Permanent address: Fazul Haq Colony, Upper Batpora, Zukura, Srinagar, Kashmir-190002 Address for correspondence: Department of English University of Kashmir Hazratbal- Srinagar Kashmir-190002 Mb.No: 9419517314/8825025534/9596256 118 E-mail: tasleemwar@uok.edu.in tasleemelt@gmail.com Tasleem Ahmad War Father s Name: Ghulam Mustaffa War Place of Birth: Srinagar Current occupation: 1. Working as Sr. Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Kashmir-190006 since February 2007. Educational qualifications: M.A. English with First Class (Kashmir University), UGC (NET in English)(2002) M.A. Linguistics with First Class (Annamalai University) with UGC- NET M.A. Psychology with Distinction (IGNOU) M.A. Philosophy with First Class (IGNOU) Ph.D in English,(2009) TEFL (Online U.K), One Month. Post Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Osmania University Centre for International Programmes, Hyderabad, in February 2012 on Kurt Vonnegut. UGC-Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded in 2013-14 at Rice
University, Houston, Texas, USA Teaching Experience: 1. Two years experience at U. G. Level as a Contractual Lecturer 2. Three years experience in the Department of English, South Campus, University of Kashmir as Contractual Lecturer from 2003-2005 3. Part time academic approved counsellor in IGNOU, teaching P.G. English since 2002 at Amar Singh college-srinagar (Study center code: 1202) up to 2013. 4. Guest lecturer in the Department of Law for Legal English from 2007 to 2010. 5. Guest lecturer in the Department of Education for Teaching of English to B.ed Students in 2009. 6. Guest lecturer in the Department of Electronics for English Communication to B.Tech students from 2009 to 2013. Research Experience: 1. Awarded and completed UGC-Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship from August 2013 to March 2014 at Rice University, Houston, Texas. USA. 2. Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by OUCIP Hyderabad in 2012. 3. Ph.D on Graham Greene s Apocalyptic Fiction: A Study of his Selected Novels. 4. Approved Co-Guide for M.Phil/Ph.D linguistics/iqbal Institute of Culture and Philosophy research scholars 5. Produced 7 M Phil scholars so far and 6 Ph.D scholars presently enrolled with me. One of them namely Mudasir Ahmad Shah has already submitted his Ph.D and is likely to be awarded soon. 6. Completed Minor Research Project(UGC) on Translation of Twenty short stories from Kashmiri into English. Publications: Books: 1: Approaching the End: Apocalyptic Vision in Graham Greene s Select Novels. Adhyayan Publishers and Distributors, 2012. (ISBN- 978-8184353464)
2: Vignettes: Short Stories from Kashmir. Jay Kay Publishers. 2015. (ISBN:978383908509). 3: Enmeshed Life. (Translation of Akhtar Mohiuddin s novella from Kashmiri to English). Saroop and Sons. 2017. (ISBN: 978-9352080892) Research Articles: 1. Doris Lessing s Leap into Apocalyptic Fiction: The Criterion: An International Journal in English.(ISSN:0976-8165) Vol III, Issue IV,31 December, 2012. 2. Games and Language Teaching. The Journal of English Language Teaching (ISSN:0973-5208). Vol.50/4 July-August 2012. 3. Political Thought of Shah-i-Hamedan and N.Machiavelli: A Study in Contrast. New Academia-(ISSN: 2277-3967). An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory. Volume I, Issue III, 2012 4 Appropriating Paradoxes of Teaching Deconstruction: An Eastern Approach. Contemporary Discourse: A Peer Reviewed International Journal.(ISSN: 0976-3686). Volume 3, Issue 2. 2012 5. Sheikhul-Alam and the Apocalyptic Tradition. Alamdar: A Journal of Kashmiri Society and Culture. (ISSN: 2249-5096)Vol.V, No.5.2012. 6. Retrieval of India culture and tradition in Girish Karnad s Plays. Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (ISSN: 2278-9529). Volume 1, Issue 1. January 2012. 7.Apocalypse Then and Now. The Criterion: An International Journal in English. (ISSN 0976-8165) Vol II. Issue. I. April 2011. 8. Marital Incompatibility in Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. English Studies in India.(ISSN 09756574) Vol XVIII. 2011. 9.The Cultural Catholicism of Graham Greene. English Studies in India, (ISSN: 09756574) Vol XVII. 2010. 10. Religion as a Mode of Political Discourse in The Power and the Glory. English Studies in India.(ISSN 09756574) Vol XVII. 2009. 11.The Impact of Cultural Globalization on Kashmiri Language. English Studies in India.(ISSN 09756-574) Vol XVI.2008. 12.A Postcolonial Study of Graham Greene s The Heart of the Matter.(ISSN 09756574) English Studies in India, K.U. Vol. XIV.2006. 13. Gradual Extinction of Kashmiri Language. Inquiry: An Educational Journal of
Government College of Education. ISSN: 09756574.(2010,Vol:33, P No: 181-88) 14. The Whisky-Priests Journey to Sainthood: A Study of Graham Greene s The Power and the Glory. English Studies in India, Department of English. (ISSN: 09756574: 2012,Vol 20). Awards/Fellowships 1. Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded at OUCIP, Hyderabad on 1 February 2012. 2. UGC-Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship(2013-14) at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Other Achievements: 1. Orientation Course attended in February-March 2007 at UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Kashmir. 2. Refresher Course attended at Jadavpur University, Kolkata on Literature and Thought in February 2009. 3. Interdisciplinary Refresher Course attended at UGC-HRDC, Lucknow University in January 2016. Workshops, Seminars and Conferences Attended 1. Participation in Two Day (9-10 March 2005) National Seminar on Trends in Research in English Language and Literature. Department of English, University of Jammu. 2. Participation in Two Day ELT-Workshop (18-19 July 2005) organized jointly by the Department of English, University of Kashmir and Cambridge University Press. 3. Participation in Three-Day National Seminar on Postcolonial Studies: Issues and Challenges (26-28 September 2005). Department of English, University of Kashmir. 4. Participation in 50 th All India English Teachers Conference, (13-16 January 2006) University of Lucknow.
