Dr. Muhammad Safdar
Associate Professor
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Dr. Muhammad Safdar is educated and trained in multicultural environments at Universities in Pakistan, UK, USA, and China. He is Associate Professor at the Department of English Literature, Faculty of Languages and Literature, University of Central Punjab, Lahore. He served as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the University of Management and Technology (UMT) Sialkot Campus for over nine years. He completed his Ph.D. in English (Literature) from the University of Gujrat (UoG), Pakistan. In addition to doing a Master, MPhil, and Ph.D. in English Literature, he also did a Master in Business Administration from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. He won and availed a fully-funded scholarship from US State Department for the prestigious professional development training course of International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in 2019. He has also completed a post-PhD fellowship at the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), China, to integrate digital humanities in literary studies.
His research on intersectional gender subjectivities is published in peer-reviewed and impact factor (Q1) international journals and books published by SAGE, Routledge, Wiley, Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature), and IGI Global. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Men and Masculinities and Journal of Gender Studies are amongst the many international journals in which he has extensively published. UMT awarded him the Best Research Award 2019. He has also guest-edited (as the lead editor) a special issue Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Muslim Women’s English Literature of the journal Intersections (Australia).
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Intersections: Genders and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (with special responsibilities for South Asia) indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. He has also worked as an international peer reviewer with Routledge, Sage, and IGI Global.
His research interests include gender, feminism, post/decoloniality, intersectional gender subjectivity, and critical theory.
Further details about his bio and research can be accessed at ORCID: 0000-0002-3927-3781
| Post-PhD Fellowship | Integration of Digital Humanities in Literary Studies | Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), China | 2025 |
| Ph.D | English Literature | University of Gujrat | 2022 |
| M.Phil | English Literature Literature | University of Gujrat | 2017 |
| MBA | Marketing | Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK | 2011 |
| M.A | English Language and Literature | The University of Punjab | 2005 |
| IVLP | Transition to Online Education | State Department, USA | 2019 |
| Associate Professor | University of Central Punjab | Jan 2025 – Present |
| Assistant Professor | University of Central Punjab, Lahore | March 2023 – Dec 2024 |
| Assistant Professor | University of Management and Technology (UMT) | Dec 2022 – Feb 2023 |
| Lecturer | University of Management and Technology (UMT) | Feb 2014 – Dec 2022 |
| 1 | Safdar, M. & Usman, G.M. Gender in Hamid’s Fiction: A Reflection on the Cultural Transformation Brewing among Pakistani Women. Asian Women. June 2018, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 89-109. HEC Category X. SJR Q2. JCR 0.231, Indexed in SCOPUS and WoS.Online |
| 2 | Safdar, M. & Yasmin, M. Muslim female subjectivity in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: Disrupting the binary of the religious and the secular in Pakistan. 2022. Vol. 31, Issue 6, pp. 701-711. Journal of Gender Studies. Routledge. HEC Category W. SJR Q1. JCR 2.539. Indexed in SCOPUS and WoS. Online |
| 3 | Safdar, M. & Yasmin, M. COVID‐19: A threat to educated Muslim women's negotiated identity in Pakistan. Gender, Work & Organization. 2020. Vol. 27, Issue 5, pp. 683-694. WILEY. HEC Category W. SJR Q1. JCR 3.465. Indexed in SCOPUS and WoS. Online |
| 4 | Safdar, M. & Yasmin, M. English for specific purpose through facilitated and nonfacilitated MOOCs: An analysis of the learners' perspectives. Computer Applications in Engineering Education. 2021. Vol. 29, Issue 4, pp. 786-794. WILEY. HEC Category W. SJR Q1. JCR 1.532. Indexed SCOPUS and WoS. Online |
| 5 | Safdar, M. Beyond the Binary of the Religious and the Secular: Mobility-shaped Agency of Muslim Women in Kamila Shamsie’s Fiction. Pakistan Social Sciences Review. 2021. Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 414-424. HEC Category Y. Online |
| 6 | Safdar, M. & Ahmad, R. Derivational Morphology in Urdu: A Lexical Morphology Approach. Linguistics and Literature Review. 2021. Vol. 7, Issue 1. HEC Category Y. Online |
| 7 | Safdar, M. Gender and Environment: Predicament of Tribal Women of Pakistan in Jamil Ahmad’s The Wandering Falcon. Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2020 (35-55), 4(1,2). HEC Category Y. Online |
| 8 | Safdar, M. & Yasmin, M. Redefining Pakistani Muslim Wifehood in Hamid’s and Shamsie’s Fiction. 2022. Cogent: Arts and Humanities. Vol. 8, Issue 1. Routledge. HEC Category X. SJR Q2. Indexed in SCOPUUS and WoS. Online |
| 9 | . Safdar, M. & Yasmin, M. Repositioning Sexuality of Spatially Mobile Muslim Women in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses. 2022. National Identities. Routledge. HEC Category W. SJR Q1. Indexed in SCOPUS and WoS. Online |
| 10 | Book Review. Khalid, A. & Safdar, M. Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective politics in Pakistan. Shenila Khoja-Moolji. 2021. Intersections (Australia),Issue 46. HEC Category X. SJR Q1. Indexed in SCOPUS and WoS. Online |
| 11 | Safdar, M. & Yasmin, M. (2023) Love and marriage: Reimagining Muslim female subjectivity in Kamala Shamsie's Salt and Saffron. Cultural Dynamics. SAGE. HJRS (W). Indexed in Scopus and WoS. |
| 12 | Afzal, M. H., Iqbal, H. M. Z. and Safdar, M. (2023). Performing bodies as elephants in the room: A postcolonial queer approach to Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. Intersections (Australia), Issue 50. (Scopus-indexed, Q3) |
| 13 | Sarwar, A. & Safdar, M. (2024). Solidifying interstitial space (third gender) for hijra/khawajasara through Islamic feminist hermeneutics: A trans inclusive approach. Contemporary Islam. (Springer Nature). online |
| 14 | Safdar, M. (2024). Farizan's If You Could Be Mine: Home, Citizenship, and Homosexuality. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Issue 51, 49-60. Australian National University, Australia. |
| 15 | Safdar, M. & Asl, Moussa Pouraya (2024). (Editorial) Gender, Sexuality, and Islam in Muslim Women's English Literature. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Issue 51, 1-4. Australian National University, Australia. |
| 16 | Safdar, M. (2025). Unbearable Muslim masculinity in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire. Men and Masculinities. SAGE. IF 3.3, SSCI, Q1 Online |
| 17 | Safdar, M. & Sarwar, A. (2025). Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire. Routledge. IF, A&HCI, Q1 Online |
| 1 | Yasmin, M. & Safdar, M. Negotiated Gender Subjectivity of Muslim Women and Sustainability in Pakistan. 2022. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature). Under process to be indexed in SCOPUS. |
| 2 | Safdar, M. & Yasmine, M. Spatial Mobility, Pakistani Muslim Female Subjectivity, and Third space between the Secular and the Religious in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses. 2022. Gender, Place and Identity of South Asian Women. IGI Global. Under process to be indexed in SCOPUS |