Shirin Zubair

Shirin Zubair is an independent researcher from Pakistan. After earning her PhD from Cardiff University, UK titled: Women’s Literacies in a Rural Pakistani Community: An Ethnographic Study, she completed her postdoctoral project at the University of Texas, US where she researched on Pakistani Muslim women’s uses of literacy in multiple languages, access to higher education, and the subsequent shifts in identity formation. She has held several prestigious fellowships including two Fulbright fellowships to teach and research in the United States; an un-availed research fellowship at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies , UK as well as senior research positions in Germany, France and Norway. Her work has been published by leading international publishers including John Hopkins, Routledge, Sage as well as American University of Beirut Press and Bielefeld University Press. Her publications are featured in: Feminist Formations; Women's Studies International Forum; Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World; Journal of South Asian Development; South Asia Research; Discourse Studies.
Currently based at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, she is writing a pivot for Cambridge Elements Series on Language, Gender & Sexuality while working on her project titled: Feminist Movements in Pakistan: Discourses, Framing and Contestations, on contemporary feminist movements in Pakistan looking at the role of language and semiotics in constructing and deconstructing the stereotypical discourses of Muslim femininities.