5. Participation in First International Workshop-cum-Seminar on Technical Communication and ELT (February 27-28, 2006). Department of English, University of Lucknow. 6. Participation in Three Day National Seminar on Politics of Language and Literature (3-6 Sept, 2006), conducted by the Dept of English, University of Kashmir. 7. Participation in Three Day Workshop on Listening &Speaking (30 August-1 September 2006). Department of English, University of University and CUP. 8. Participation in Three Day ELT Workshop (20-22 November 2008) conducted by the Department of English, University of English. 9. Participation in Three Day National Seminar on Globalization and English Language and Literature (3-5 Sept, 2007) conducted by the Dept of English, University of Kashmir, and presented a paper entitled Impact of Globalization on Kashmiri Language. 10. Participation in Three Day National Seminar on Cultural Studies and Literary Discourse (16-18 March 2009) conducted by the Department of English, University of Kashmir, and presented a paper entitled Graham Greene as a Cultural Catholic. 11. Participation in Three Day National Seminar on Postcolonial Theory and Literature: Changing Prospects and Trends (20-22Oct, 2009) conducted by the Dept of English, University of Kashmir, and presented a paper entitled A Postcolonial study of Graham Greene s The Heart of the Matter. 12. Participation in State Level Two Day Workshop on Effective Research: Theory and Practice, (27-28 Oct, 2010) conducted by Govt.Degree College (Boys) Udhampur and ELTA of India. 13. Participation in Two Day National Seminar on Endangered Languages in India (21-22 January 2011) conducted by Centre of Advanced Study in Linguistics, Annamalai University, and presented a paper entitled Gradual Extinction of Kashmiri Language. 14. Participation in Two Day UGC sponsored National Seminar on English Language Teaching in India: Problems and Strategies (25-26 February 2011) conducted by the Post-Graduate Department of English, Lyallpur Khalsa College Jalandhar and presented a paper entitled A Multidisciplinary approach to Language Teaching.
15. Participation in Three Day National Seminar on English Language and Literature in India: Issues in Policy, Pedagogy and Research (13-15 March 2011), conducted by the Department of English, University of Kashmir, and presented a paper entitled Interdisciplinarity: A Revival and a Shift. 16. Participation in Two Day State Level Workshop on English Language and the Job Market (18-19 March 2011), conducted by Islamia College of Science and Commerce-Srinagar, and presented a paper entitled Journey of English Language from a luxury to necessity. 17. Participation in Three Day All India English Teacher s Conference, held at Bareilly Degree College, U.P, from 18-21 December 2011, and presented a paper entitled Literature of Pain: A Study of Curfewed Night and The Collaborator 18. Participated in Three Day International Seminar on Shahi-Hamdan (from 13-15 March 2012) conducted by Department of Islamic Studies, University of Kashmir, and presented a paper entitled Political Thought of Shahi-Hamdan and N.Machiavelli: A Study in Contrast. 19. Participated in Three Day National Seminar on Women s Writing (from 19-21 March 2012) conducted by the Department of English, University of Kashmir and presented a paper entitled Doris Lessing and Apocalypse. 20. Participated in Two Day National Conference on Politics of Pedagogy (from 9-10 April 2012) conducted by Government College for Women, M A Road Srinagar and presented a paper entitled Teaching and Learning of English Language: Easier said than Done. 21. Doris Lessing and Apocalypse. Three Day National Seminar on Women s Writing: Language, Literature and Theory. Department of English, University of Kashmir (19-21 March 2012) 22. Participated in the national seminar and presented a paper The Aesthetic Philosophy of Iqbal. Three Day National Seminar on Literature and Ethics: Paradigms and Practice. Department of English, University of Kashmir (18-20 March 2013) 23. Presented a paper (oral) in "National Seminar entitled "Revisiting Literary Classics in the Postmodern World", on "Iqbal's attitude towards the Classics", organized by Department of English, University of Kashmir, from 21-10-2015 to 22-10-2015. 24. Participated and presented a paper entitled English-Kashmiri Contact: A
Sociolinguistic Survey. First International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan on "Language Understanding and Developments in the Modern Era". Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan (7-9 October 2015). 25. Presented a paper (oral) in "3 Day National Seminar on Historiographic Metafiction: Problematizing History and Redefining Fiction", on Khurram Ali Shaffique's 2017: The Battle for Marghdeen, organized by Department of English University of Kashmir, from 20-04-2017 to 22-04-2017 26. Presented a paper (oral) in "The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Literature, Translation and Teaching and Learning of Languages", on An Applied Psychological Approach to Language teaching, organized by Pazhoheshgaran Andishmand Institute, Ahwaz, Iran, from 01-02-2018 to 02-02- 2018 27. Presented a paper (oral) in Space, Place and Landscape in Literatures of the World, on "Popularisation of Apocalypse after September 11", organized by MELOW - The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World, from 09-03-2018 to 11-03-2018 28. Presented a paper (oral) in "Literature and Environment: The Promise of Ecological Criticism", on Environmental Apocalypse: Myth Versus Reality, organized by Dept of English, University of Kashmir, from 26-03-2018 to 28-03- 2018