Jaleel Akhtar

Who is Jaleel Akhtar?

Jaleel Akhtar is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Central Panjab, Lahore. He completed his DPhil from the University of Sussex under the supervision of Maria Lauret and Douglas Haynes in 2015, and MA in Creative and Critical Writing (from Sussex) under the supervision of Nicholas Royle. He is the author of two books Dismemberment in the Fiction of Toni Morrison (nominated for the Toni Morrison Book Award in 2015) and Toni Morrison and the New Black: Reading God Help the Child (Routledge 2018). He has also published essays ̶ most notable one for the Oxford University Press journal Contemporary Women’s Writing, 2018 and an upcoming for the journal of Southern Studies by Northwestern State University Press.