Profile

Overview

I work in Research Services as part of the Impact Evidence and Evaluation Team at the University of Exeter.

I have recently completed my PhD on the All-India Progressive Writers' Association, based in the Department of English and Creative Writing (HASS). I obtained by BA in English at the University of Exeter in 2018 and took a break from the humanities to study international development at the LSE, where I focused on humanitarian emergencies and grassroots organising initiatives in war-zones. 

Qualifications

PhD English - University of Exeter (2023)

MSc International Development & Humanitarian Emergencies - London School of Economics and Political Science (2019)

BA English - University of Exeter (2018)

Links

• Exeter Research Profile
• Pakistan Graduate Mentorship Programme
• The Tasavvur Collective

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Research

Research interests

My thesis focused on the Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA) and charted a 40 year history of the PWA’s activities in both India & Pakistan. It is, I believe, the first cross-border literary study of its kind, & has incorporated women’s contributions to the movement as well as socio-political conditions that impacted the PWA’s literature.

My research took into account the changing landscape of the Indian subcontinent from the 1930s to the 1970s, particularly the impact that the Partition of 1947 had on the literature, culture, and socio-political ideologies of the countries involved. My primary goal was to look at the Progressives as a holistic entity and trace the overlapping themes within their work via cross-genre analysis. My research material was mostly in Urdu and Hindi, and I also looked at other texts that are not as popular or widely-read when thinking about the work of the Progressives.

Research projects

(forthcoming book chapter) "Changing Narratives of Dissent: Angaaray (1932-33) and the Lihaaf Trials (1944-46).” in Angarey and the Progressive Upsurge in Urdu and Hindi Literature and the Performative Arts. Expected publication 2024.

(forthcoming special issue) Writing Muslim Women in South Asia, special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, volume 46, issue 2: 2024. (as co-editor)

Fatima Naveed (10th March 2023) Contextualizing Literary Censorship in Pakistan: The Legacy of Colonial Penal Codes, Discourse, March 2023, 77-79.

Fatima Naveed (26th April 2021) Connected Classrooms #2: April 2021 Workshop, The Education Incubator Blog.

Fatima Naveed; Nandini Chatterjee; Gajendra Singh (25th March 2021) Connected Classrooms #1: A Project Across Borders, The Education Incubator Blog.

Fatima Naveed (28th August 2020) Review: Ghazalnama by Maaz Bin Bilal & The Sixth River by Fikr Taunsvi (translated by Maaz Bin Bilal), Wasafiri, Wasafiri, 35:3, 78-99.

Fatima Naveed, Dr. Samia Latif, Dr. Jharna Kumbang (1st July 2019) The War of Ideology or The Ideology of War?, Better Health For All: the award-winning blog of the Faculty of Public Health.

Research networks

In 2022, I co-founded The Tasavvur Collective, alongside PGRs at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St. Andrews. We are a consortium of early career researchers interested in the social, historical and literary representation of South Asian Muslims in cultural productions.

Since 2023, I volunteer with the Oxford Pakistan Programme and Project EduAccess as a mentor, an initiative to help Pakistani students apply to universities in the United Kingdom for graduate studies (Masters and PhD), focusing on those disadvantaged by social position, ethnicity, economic ability and/or geography.

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