Dr. Masood Raja is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Theory in the University of North Texas. He moved from Pakistan to America in 1996 after serving Pakistan Army as Military Officer for a decade. He earned his Master’s from Belmont University and PhD in Postcolonial Literature from Florida State University.

Mr. Raja hopes to foster a better understanding between the people of his primary culture and the rest of the world through his writings, teaching assignments and other intellectual changes. His publications include Political Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity 1857-1947 (Oxford UP 2010) and several others. He is the founder and editor of an open access journal Pakistaniat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.