Shazia Sadafteaches Human Rights and Social Justice in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of London, UK, and a second doctoral degree in Postcolonial Studies from Western University, Canada, with a primary interest in the field of human rights literature. Her research focus lies in the intersectional areas of War on Terror Studies, human rights discourse, and post-9/11 anglophone literature. She has authored chapters inNarratives of the War on Terror: Global Perspectives(2020),Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives(2019),TheRoutledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing(2018), andMapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises(2015). She has had several articles published in theJournal of Postcolonial Writing,Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies,South Asian History and Culture,ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, and theEuropean Journal of English Studies.

Aroosa Kanwalis Assistant Professor in English Literature and Chairperson, Department of English at the International Islamic University, Pakistan. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK (2018-2020). She is the author ofThe Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing(2019) andRethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11(2015). Her monographRethinking Identitiesreceived the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015. She is the editor of theJournal of Contemporary Poetics, housed in the Department of English, International Islamic University (IIUI). She has published chapters and articles inImagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora(2014), edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert;Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts(2012), edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe;Journal of Gender Studies,Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies,Journal of Commonwealth Literature, andJournal of International Women's Studies.