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Wafa Pathan

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Wafa Pathan

PhD Candidate, Children’s Literature Education And Research
Department of Teacher Education
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences
Department of Language and Literature

wafa.pathan@ntnu.no
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I am a PhD candidate in the Section of English and Foreign Languages within the Department of Teacher Education. My doctoral research, titled "Exploring Diversity and Intergenerational Trauma in Disney and Disney-Pixar Animated Family Films: An Educational Tool to Foster Children's Critical Media Literacy," investigates the interplay of affect, identity, and intergenerational trauma narratives in contemporary animated family films produced by Disney and Disney-Pixar. The study explores how these narratives depict the transmission, endurance, and healing of trauma, and how they are interwoven with representations of culture and diverse identities. The research also considers the pedagogical potential of such films to support the development of children's emotional awareness, linguistic competence, and critical media literacy within English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts. The project is in cooperation with the research group CLEAR: Children’s Literature Education and Research and it is supervised by Dr Jade Dillon and Dr Alyssa Lowery.

Prior to working at NTNU, I worked as a foreign language teacher as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Oregon, USA and have served at a few Pakistani universities as a Lecturer of English, linguistics and literature for five years. In my academic background, I hold a BS in English Literature, a Master in Applied Linguistics and an International Master in Children’s Literature, Media & Culture. In my Master's thesis, I examined award-winning refugee-themed picturebooks published since 2011 and their utilization in developing children’s critical literacies. The thesis also contained an artistic element of creating a picturebook in collaboration with  Julia Cardinale (illustrator & researcher) to incorporate the themes of authenticity, agency, historical narrative and diverse representation of refugees. 

Research

  • CLEAR: Children’s Literature Education And Research
  • Challenging Picturebooks in Education: Rethinking Language and Literature Learning
  • Nord Research Group for Children’s Literature in English Language Teaching, Nord University

Association for Research on Children’s Literature in English in Norway

The Association for Research on Children’s Literature in English in Norway (ARCLEN) is a national association that is dedicated to 1) innovative research in and 2) pedagogical practices of children’s and young adult literature in English in Norway.

International Research Society for Children’s Literature

The International Research Society for Children's Literature is an international scholarly organization established to support and promote research in the field of children's literature. It includes members from over forty countries worldwide.

Publications

Pathan, W. (2017). Content Analysis of English Textbooks of Secondary Education. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education, and Language (PJSEL), 3(2), 32-49.

 

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2024

  • Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Recommended Reads: Children in Zones of Conflict (The Journey by Francesca Sanna). Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELEjournal )
    Book review
  • Lowery, Alyssa Christine Magee; Bland, Janice Mary; Minslow, Sarah; Verma, Bakhti; Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Recommended Reads: Children in Zones of Conflict. Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELEjournal )
    Editorial

Journal publications

  • Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Recommended Reads: Children in Zones of Conflict (The Journey by Francesca Sanna). Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELEjournal )
    Book review
  • Lowery, Alyssa Christine Magee; Bland, Janice Mary; Minslow, Sarah; Verma, Bakhti; Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Recommended Reads: Children in Zones of Conflict. Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELEjournal )
    Editorial

Outreach

Margaret Wild: HCAA Nominee by IBBY UK

"This HCAA nominee spotlight is courtesy of Maria Teresa Salcedo Montero and Wafa Pathan, in partnership with Evelyn Arizpe and the Erasmus Mundus programme, the International Master’s in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture (IMCLMC)."

Recommended Reads: Children in Zones of Conflict

The review aims to provide an overview of the picturebook in the refugee narrative genre and its pedagogical affordances to utilize in the classroom setting.

2024

  • Poster
    Pathan, Wafa. (2024) “Stories matter initiative, 2020”: Disney & Pixar diversifying children’s films via the stories of Migration. IBBY IBBY 39th International Congress , Trieste 2024-08-28 - 2024-09-01
  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Disney and Pixar on Diverse Intergenerational Trauma Narratives: An educational tool to foster children's critical multicultural education. University of Antwerp Antwerp Summer School 2024-07-03 -
  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Disney and Pixar on Diverse Intergenerational Trauma Narratives: A source of multiculturalism in EFL classrooms. Nord University Reading for in-depth English Learning: Texts in and beyond the classroom , Bodø 2024-05-06 - 2024-05-08
  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Disney and Pixar on Diverse Intergenerational Trauma Narratives . Norwegian University of Science and Technology DAGSSEMINAR OM BARNELITTERATUR , Trondheim 2024-05-28 -
  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2024) Problematizing the act of 'giving voice': how we position refugee children in books and within our society? . Norwegian University of Science and Technology MGLU4106 - Literature from the English-speaking World in the Classroom (1-7): Theoretical and Didactical Perspectives , Trondheim 2024-03-22 -

2023

  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2023) Mahol Sahelian: “A Pakistani Gendered Trilogy on Climate Change”. The University of California, Santa Barbara & Stanford University, USA The 26th Biennial International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) 2023 Congress: Ecologies of Childhood. , Digital 2023-08-12 - 2023-08-17
  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2023) Bilingual Picturebooks as “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors” . Norwegian University of Science and Technology MGLU2105 - English 1 (1-7) subject 2 , Trondheim 2023-09-06 -

2021

  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2021) Lali’s two-flavoured ice cream - Picturebook. University of British Columbia Fresh from the Fight: Heroes, Tricksters, & Villains in Children's YA Literature and Culture! , Vancouver (Digital) 2021-07-02 - 2021-07-04

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa; Memon, Shumaila. (2017) Urdu sexist jokes as a representation of Pakistani women . The University of Sindh The First National Conference on Language and Literature , Jamshoro 2017-11-09 - 2017-11-10

2016

  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2016) Minority Rights and Secondary English Books of Baluchistan. University of Education The 4th International Conference, Education in Pakistan: Connecting Research and Practice Across Contexts , Lahore 2016-03-24 - 2016-03-26

2015

  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2015) Critical Discourse Analyses of a Political Speech. International Linguistics Conference , Azad Jammu Kashmir 2015-05-04 - 2015-05-05
  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2015) Zeenat: A Feminist Study of a Classic Young Adult Novel. Air University Emerging Trends of Researching Language, Linguistics & Literature , Islamabad 2015-12-15 - 2015-12-16
  • Academic lecture
    Pathan, Wafa. (2015) English Language Learning Strategies and their Applicability in Pakistani Context . kinnaird College The 1st International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan , Lahore 2015-10-07 - 2015-10-09

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