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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Work Experience
Editorial Experience
Conference Presentations
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Publications
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Yusuf Ayaz

Yusuf Ayaz

Lucknow

Summary

Assistant Professor with over 12 months of experience successfully contributing to curriculum development and delivery. Driven to contribute to program outcomes by facilitating engagement and supporting learning objectives. Enthusiastic professional with a strong background in literary research.

Overview

Work History

Research Scholar

University of Lucknow
  • Literature and Psychopathology: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Portrayal of Mental Illness in Modern and Postmodern Fiction. (PhD Research under the supervision of Prof. Fatima Rizvi), 2020 –
  • Criminology and Literature: An Interdisciplinary Study of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin and Albert Camus’ The Stranger. (Masters Dissertation) 2019
  • “The Troubadour of Troubled Times: A Critical Study of Bob Dylan as a Sociopolitical Songwriter in the 60s.” 2018
  • “Nationalism in Indian English Poetry, 1800 – 1857.” 2018
  • “America vs. Europe in Henry James’ The American & The Europeans.” 2018

Education

PhD - Department of English and Modern European Languages

University of Lucknow

Two Credit Online Certificate Course in Disability Studies -

Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi

UGC NET (qualified) -

M.A. in English -

University of Lucknow
01.2019

B.A. (Hons) in English -

University of Delhi
01.2017

Skills

  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Friendly, Positive Attitude
  • Problem-Solving
  • Time Management
  • Multitasking
  • Computer Skills
  • Excellent Communication
  • Organizational Skills
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependable and Responsible
  • Flexible and Adaptable
  • Calm Under Pressure

Work Experience

Assistant Professor (Temporary), Department of English and Modern European and Asian Languages, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University, Lucknow, from November, 2023.

Editorial Experience

  • Associate Editor, Rhetorica, Fiction, 2021
  • Copy-editor, Understanding Disability: Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches, Ranu Uniyal and Fatima Rizvi, Springer, 2023

Conference Presentations

  • The Fool-Lunatic Complex: A Study of Humor and Madness in Renaissance Society, IACLALS Annual Conference, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, Goa, 02/15/24, 02/17/24
  • Post-Truth and the Distorted Perception of Reality for the Psychopathological Unreliable Narrator, International Conference, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, 11/28/23, 11/29/23
  • The Battle After the War: Portrayal of PTSD in Select Works of Modernist Fiction, International Conference, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, 02/25/23, 02/26/23
  • Worst comes to Worst: Fateful Fears vis-à-vis Farfetched Fantasies, Annual International Conference of the IACLALS, 03/17/21, 03/20/21
  • A Postmodern Discourse on Disability as a Social Construct & Dismantling of the Norm in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, International Conference, University of Lucknow, 10/21/19, 10/23/19

Other Academic Activities

Guest Lecture, Criminology and Criminal Studies, Department of English, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, 10/03/20

Publications

  • The Battle after the War: Portrayal of PTSD in Select Works of Modernist Fiction, The Criterion, 14, V, 2023
  • The Lacanian-Althusserian Paradigm: An Intertextual Study of Subjectivity, The Criterion, 14, V, 2023
  • Book Review of Pixie Dust & All Things Magical: Global Poetry in English 2022, Rhetorica, 2, IV, 2022
  • Book Review of the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, 2020 – 2021, Rhetorica, 2, I, 2021

Accomplishments

Two Credit Online Certificate Course in Disability Studies

Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in collaboration with the Saksham Trust.

2021

UGC NET (qualified)

National Eligibility Test for the post of Assistant Prof. conducted by UGC.

2019

Timeline

Research Scholar

University of Lucknow

PhD - Department of English and Modern European Languages

University of Lucknow

Two Credit Online Certificate Course in Disability Studies -

Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi

UGC NET (qualified) -

M.A. in English -

University of Lucknow

B.A. (Hons) in English -

University of Delhi

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