traditional Symbolism in Pakistani Fiction". Dr Ambreen Salahuddin has teaching experience of around 15 years as University Faculty at LCWU and UMT. She has five books to her credit. Her research work titled as Feminism in Modern Urdu Poetesses published in 2005, is included in syllabus of Gender Studies at various universities. Research areas of her interest are gender and literature, gender identities, feminism, fiction, women writers, entrepreneurship, women vendors and theological debates.

Publications:

Books

1.  “Haqeeqat ka Jadu” Urdu translation of Richard Dawkin’s Magic of Reality. Published by Urdu Science Board. June 2018. (SATHA innovation Award)
2. “Farhang-e-Sinfi Mutaleyat” A companion of Gender Studies in Urdu. Published by Urdu Science Board, Lahore. April 2018.
3. “Sadyon Jaise Pal” Poetry in Urdu published by The Writers’, 2014. 2nd Edition published by Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore in 2019.
4. "Feminism in Modern Urdu Poetesses" Research work published by West Pakistan Urdu Academy, 2005.
5. "Sar-e-Dasht-e-GumaaN" Poetry in Urdu published by Al-Hamd Publications, 2004. 2^nd Edition published by Multimedia Affairs, Lahore in 2011. (PEN Pakistan Best 1^st Book Award 2004-2005)

Research Articles

• “Threshold: A Spatial and Ideological Barrier in South Asian Fiction – A Case Study of Pakistani women fiction writers” Paper published in ‘Research journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2016. (HEC recognized X category).
• “Beyond the threshold: Emancipation or Entrapment? The Feminine Archetypes in Pakistani Women Fiction Writers” Paper published in ‘The journal of Research (Humanities)’, Vol. LIII. January 2017. 
• "Usage of religious symbols in fiction by Pakistani women writers” Paper published in ‘Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization’, Vol. 8, Issue 1. June 2018. (HEC recognized Y category).
• “Pakistani khawateen ke fiction mein Lakshman Rekha ko paar karne ki alamat: Iradi aur gher iradi amal ka qazia” [Crossing Lakhshman Rekha in fiction by Pakistani women writers:  The debate of intentional and unintentional act]. Mayar, Vol. 21. Jan- June 2019.
• “Mystic language and symbols: Unity of Being and Pakistani women fiction writers” Paper published in Journal of Islamic thought and civilization, Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2020. (HEC recognized X category).
• “Khalida Hussain ki Gung Shehzadi aur Hélèn Cixous ki Medusa ka qehqaha” [Khalida Hussain’s Gung Shehzadi and the laugh of Hélèn Cixous’s Medusa]. Bunyad, Volume 11. 2020. (HEC recognized Y category).

Project

• Won research grant (401,500) of PCSW. Project title: The nexus of mobility and empowerment in women vegetable/fruit vendors of Lahore. Time period: 1^st October 2018- 30^th November 2018.