Amina Yaqin

Amina Yaqin is Professor in World and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani women's poetry (Anthem 2022) and co-author with Peter Morey of Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 911(Harvard University Press, 2011). Her publications include the co-edited volumes, Contesting Islamophobia: media, politics and culture (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury 2019); Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions (Palgrave MacMillan 2018); Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing (Routledge 2012). Her research is interdisciplinary and engages with contemporary contexts of Muslim life as well as the politics of culture in Pakistan where she grew up. She has written numerous articles for peer reviewed journals and her chapters have appeared in interdisciplinary books.

She is Co-I of the AHRC funded Empathy, Narrative and Cultural Values project focus on health and education in South Asian Muslim communities in the West Midlands. Previously she has been a collaborating partner on two major projects, the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded International Research Network on ‘Framing Muslims’ and the Research Councils UK funded ‘Muslims, Trust and Cultural Dialogue’. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Pakistan Studies and is a book series co-editor for Multicultural Textualities published by Manchester University Press. Her commentary and interviews have been published by the BBC, SkyNews, EuroNews, TRT World, Indus News, The Guardian, The National UAE, Daily Pioneer, The Friday Times, The British Film Institute.