About Waqas Khwaja
MICRO-BIO
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Scholar, poet, translator, editor, Professor of English, Postcolonial Literature & Creative Writing, Agnes Scott College, USA
EXPERIENCE
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Agnes Scott College
- Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English
- English
- Present
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Agnes Scott College
- Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English
- English
- Agnes Scott College, Department of English
- July 1995 to Present
EDUCATION
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Emory University
- Ph.D. (English Literature)
- July 1992 to May 1995
Specialization in the Victorian Period. My dissertation, titled "The Aesthetics of Civilized Life: Interplay Between Artistic Design and Truth of Experience in Thackeray's Later Fiction," was focused on W. M. Thackeray's fictional reimagining of his life in three of his late novels, "Pendennis," "The Newcomes," and "Philip."
DISCIPLINES
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Language Interpretation And Translation
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English Literature (British And Commonwealth)
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Humanities/Humanistic Studies
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Comparative Literature
Interests
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Postcolonial Literature
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British Literature
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Digital Humanities
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Humanities
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Translation
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Poetry
Languages
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Punjabi
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French
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Urdu
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English