Dr. Javaria Farooqui
@JavariaFarooqui
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PhD from @UTAS_ | Research on popular romance studies, popular culture, Pakistani television dramas, & fandoms. Heaps of posts on flowers, books, & Lahore.
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My monograph, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency," has a cover now!!!
#fanstudies
#popularromance
#romancebooks
#bookcommunity
#RomanceReaders
#bookhistory
#gender
#media
#race
#ethnicity
#postcolonialism
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#auratMarch
research- rant 🧵
My friend's paper on "aurat march" media discourse got desk rejection from local journal of a private university because they can't consider "controversial topic." When asked what's controversial about it, the highly qualified editor aka desi dude
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Old books show in Anarkali is my forever fascination. Lined up on the road, outside closed shuttered doors of banks & and other businesses, heaps of used books & pirated editions of new titles keep attracting readers. So many tales!
#Lahore
#bookhistory
#readingcommunity
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In English, we call it "Academic Writing," but in Urdu, we say;
In English we call it "Unrequited Love" but in Urdu we say;
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So, my little monograph is going into production at Bloomsbury Academic. There will be so many posts from this account about it that some of you may end up muting me, but for now, sharing the front matter!
#mybook
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refused to answer that. Had to share this because there are so many out there who believe that there is nothing wrong with our patriarchal mind set. We can't even publish research on Paksitani women!
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Procrastinating and bringing up blasts from the recent past: book selfies from 2021 and 2022. Facncy bookshops are cool, but exploring old books on foot paths, going over their browned and torn pages, and haggling over all prices will always be my favourite bookish activity.
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Sunshine, post-morning-class.
Academia feels way less harrowing on sprawling campuses!!!
#workplace
#Lahore
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Feeling grateful, anxious, & apprehensive while looking at the final proofs of my upcoming publication with Bloomsbury Academic! Sharing, again, because it is the niche heart thumping academic moment, vibe, syndrome, etc.
#fanstudies
#fandom
#romance
#AcademicChatter
#readers
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Made this painting of the little lawn, next to the main entrance of our home, a year after Papa left this world. Painted the space as it used to be years ago, before all the plants and trees were carefully selected and added by him. Just felt like sharing it now, in his memory.
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Apologies for spamming everyone's timelines, but I'm so loving how Lahore is vibing yellow with Amaltas in May!
#Lahore
💛
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End of the semester tea with lovely students of Pakistani literature in English. There were many fun discussions over the few months & we realised the need to have a lot more talks/research on this emerging discipline.
#PakistaniLiterature
|
#COMSATS
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Going to moderate a panel in "The International Conference on Modern Trends in Applied Linguistics," organised by my brilliant colleagues of Linguistics at COMSATS.
[Yes, one gets to have much better photos when one isn't organising conferences]
#conference
#linguistics
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A picturesque campus brings in all the glamour that is necessary to gloss over the precariousness of academia.
#campus
#academia
#MondayMood
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Semester highlight: teaching "Pakistani Literature." Authors writing in English have done so much work & it is time that academia acknowledges it as a rich area of literary studies. Looking forward to learning nuances of some amazing texts with my students.
#reading
#Literature
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Finally got the print copy of the book that has my chapter in it, & paid 3k as tax amount to my government, just to receive it because...no clue why!!!
#publication
#happilyannoyed
#JaneAusten
#RomanceReaders
#English
#language
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Proud supervisor moment!
My three brilliant students successfully completed their research degree today. Their research is on the reception of the Bridgerton series in Pakistan, street theatre, and representation of women in Paksitani dramas.
#AcademicChatter
#June2023
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Very excited to share my write-up, published in the latest issue of
@The_ACU
Review, which considers the perceptions of English literary studies & its precarious future as an academic discipline in Pakistan. Love the accompanying illustration!
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In the end, we're left with memories only. My lovely bright student brought this cake for me recently & told me that I made a difference for her. She had big plans. Sharing beacuse she just passed away today & it is so hard to process this photo now.
Rest in peace, Syeda Iqra🖤
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The never-ending charm of old book shops, colour-coded displays of genre romance, and the smell of old books🤎
#Bookstore
#bookstoread
#oldbooks
#bibliosmia
#Lahore
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Breakfast with BS English students, tea, attempts of chilling out in 40°C, and a new profile picture!
#Mondayvibes
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Desk aesthetics: essential for surviving writing days in fiery June.
#amwriting
#AcademicChatter
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At some point, I may stop the flower/tree posting spree, but not now, when my campus is going through its postcard pretty picturesque phase!
#Lahore
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📌
My doctoral research was on the culture of reading Anglophone popular romance fiction in postcolonial Pakistan & my scholarly publications are listed here:
I write for Images sometimes:
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& rant on national educational issues!
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#NewProfilePic
Friend shared this, and I got to see how I drool over books in an Old Book Shop🤎
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Things that always help me with writing: fragrance, coffee, & desk aesthetics. Today, the earthen scent of Motia lessened the dread of looming deadlines. Perhaps everything will be fine!
