School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

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Qualifications
BA (UWL)
MSc (Aberystwyth University)
Email address
724547@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
An allegorical perspective of nature and oceanic wilderness in the novels of Uzma Aslam Khan and MG Vassanji: Postcolonial environmental landscapes and their influence on migration and transnationalism.
Internal Supervisors
Dr Keya Anjaria & Dr Anandi Rao

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Farzana Qureshi is an Arts and Humanities Librarian and a PhD researcher. 

She has a BA Humanities in English Literature with Modern History and an MSc in Library and Information Studies. She was a co-investigator for the Two Centuries of Indian Print, a digital collaboration with the British Library. She has worked as an International Courier for the Everlasting Flame exhibition held at the National Museum, New Delhi and was also an outreach coordinator with Project Dastaan, a peacebuilding Partition initiative. Farzana has co-written a chapter for an edited volume on liberatory Librarianship and social justice work, published by the American Library Association.

Currently Farzana serves as the co-chair of SOAS Library’s Decolonisation Operational Working Group. Farzana also sits on a Librarians advisory board (LAB) for the digital Publishing platform AM.

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  • Literature
  • Anthropology
  • Memory
  • Migration and Transnationalism
  • Film and imagined homelands 
  • Ethnography

 

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