In the inaugural episode of Books@HSS, Nauman Faizi hosts Maryam Wasif Khan where they talk about her book, 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮? 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴.

Maryam Wasif Khan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at LUMS University, Lahore. Her first book, 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮? 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴 (Fordham University Press, 2021), argues for a renewed interrogation of the European scholarly discipline and cultural practice, orientalism, and its influence on modern vernacular literatures. Her second project revisits her undergraduate studies in literature at Princeton and engages with her present teaching to think through the possibilities contained in canonical Western texts once they are dislocated from the Euro-American academy.

Nauman Faizi is Assistant Professor of Religion at LUMS University, Lahore. He is the author of 𝘎𝘰𝘥, 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧: 𝘔𝘶𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘐𝘲𝘣𝘢𝘭 '𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). His research interests include philosophy of religion, philosophical and scriptural hermeneutics, semiotics, and questions at the interface of religion and modernity.