Current PhD Students

Sauleha Kamal

Thesis Title:

Can Words Save the World? The Contemporary Pakistani Novel, Human Rights and the Global Literary Marketplace

Supervisor:

Professor Claire Chambers

Description:

Sauleha Kamal is a Pakistani-American PhD candidate and Overseas Research Fellow researching post-9/11 South Asian narratives in the context of human rights and politics. She holds an MPhil (Criticism & Culture) from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Chevening & Cambridge Trust scholar, and a BA (Economics & Social History and English with a Creative Writing concentration) from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Her scholarly work, essays and fiction have appeared in various places including Postcolonial Text, The Atlantic and Catapult. She was a writer-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York in November and December 2019. She also consults on international development projects in her free time and volunteers time for her community as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

Twitter: @Sauliloquy1

Email: sauleha.kamal@york.ac.uk