Introduction:

Ms. Ayesha Akram is currently serving as a Lecturer (BPS 18) at the Department of English, University of Education, Township Campus Lahore. She is also enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Management and Technology Lahore. Her main research interest lies in postcolonial literature, film, adaptation Studies, public speaking and media discourse.

Ms. Akram has been involved in a number of academic and non-collegiate activities and projects including the launch of the first successful IELTS program in Township Campus in collaboration with the British Council Lahore; and working as a team member to launch the U.S Department of State funded "ACCESS" and "English Works!" projects for D.G. Khan and Faisalabad campuses, etc. Ms. Akram has also previously worked with the "US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs" as a Head Instructor in its benchmark project "English Access Microscholarship Program" for South Punjab region.

Ms. Akram holds the honor of being one of the only two candidates selected from Punjab for participation in the Junior Faculty Exchange Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S Department of State at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States in May-June 2019. University of Education Lahore was among the only five universities of Pakistan represented in the United States on this fellowship program. Ms. Akram is also the recipient of HEC's PhD Research Fellowship for University of Exeter, United Kingdom (2019/2020).