#academiclife
#amwriting
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#NewProfilePic
because it was one of the loveliest research-y days. Blessed to have kind souls around me, supportive friends, family, & adorable students (who take cool photos too).
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Coffee, clouds, flowers, and cool breeze. My part of
#Lahore
is vining with peace and colours today. Manifesting the same for the whole city and country 🩵
#CoffeeTime
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Yesterday, there was an adorable and purely coincidental moment of
#twinning
with my first semester student of BS English, Hira, who asked for a photo together later 💜
Early morning classes are not always supposed to be boring. Sharing because
#wholesomecontent
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Four shades of bougainvillea at home. These flowers feel so close to my heart. Somehow, the vibrant climbers stand for warmth, parents, childhood, Lahore, and spring!!!
#SundayMorning
#Bougainvillea
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The campus is literally and metaphorically burning bright today. Summer has started summering in Lahore, and I already feel so ready to collapse and relapse, etc🤒
#Lahore
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The walk from the parking lot to my office is filled with plays of shadows and light, birds, squirrels, and a lot of tripping over broken stones. Life, and academia!
#workplace
#thoughts
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I don't respond to mean folks usually, but this is about my students, so I have to tell you that each one of them is more knowledgeable, well spoken, and heaps more worthy than any faceless, rude person. They'll go places while you will sulk away on Twitter🏆
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Looking at my school-hood photo, taken during girl-guides' camp at my beautiful alam mater, Crescent Model. It's funny how that time feels so prehistoric, yet so yesterday. All those ropes, knots, and super silly songs are so tangibly alive in memory.
#SchoolLife
#memories
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Duty bound as a Ravian to show off the magical space and place of GCU at the slightest prompt ✨️
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Went out for a walk &came back to the news that my abstract for a special issue on the theme of memory in postcolonial PK has been accepted. Publication will take 1.5 years minimum, if all goes well, but there is joy, hope, and flowers for now!
#AcademicWriting
#publication
-to-be
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Campus coffee, freezing winds, and marking woes.
[Sharing photos without any logic kinda of mad weather day]
#WINTER
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My write-up: Pakistani dramas "have a long history of masking toxic masculinity as love...The glory of the hero willing to let go of his wealth and status for the woman he loves, successfully glosses over the questions of consent and clear harassment."
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Perfect weather for marking assignments in a stuffy office after a splashing insect-ful walk on lovely pavements!
#rain
#Lahore
#waterwater
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Exhausting and chaotic time of the semester... but one wide expanse of yellow orange glory makes everything worthwhile !
Pre rain, post classes
#academicselfie
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The Neayr-o-Naiyr experience of Lahore has recently been so lit with the firey abundance of Sumbal trees. Managed to capture some fire and some afternoon peace of the Canal Road today.
#Lahore
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Dumped all my study notes meticulously taken in graudate classes of English literature & only kept one notebook,as relic of
#studentlife
. Words recorded on yellowing pages remind the present deadline evader that she used to be so dilgent once upon a time!
#memories
#cleaningDesks
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Love notes from ten years old, who leaves them rather stealthily on my desk as the teens tsk-tsk all such activities. Her notes are the best motivation ever❤️
#WritingCommunity
#lovenotes
#AcademicChatter
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Very excited to talk about talk about Shahid Imtiaz's "Amorphous Lahore: Colonial and Postcolonial." I will discuss "Dina Nath and Rudyard Kipling's Colonial Lahore," one of the most interesting chapters in the book. Many thanks to English literary society of Punjab University!
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Islamabad always feels so cool, peaceful, and fascinating to me. The only not-Lahore place I knew for a very long time in my life!
#Islamabad
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Re-Reading stuff for final revisions, supported by raat ki rani fragrance and coffee.
Taking deep breaths and getting ready to submit the final book draft....today!!!
#amwriting
#AcademicChatter
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Found a beautiful old copy of Qurratulain Haider's novel "Aag ka Darya" in a relative's home today. I read its English translated version, "River of Fire," back in school. Looking forward to reading the original Urdu one now.
#Urdu
#Literature
#amreading
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#unpopularopinion
Even as a bona fide Paksitani drama fan, I find the macho hero of
#TereBin
so cringe. Actually urging the love of his life to jump off the rooftop to prove her chastity/fidelity etc? Start giving dramas special awards for finding romance in most toxic settings!
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A walk to the library can fix most mood slumps. Looking at old favourites, and sighing is very therapeutic.
#books
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#libraries
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#oldFavourites
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Woke up to the video of a 22 years old Pakistani woman being strangled to death by her brother while her father watched & someone filmed it all. Each one of us is just one grateful step away from being killed. Grateful for colours & life, while they last.
#Gratitude
#WomensWorlds
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Looking forward to presenting my research (virtually) at
#IASPR23
on 30th June. Can't wait to talk about the fascinating community of Pakistani reader-fans of popular fiction set in Regency-era England.
#conference
#research
#readers
#RegencyRomance
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that anytime is a good time to quote Austen:
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Department of English, University of the Punjab!
