Sadia was born in Libya (Africa), later came to Pakistan (Asia) and she is currently living and studying in Switzerland (Europe). Her stay in these three different continents enabled her to envision the “dearest dream”: doing a PhD. She is passionate about teaching and has a vast experience in the field of teaching.
She completed her Bachelor of Arts and later on also had one year additional graduate diploma in Linguistics. In Master of Arts, she studied English Literature as her Major and English Language Teaching (E.L.T.) as her Minor. Afterwards she obtained her M.Phil in Literatures in English from University of the Punjab, with the thesis on “Images of Writing in Derek Walcott’s Poetry.” She has taught in various prestigious colleges and universities in Lahore, before receiving a permanent faculty position in University of Central Punjab (www.ucp.edu.pk) where she has taught subjects as English language, American and English literature, Business Communication and Spoken English.
Dr Jeffrey H. Gray, Associate Professor, Department of English Seton Hall University (New Jersey, USA) and Prof Robert Hammer from Columbia University (New York, USA) guided and encouraged her during M.Phil dissertation. She received an unconditional offer of PhD under the supervision of Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli (a renowned scholar on the Caribbean Literature) from the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, Essex University (www.essex.ac.uk) and got another offer from the Department of English, Bristol University (www.bristol.ac.uk) under Supervision of Dr. Andrew Bennett (Head of Department) .
She has attended different workshops and seminars related to literature to polish her own ideas and has met leading writers and scholars. She says “I met Prof Dr Fawzia Afzal Khan (Montclair State University, USA) who was magically and melodiously lucid and kept on motivating me even on emails.”
Her research interests include postcolonial literature and theory. She is also interested in the contemporary Indian, British and North American literature.