Study of Art History of Prose Forms of Urdu (AECC)

Dr. Mushtaq Hussain Magloo, Known in literary circles by his pen name mushtaq haider holds master’s degree in Urdu from the University of Kashmir and did his his M.Phil and Ph.D under the supervision of (Late) Professor Majeed Muzmar a renowned Urdu scholar of his times at the University of Kashmir. Dr. Mushtaq possesses Degree in Education and Diplomas in IT and Urdu Journalism as well, and has worked as an Urdu journalist in some reputed news papers before joining the University of Kashmir as a faculty in Urdu. He currently teaches at the Department of Urdu, University of Kashmir, and has been a guest faculty in the Department of Education, the University of Kashmir. His basic research interests include Urdu Poetry and Urdu Fiction with a major focus on Critical appreciation of the content using modern tools of criticism. He has four books and more than 40 research papers and book chapters to his credit in addition of two text book series’ (Each comprised of 8 parts) that has been included in the curriculum of more than three hundred institutions in the country. Dr. Mushtaq is on the editorial board of some prestigious journals and has been an invited speaker at various literary meetings/conferences/seminars at regional and national level. He is a member of many literary bodies like J&K Urdu Akademi, The Jammu and Kashmir Fiction Writers’ Guild and All India University Urdu Teachers’ Association. He is currently a part of Bharatvani-- A National Project on Digitization of Indian Languages at (CIIL) Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, Government of India. He is also Principal investigator of a project entitled “A brief History of Urdu Short Story in Kashmir” sponsored by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, New Delhi.