Muneeza Shamsie

Muneeza Shamsie

Muneeza Shamsie  is a literary critic, editor, and author. She has written the definitive work Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English (OUP, 2017) and has edited three anthologies of Pakistani English literature, including And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (Women Unlimited 2005, Feminist Press 2008). She is bibliographic representative (Pakistan) for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature; serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, the advisory boards of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Bengal Lights and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She was jury member for the 2013 DSC Prize; and Regional Chairperson (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize from 2009–2011.