Prof Ayaz assumes charge as IIU VP
Islamabad
February 2, 2021
Islamabad: Professor Dr Ayaz Afsar assumed his duties on Monday as vice-president (academics) at the International Islamic University (IIU). Earlier, Prof Afsar was serving as Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Literature.
He has also served as Chairman Department of English for 3 years. He also is the founder and Editor of Journal of Contemporary Poetics of the Department of English. Prof Afsar did his M.Phil in Applied Linguistics (2000) and PhD in English Literature (2004) from the University of Manchester in the UK. He did post-doc from the University of Manchester (2012) and another post-doc from the University of Birmingham in the UK (2014).
Posted : 2021-01-17 14:30 By Kwon Mee-yoo
Poet Choi Jeong-ryePoet Choi Jeong-rye passed away Saturday at the age of 66. Known as one of Korea s most exacting and innovative poets, Choi wrote prose poems drawing strange qualities out of everyday experiences.
The poet was diagnosed with a rare blood disease last summer and died from cerebral hemorrhage while fighting the disease.
Born in 1955 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, Choi studied Korean poetry at Korea University and earned her doctoral degree there.
She made her literary debut through Hyeondae-sihak (Contemporary Poetics) magazine in 1990 and published poetry collections such as A Forest of Bamboo in My Ear (1994), Tigers in the Sunlight (2001), Crimson Field (2001), Lebanese Emotion (2006), Kangaroo is Kangaroo I am I (2011) and Ditch is Dragon s Hometown (2015).