Hariz Aftab

About

I am a Professor (Assistant) of English (Communication Skills and Verbal Ability) at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. My teaching focuses on academic and professional communication, equipping students with advanced skills in research writing, rhetoric, and workplace discourse.

My research is situated in Environmental Humanities, where I examine the intersections of Romanticism, climate change, ecoanxiety, and literary psychology. I am particularly interested in how environmental crises reshape imagination, subjectivity, and narrative form. My broader scholarly engagements include literary theory, translation studies, and the evolving role of AI in literary pedagogy.

Beyond academia, I write as a columnist and engage in creative writing — poetry and short fiction as well as visual arts — painting and photography.

Employment

• Lovely Professional University Assistant Professor
  2026 - Present
• Alpha Institute of Education and Research Teaching Assistant and Curriculum Designer
  2019 - 2019

Education

• Lovely Professional University PhD
  2021 - 2026
• University of Jammu Master of Arts
  2017 - 2019
• Government Degree College Doda Bachelor of Science
  2014 - 2017

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (15)

• Repressive apparatuses and biopolitical logic: A dystopian critique of Stephen King’s the Institute
  Humanities and Social Sciences Letters 2026 DOI: 10.18488/73.v14i3.5093
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• From Prediction to Personalization
  2026 DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-1325-2.ch001
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• Between Code and Critique: Artificial Intelligence as an Interpretive Tool in English Literary Studies
  Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of Literary Criticism: Analyzing English Literature through Machine Learning and Computational Textual Analysis 2026
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• Consent, control and code: A data feminist critique of Warcross series
  Humanities and Social Sciences Letters 2026 DOI: 10.18488/73.v14i1.4669
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• Teaching Literature in the Age of AI: Towards a Posthuman Pedagogy
  AI and the English Classroom: Innovations in Language and Literary Studies 2026
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• Affective ecology and the emotional archive of climate collapse in Lord Byron’s Darkness
  International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies 2025 DOI: 10.55493/5019.v14i3.5630
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• Eco-Anxiety in the Romantic Visions of Lord Byron and P.B. Shelley: A Literary and Environmental Perspective
  Forum for Linguistic Studies 2025 DOI: 10.30564/fls.v7i5.9291
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• Reading Byron’s “Darkness” and Rasa Javidani’s “Tūfān” [Storm] as Cross-cultural Connective Catastrophe Narratives
  BODHI International Multilingual Conference (Hybrid) on Transcending Borders: Exploring Language, Literature and Culture Across World Languages 2025
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• Climatoglossia: Exploring the Linguistic Impact of Tambora Eruption in Byron and Shelley’s Poetry
  BODHI Hybrid International Conference on Eco-Narratives: Exploring the Intersections of Environment and Literary Studies 2025
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• Echoes od Catastrophe: Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley as Ecodoom Pessimists
  BODHI International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science 2025
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