{"id":16,"date":"2021-05-28T15:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T14:37:04","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim Women&#8217;s Popular Fiction is a network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It bring together researchers, students, teachers, activists, readers, authors, and publishers to talk about under-studied popular and genre texts (including romance, chick lit, comics, graphic novels, detective fiction, Young Adult, fantasy, autobiography, memoir, and science fiction) written by Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p>The Network steering group is made up of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/english\/burge-amy.aspx\">Dr Amy Burge<\/a> (Principal Investigator, University of Birmingham, UK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dramyburge?lang=en\">@dramyburge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiu.edu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Aroosa_kanwal_050421.pdf\">Dr Aroosa Kanwal<\/a> (Co-Investigator, International Islamic University, Pakistan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aroosakanwal74?lang=en\">@aroosakanwal74<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/lucinda-newns\">Dr Lucinda Newns<\/a> (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucindanewns?lang=en\">@LucindaNewns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozyegin.edu.tr\/en\/faculty\/simaimsir\">Dr \u015eima \u0130msir<\/a> (Ko\u00e7 University, Turkey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simaimsir\">@simaimsir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.english.uga.edu\/directory\/people\/esra-mirze-santesso\">Dr Esra Santesso<\/a> (University of Georgia, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim Women&#8217;s Popular Fiction is a network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It bring together researchers, students, teachers, activists, readers, authors, and publishers to talk about under-studied popular and genre texts (including romance, chick lit, comics, graphic novels, detective fiction, Young Adult, fantasy, autobiography, memoir, and science fiction) written by Muslim women. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"About Us\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/about-us\/#more-16\" aria-label=\"More on About Us\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1579,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-16","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Muslim Women&#8217;s Popular Fiction is a network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 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The Network steering group is made up of: Dr Amy Burge (Principal Investigator, University of Birmingham, UK) @dramyburge Dr Aroosa Kanwal (Co-Investigator, International Islamic University, Pakistan) @aroosakanwal74 Dr Lucinda Newns (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) @LucindaNewns Dr \u015eima \u0130msir (Ko\u00e7 University, Turkey) @simaimsir Dr Esra Santesso&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"","author_info_v2":{"name":"Amy Burge","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/author\/burgea\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/mwpf-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}