Faculty Profile

Masood Raja

Title
Associate Professor
Department
English
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

Education

PhD, Florida State University, 2006.
Major: English/ Dissertation: Texts of a Nation: The Cultural, Political, and Religious Imaginary of Pakistan.
MA, Belmont University, 2002.
Major: English
BA, Belmont University, 2000.
Major: English
Diploma (International), National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan, 1991.
Major: Japanese Language
BA, Pakistan Military Academy, 1985.
Major: English, History, Political Science

Current Scheduled Teaching*

No current or future courses scheduled.

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching*

ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2022
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Spring 2022
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022
ENGL 4850.001, Literature in Context, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2022
ENGL 2331.004, World Literature, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2021
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021
ENGL 4245.001, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Fall 2021 SPOT
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021
ENGL 5950.739, Master's Thesis, Spring 2021
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2021
ENGL 5680.001, Studies in Global Literature and Culture, Spring 2021 SPOT
ENGL 2331.005, World Literature, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2020
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020
ENGL 5950.739, Master's Thesis, Fall 2020
ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Fall 2020 SPOT
ENGL 2331.001, World Literature, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2331.002, World Literature, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2440.001, Banned Books and Literary Scandals, Spring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Spring 2020
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020
ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Spring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 4900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2020
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2019
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2019
ENGL 4900.739, Special Problems, Fall 2019
ENGL 5680.001, Studies in Global Literature and Culture, Fall 2019 SPOT
ENGL 2220.001, Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Spring 2019
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2019
ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2019
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Spring 8W2 2019
ENGL 4450.002, Special Studies in a Single or Dual Author(s), Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2018
ENGL 4850.001, Literature in Context, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5680.001, Studies in Global Literature and Culture, Fall 2018 SPOT
ENGL 5680.601, Studies in Global Literature and Culture, Fall 2018 SPOT
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2018
ENGL 2440.001, Banned Books and Literary Scandals, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Spring 2018
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2018
ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Spring 2018 SPOT
ENGL 5810.601, Survey of Critical Theory, Spring 2018 SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2017
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2017
ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 5900.721, Special Problems, Fall 2017
ENGL 2220.002, Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2017
ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4850.002, Literature in Context, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2016
ENGL 5800.001, Studies in Literary Genres, Fall 2016 SPOT
ENGL 2220.004, Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the Present, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3440.001, British and Anglophone Literature 1780 to the Present, Spring 2016 SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Spring 2016
ENGL 4910.739, Special Problems, Spring 2016
ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Spring 2016 SPOT
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2015
ENGL 2500.005, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, Fall 2015 SPOT
ENGL 5900.721, Special Problems, Fall 2015
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2015
ENGL 2500.004, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, Spring 2015 Syllabus
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2014
ENGL 4900.739, Special Problems, Fall 2014
ENGL 5680.001, Studies in Global Literature and Culture, Fall 2014
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2014
ENGL 4900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2014
ENGL 4910.739, Special Problems, Spring 2014
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2014
ENGL 3924.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2014 Syllabus
WMST 3720.001, Women's Literature, Spring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2013
ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Fall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Spring 2013
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2013
ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Spring 2013
ENGL 5810.791, Survey of Critical Theory, Spring 2013
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2012
ENGL 6950.739, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2012
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2012
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Spring 2012
ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Spring 2012 Syllabus
ENGL 4900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2012
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2012
ENGL 5810.001, Survey of Critical Theory, Spring 2012
ENGL 6941.739, Directed Research, Fall 2011
ENGL 4150.001, Literary Criticism, Fall 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 5680.001, Studies in Global Literature and Culture, Fall 2011
ENGL 5810.001, Studies in Literary Criticism, Summer 5W1 2011
ENGL 2323.002, British Literature 1780 to Present, Spring 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 5900.739, Special Problems, Spring 2011
ENGL 3440.001, Studies in British Literature 1780 to the Present, Spring 2011 Syllabus
ENGL 5540.001, Studies in Twentieth Century British Literature, Fall 2010
ENGL 3913.002, Topics in World Literature, Fall 2010 Syllabus

