Dr. Nasir Abbas Nayyar teaches Urdu at Punjab University, Oriental College Lahore. Dr. Nayyar’s research interests include modern and postmodern literary theory, linguistics, modern Urdu literature and postcolonialism. He has published over a dozen books in Urdu. He is the author of the first book on the postcolonial study of Urdu language and literature, published by the Oxford University Press, Karachi.