Beaconhouse National University (BNU)

Prof. Dr. Amra Raza holds the distinction of being the first PhD in English from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of the Punjab, Lahore. She has served as both the Director of the Institute of English Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities AT PU. Currently, Dr. Raza is the Chair of the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) and Country Head of Englishers (LLL) International. Her academic expertise includes South Asian Poetry, Shakespearean Studies, Post-colonial Drama and Fiction, Creative Writing, TESL, ELT, and Linguistics. She has been awarded the prestigious national Jane Townsend Poetry Prize and serves as the Editor of Spaces and Places: An Anthology of Young Creative Writers from Pakistan and Co-editor of Voices and Visions: Young Writers from Pakistan. Her research articles and poems have been published both nationally and internationally, and she has held the position of Chief Editor for the Journal of Research in Humanities, IES. Dr. Raza has also secured HEC grants for the In-service Training of English Language Teachers in Punjab and has conducted HEC-sponsored workshops, including "Teaching Composition Writing Strategies" and "Using Indigenous Literature for English Language Instruction at the Undergraduate Level" at the University of the Punjab,Lahore. She participated in an HEC-funded workshop on the ELTR Phase II Research Project, focusing on CALL in ELT. Additionally, she is a recipient of the International Erasmus+ Grant, completing her training at USAK University in Turkey.

PhD in English – First PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore.