Furrukh Khan has been with LUMS since 2001. He has a PhD in Postcolonial Studies from University of Kent at Canterbury, where he taught for two years prior to coming to LUMS. He has also taught English as a Foreign Language in the UK during the summers. His research interests include the Partition of India, Postcolonial Literature, Shakespeare and Oral History. His publications have appeared among others in Index on Censorship, AngloFiles and The International Journal of Punjab Studies as well as a chapter in The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa (Edited by R.K. Dhawan and Novy Kapadia) and in Gender, Conflict and Migration (Edited by Navnita Chadha Behera). Furrukh has also published a case study: Empowerment through Representation: Aurat Foundation's Initiative in Local Governance. Managing NGOs in Developing Countries (Volume Three: Gender Challenges). Edited by Dawood Ghaznavi and Bashir Ahmad Khan. Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2006. Furrukh was selected as the South Asia Fellow by Social Science Research Council in 2003. He was hosted by The Center for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi as the ASIA Fellow, funded by a grant from the Asian Scholarship Foundation in 2006. He was selected as the British Academy/ESRC Visiting Fellow from South Asia and the Middle East and affiliated with University of Manchester in 2007. Furrukh has also directed Stories of the Broken Self, a documentary on the Pakistani women's narratives of the 1947 Partition.
Crossing Imaginary Boundaries: Partition And Temporal Post-Colonial Identities in Bapsi Sidhwa s Ice-Candy-Man. AngloFiles, Vol. 99, Nov. 1996, pp.21-33
A Legacy of Violence. Index on Censorship, 6:1997. Pp.81-83
The Outer Circles: Women and Children in the Postcolonial Islamic World. Periodica Islamica, June 97, Pg. 693-704.
History of West African Literature in Annotated Bibliography For English Studies. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, 1996. (with Professor Lyn Innes)
"Speaking Violence: Pakistani Women s Narratives of Partition." Gender, Conflict and Migration. Edited by Navnita Chadha Behera. New Delhi, Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2006. Pp. 97-115 Paper presented at "Women and Migration in Asia" conference organized by Developing Countries Research Centre, University of New Delhi, India, 10th - 13th December, 2003.
The Bride and the Imagined Community in The novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. Edited by R.K. Dhawan and Novy Kapadia. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1996.
Empowerment through Representation: Aurat Foundation s Initiative in Local Governance. Managing NGOs in Developing Countries (Volume Three: Gender Challenges). Edited by Dawood Ghaznavi and Bashir Ahmad Khan. Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 33-53
Book Review of Writing India 1757-1990: The Literature of British India, Bart Moore-Gilbert, ed. in Contemporary South Asia, 6:1, March 1997.
"The Others Within: Status of Women in Pakistani Ideology." The Other Self: Conflict, Confusion or Compromise. National Commission on the Status of Women. 2008. Islamabad. Pp. 125-135.
A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan. (Book Review). Feminist Review # 84, 2006. Pp. 149-151.
Forgetting the Remembered Self: Partition and the Ambivalence of Pakistani Identity Paper presented at The Tenth International Conference of the Association for Literature of Region and Nation, August 2004, MMU Cheshire, U.K., 3rd- 6th August, 2004
Dis-Locating the "Other": Migration and Communalism in Indian Novels of Partition. Paper presented at "Communalism & Migration: South Asians in Diaspora" conference at University of Edinburgh, 19th - 20th June, 1997
Re-calling Traumas: Memory, Violence and the Oral Narratives of Partition. Paper presented at British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference. Uni. Of Manchester, 18th April, 1998
When Women Talk: Private Pain, Public Space and Articulation of Critical Memory. Paper presented at "Politics of Language" conference organized by Simorgh, Lahore, Pakistan, 24th January, 2003
The "Others" Within: Status of Women in Pakistani Ideology. Paper presented at the Third South Asian Human Rights and Peace Studies Orientation Course, Kathmandu, Nepal, 3rd - 17th August, 2002.
Breaking Taboos: The Deconstruction of the "Sacred" and the "Profane" in the Urdu Literature of Partition. Paper presented at British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference at Bath College of Higher Education on 11th April, 1997
The Violent Constructions: Women and the Postcolonial Predicament in Pakistani Literature. Paper presented at the British Association of Pakistan Studies, Lake District, 23rd-25th June, 1997
The Enemies Within: Muslim Women in Khushwant Singh s Train to Pakistan. Paper presented at "India: Fifty Years After Independence" conference at University of Barcelona, Spain, 28th-30th September, 1997
Speaking with the Enemy: Surviving Partition Interviews in India and the United Kingdom. Paper presented at "Partition: Reflections Memories Dreams", a conference organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Lahore 19-20th May, 2008
The Threat of "Savage" Sexuality in The Tempest. Paper presented at Lahore Arts Forum on 30th April, 2002