Amina Yaqin

Amina Yaqin is Professor in World and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Exeter. She has published on selected topics related to twentieth century Urdu and English literature, gender, sexuality, feminism, South Asian culture and Muslim communities. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing, co-author (with Peter Morey) of Framing Muslims: stereotyping and representation after 9/11 and co-editor of Contesting Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim prejudice in Media, Culture and Politics, Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions, Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing. Currently, she is co-investigator of a UKRI Arts and Humanities funded project, Empathy, Narrative and Cultural Values. This project explores cultural values in relation to education and health narratives in the West Midlands amongst South Asian Muslim communities. Her commentary and interviews have been aired by the BBC, SkyNews, EuroNews, TRT World, Indus News and Pakistan Television Network. She has written for The National UAE, The Times Higher Education UK, the British Film Institute, The Conversation, The Friday Times, Daily Pioneer. She is Co-Editor in Chief of Critical Pakistan Studies published by Cambridge University Press and Founding Co-Editor of the book series Global Textualities: Multicultural and Transcultural Narratives published by Manchester University Press.