Muhammad Farooq, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English
Department of English

Muhammad Farooq is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English at Seton Hall University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on 20th- and 21st-century British, Postcolonial, and Global Anglophone literature. His research interests focus on postcolonial studies, specifically on necropolitics, memory, and spatial literary studies. With extensive teaching and research experience, and diverse cultural background, Farooq engages students at Seton Hall in learning how to think and connect apparently dissimilar notions, practices, and cultures. Farooq’s passion for exploring the complexities of literature and its multifaceted relationship with society drives his approach to research, teaching, and learning.

Farooq is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled, The Production of Necrospace: Literary Imaginary and Ungrievable Lives in the Af-Pak Frontier that examines a wide range of literary texts–from the British colonial era to Af-Pak anglophone literary works and Pashto literature in translation–and argues that literature plays a significant role in conceptualizing the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier as a necrogeography [space of death].