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Publications

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book
Raja, M. A. (2016). The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America.
Raja, M. A., Stringer, H., VandeZande, Z. (2013). Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching.. Palgrave Macmillan.
Raja, M. A., Ellis, J. W., Nandi, S. (2011). The Postnational Fantasy: Nationalism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction. McFarland Press.
Raja, M. A. (1999). The Eastern Breeze. Appledot Publishers.
Book Chapter
Raja, M. A. (2016). "Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adilzada's Baazigar.". Revisiting Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics (eds. by Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer, and Rahul Gairola) Lexington, 2016.
Raja, M. A. (2014). "Ajaibāt-e-Farang: Yousuf Khan Kambal Posh's Metropolitan Journey and the Ways of Seeing the West.". Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers. Anne Richards and Iraj Omidvar, Eds.. Palgrave.
Raja, M. A. (2011). "Allama Muhammad Iqbal: Poet Philosopher and the Dangers of Appropriation.". Decolonizing the Body of Christ: Theology and Theory after Empire. Ed. Joseph Duggan.. 107-126. Palgrave.
Raja, M. A. (2010). "Muslim Modernity: Poetics, Politics, and Metaphysics.". Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Gabriele Marranci. Ed.. 99-112. Aberdeen: Springer.
Raja, M. A. (2009). "Beyond Textual Acts of Translation: Kitab At-Tawhid and the Politics of Muslim identity in British India". Decentering Translation Studies. Wakabayashi, Judy and Rita Kothari (eds.). 95-106. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Raja, M. A. (2007). "Abul A'ala Maududi: British India and the Politics of Popular Islamic Texts.". Literature of British India. S. S Towheed. Ed.. 173-191. Stuttgart:.
Raja, M. A. (2007). "Doctorow's Ragtime: Inserting Class in a Literary Discussion.". Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Kevin Cahill and Lene Johannessen. Eds. 105-116. Munster/Hamburg: LIT Verlag. http://postcolonial.net/@Backfile/_entries/14/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2005). "When You Look and Sound 'Un-American':Advice for Foreign-Born Teachers of Writing." (with three other writers). Finding our Way: A Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. Wendy Bishop and Deborah Coxwell-Teague. Eds.. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Book Review
Raja, M. A. (2013). "Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan.". 4(3), 427-428. South Asian History and Culture.
Raja, M. A. (2011). "Two and a Half Words, or How to Write Truly Pakistani Fiction." Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, Vol. 3, (2) 2011: 113-15.
Raja, M. A. (2008). "The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Hundred Years of War.". 17(2), 134-136. Digest of Middle East Studies.
Raja, M. A. (2007). "Nationalistic Rhetoric: The Last Crusade.". 28(6), 10-11. American Book Review.
Raja, M. A. (2007). "Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith & Sexuality.". 3(2), . Postcolonial Text. http://postcolonial.net/@/Backfile/_entries/64/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2004). "Education as Enforcement.". 6(1), . Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor.. http://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue6p1/raja.html
Encyclopedia Article
Raja, M. A. (2007). "Introduction to Muhammad Iqbal and Faiz Ahmad Faiz.". The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Victoria Arana, Ed.. New York: Facts on File.
Journal Article
Raja, M. A. (2014). "Pakistani English Novel and the Burden of Representation: Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.". Other. 101, . GC University. http://postcolonial.net/@/Backfile/_entries/244/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2013). Democratic Criticism and the Importance of Islamic Hermeneutics of Reading in the Twenty-First Century.. Other. 36(3), 449-464.
Raja, M. A. (2012). Exclusionary Narratives, Ambivalence, and Humanistic Studies.. Other. 1(1), 13-20.
Raja, M. A. (2011). "Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism: The Case of Pakistan.". Other. 3(1), 21-31. http://postcolonial.net/@/Backfile/_entries/232/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2011). "Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood: The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity.". Other. 39, 423-440.
Raja, M. A. (2009). "Jihad in Islam: Colonial Encounter, the Neoliberal Order, and the Muslim Subject of Resistance.". American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. 26(4), 47-71. http://postcolonial.net/@Backfile/_entries/40/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2009). "Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial Texts in the Era of Empire.". Other. 5(2), 14. http://postcolonial.net/@/Backfile/_entries/67/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2009). "The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Mirza Ghalib's Narrative of Survival.". Prose Studies. 31(1), 40-54.
