Wafa Pathan
About
I am a PhD candidate in the section of English and Foreign Languages at the Department of Teacher Education. My doctoral project “Affect, Identity and Trauma in Contemporary Family Film” aims to study the correlation of affect, identity and intergenerational trauma narrative in children’s latest animated English movies produced by Disney and Pixar. The project is focused on understanding how these movies communicate child agency to end the legacy of intergenerational trauma and the affordances they carry for developing children’s emotional, linguistic and critical literacies. 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
Publications
Pathan, W. (2017). Content Analysis of English Textbooks of Secondary Education. Pakistan Journal of Society, Education, and Language (PJSEL), 3(2), 32-49.
Knowledge Transfer
2023
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Academic lecturePathan, 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
2021
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Academic lecturePathan, 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
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Academic lecturePathan, 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
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Academic lecturePathan, 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
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Academic lecturePathan, 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
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Academic lecturePathan, Wafa. (2015) Critical Discourse Analyses of a Political Speech. International Linguistics Conference , Azad Jammu Kashmir 2015-05-04 - 2015-05-05
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Academic lecturePathan, 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