Dr. Zakir Hussain

Academic Biography

Dr. Zakir Hussain is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ladakh, India. He currently serves as the Coordinator of the Department of English at the Kargil Campus. He received his PhD in postcolonial studies from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India in January 2023. Dr. Hussain works on the cultural expression of marginalised minorities in postcolonial literary representations. His research interests include identity politics, postcolonial literature, resistance literature, historical fiction, and Eurocentrism. His book, Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature, has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing. He has published research articles on postcolonialism and historiography in relation to religion and the cultural dialogue/conflict between the West and Islam. He has published research articles in journals such as English Academy Review (Q1), Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (Q1), Ars Aeterna (Q3), Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies (Q3), a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Q1), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Q1), Journal of Intercultural Studies (Q1), Cultural Studies (Q1), Pertanika: Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities (Q1), etc.