Ms. Fatima Ghazali completed her bachelor’s and master’s in English literature from Patna University, where she was awarded the Merit Certificate for being a rank-holder. After completing her master’s, she qualified the UGC National Eligibility Test in English, with a percentile score of 99.56. She has taught English as a second language, both at secondary school and undergraduate levels.
Ms. Ghazali enjoys writing. She wrote a research article titled “British Imperialism and the Woman: A Feminist Reading of the Native and the White Female”, which was published in Patna University Students’ Journal Iris. Her Letters to the Editor have been published in a leading national newspaper, The Indian Express. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in English literature on the topic of the postcolonial Muslim woman and the relationship between their literary representations and colonial narratives.
As a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Ms. Ghazali is teaching Hindi and Urdu at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She believes that learning new languages opens numerous avenues and makes one more informed as well as more empathetic. Therefore, she feels honored to act as the conduit between not just two different languages, but also two separate worlds. The U.S. is a melting pot of cultures from around the world and Ms. Ghazali hopes to learn and experience myriad new things during her time there as an FLTA.