Raja, M. A. (2009). "The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan.". Other. 1(2), 60-65. http://postcolonial.net/@Backfile/_entries/41/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2008). "Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, the West, and the Quest for a Modern Muslim Identity.". Other. 1(1), 33-45. http://www.asianpa.net/ijapa/v-1-08/3.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2008). "The Postcolonial Student: Learning the Ethics of Global Solidarity in an English Classroom.". Other. (82), 32-37. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri
Raja, M. A. (2007). "Joseph Conrad: Question of Racism and the Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works.". Other. 3(4), 13. http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/699/495
Raja, M. A. (2007). "The King Buzzard: Bano Qudsia's Postnational Allegory and the Nation-State.". Mosaic. 40(1), 95-110. http://postcolonial.net/@Backfile/_entries/6/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2007). "Operation Enduring Freedom and the Politics of Popular Representation.". Other. 81-90. http://www.mpac.org/publications/mpa-journal/
Raja, M. A. (2006). "Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire: The Novel and the Politics of Writing Beyond the Nation-State.". Other. 15(2), 49-60. http://postcolonial.net/@/Backfile/_entries/55/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2006). "We is All People: The Marginalized East-Indian and the Economy of Difference in Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance.. Other. 34(1), 111-130. http://postcolonial.net/@Backfile/_entries/15/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2005). "Death as a Form of Becoming: The Muslim Imagery of Death and Necropolitics.". Other. 14(2), 8-26. http://postcolonial.net/@Backfile/_entries/5/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2005). "Reading the Postcolony in the Center: V.S Naipaul's A Bend in the River.". South Asian Review. 26(1), 224-239. http://postcolonial.net/@Backfile/_entries/7/file-pdf.pdf
Monograph
Raja, M. A. (2010). Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity. Oxford UP.
Novel
Raja, M. A. (2002). Once Upon a Country. Trafford.
Personal Essay
Raja, M. A. (2002). "Walking Home on 911". Belmont Literary Journal.
Poem
Raja, M. A. (2009). "Walking Home.". 1(2), 148-9. Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. http://www.pakistaniaat.org/article/view/4353/3364
Raja, M. A. (2008). "For Benazir.". 4(2), . Postcolonial Text. http://postcolonial.net/@/Backfile/_entries/63/file-pdf.pdf
Raja, M. A. (2001). "Beyond my Fingertips.". Belmont Literary Journal.
Raja, M. A. (1999). "Mandela, ". Belmont literary Journal.
Raja, M. A. (1999). "Ward Four,". Belmont literary Journal.
Popular Press Article
Raja, M. A. (2011). The ulama and the rights of women.. Viewpoint Online. http://www.viewpointonline.net/the-ulama-and-the-rights-of-women.html
Raja, M. A. (2011). Pakistan: On minority rights.. Viewpoint Online. http://www.viewpointonline.net/pakistan-on-minority-rights.html
Raja, M. A. (2011). Zia, army & Islamization.. Viewpoint Online. http://www.viewpointonline.net/zia-the-army-and-the-islamization-project.html
Raja, M. A. (2010). "Immunitary Paradigm and its Destructive Logic in US Foreign Policy.". Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Blog. http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/17/2664/http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/17/2664/
Raja, M. A. (2010). Democracy and Critical Pedagogy.. (24), . Viewpoint Online.
Raja, M. A. (2010). The scapegoating of Muslims.. (23), . Viewpoint Online.
Raja, M. A. (2010). The khaki-green alliance. (21), . Viewpoint Online.
Raja, M. A. (2010). The Ulama and the Concept of a Wrathful God.. (20), . Viewpoint Online. http://postcolonial.net/blog/entry?id
Short Story
Raja, M. A. (2010). "On the Day of Z. A. Bhutto's Death.". 31(3), 75-88. South Asian Review.
Raja, M. A. (2008). "Of Bunnies and Firecrackers.". 29(3), 85-7. South Asian Review.
Raja, M. A. (2002). "Weera.". Belmont Literary Journal.
Raja, M. A. (1997). "An Act of Kindness?". Belmont literary Journal.
Translation or Transcription
Raja, M. A. (2010). "The King Buzzard--Bano Qudsia's Raja Gidh.". 2(1), 122-139. Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. http://www.pakistaniaat.org/article/view/4087/3814
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Engagement Index
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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