Each life on each campus that we ever attend will always be a part of us in a variety of ways.
#campuslife
#punjabuniversity
#englishdepartment
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Tried to stop myself from posting more pictures here, atleast today, but how not to share the brilliant colours and the amazing glow of the post-hailstorm Lahore?
Picture taken at 2:30 PM. Location: COMSATS Lahore Campus.
#Lahore
#landscapes
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"Stories with Oil Stains" is a super delightful read. When I started working on women's popular fiction in Pakistan, this book by Kiran Nazir Ahmed and an article by Kamran Asdar Ali were the only two sources available on the vast sea of mostly ignored fiction.
#WomensWritings
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Today's episode of "Things that make academic life worthwhile and won't appear on your CV" features cherry blossoms on campus!!! I'm terribly in love with the absolute glorious pinks 💕
#cherryblossoms
#AcademicChatter
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Sharing because Google made a collage, and my sweetheart Zia Kirmani is stunning ❤️
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March, the season of workshops and conferences. Working behind the scenes for the International Peace Building Conference at
#comsatsuniversity
with my ever and over efficient pal
@AmnaNZK
#Lahore
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When you reluctantly go back to work on Monday and the tree outside your office window is showing off its beautiful leaves and you feel so good looking at the shades of red...
#MondayMotivation
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My brilliant scholars,
@ana_hosseini
&
@tayyabahassan2
, successfully defended their research today. Their projects, on Rumi's place in Pakistani consumerist culture & on the popularity of Hoover's fiction in Lahore, have just passed external review.
#AcademicChatter
#happiness
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Just sitting around, looking at yesterday's book haul from Readings, and signing with bookish joy. Can't read anything before completing the writing deadlines, but all these new 📚 will be there when I'm done with adulting!
#books
and
#happiness
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This picture shows a mug of tea, night jasmine in a jar, and desk clutter. However, it does not show the consistent headache and the deadline anguish of the researcher.
#amwriting
#AcademicChatter
#AcWriMo
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Started working on a research article, right from scratch. Looking forward to all the coffee/tea consumption, followed by the cool academic frustration of finding a home for it!
#AcademicChatter
#amwriting
#MondayMood
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Love it when potpourri and new flowers coexist. A very March thing.
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Wheat crop on campus! Such fun to pass by this amazingness daily, on my way to the office.
#CampusLife
#wheat
#FridayMotivation
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Time passes by, things change, and the world at Kinnaird remains pretty much the same. Even when it is an official one, a visit to KCW always evokes lovely memories, bringing reminders of summer strolls, gossip, & bonds of friendship.
#campus
#Kinnaird
#nostalgia
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#NewProfilePic
Because the start of the spring semester is so vibrant, with lots of colours in the air💙
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Loving how roads have little pools of red and purple flowers these days. Hope. And spring. And an inexplicable calm.
#Campus
#Lahore
#SpringVibes
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The play of shadows on roads in the afternoon, few old trees in the middle of the city, and electric wires lolling around happily... my
#Lahore
is love ❤️
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Once upon a time!
[I believe that I'm one of 'the 'most photographed as child' millennials. Papa loved taking photos & Mama loved dressing me up. Heaps of photos, no repeat outfits]
#Parents
❤️
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Thinking about this paper weight that has moved places with me for over twenty years. Got it as a birthday gift from a friend who isn't in contact anymore. The history of objects can be so interesting at times!
#RandomThoughts
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#NewProfilePic
...because what else can one do while fretting over impending deadlines and not writing!!!
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Love the filtered sunshine and citrus fresh morning feelings. Weather is changing in Lahore, or am I delusional?
#Lahore
#mondaythoughts
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Happiness today was picking mulberries, staining hands in purple, and receiving chocolates along with the books that my student Mahekamil borrowed to write her thesis on!
#AcademicChatter
#books
#mulberries
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Citrus fragrance, mixing up with the dewy feels of rain, filled up our tiny patch of green today. One of those increasingly rare days in Lahore when you can step out of the house and breathe goodness!!
#Lahore
#fragrance
#rain
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Thursday writing tip: all theories are read better after a cup of tea and a walk outside.
#Writinglife
#Motivation
#amwriting
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Two articles accepted for publication, a pitch and an abstract approved, and there is a bit of sun outside...
Time to feel marginally better/hesitantly good in a very chaotic world!!!
#academicChatter
#GoodVibes
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Wish I could capture the scent, the shine, and the omnipresent glory of night jasmine, aka the night queen, aka raat ki raani ✨️
#plants
#night
#intoxicating
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This lovely tree with its fiery pink flowers has now become the highlight of campus life for me. Intriguing, inspiring, standing alone in its pink glory 🩷
#workplace
#inspiration
#tree
#plantsmakepeoplehappy
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Mama's notebook-cookbook from 1978. It has notes of her masters of zoology research on channa punctata and recipes of cakes from the cooking classes she took. So difficult to reach her level of accomplishments!
#cookbook
#studynotes
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