Literary Preservation and Innovation with Professor Waqas Khwaja (Conversation‪)‬ RawPods: Creative Thought & Expression (Poetry | Literature | Thought)

Preserving our literary heritage & encouraging innovation and new creative output. How should we be approaching this?

As a platform that works toward promoting creative thought and expression, these questions have come to occupy us of late.

Luckily, we had the opportunity to hear the informed views of Dr. Waqas Khwaja, whose brilliance and accomplishments have us awestruck.

Guest speaker: Dr. Waqas Khwaja 
is the Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English at Agnes Scott College where he teaches courses in Postcolonial literature, 18th &  19th-century British literature, and Creative Writing. He obtained his Ph.D. from Emory University, specializing in Victorian fiction. He has published four collections of poetry and a literary travelogue. In addition to three edited anthologies of Pakistani literature, he has served on projects as an editor for translations and other literary projects. His poems and translations have appeared in US, South Asian, European, African, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern publications, literary journals, and anthologies.

Moderator and Host: Muniba Mahmud - Team Rawanee

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