Faculty & Staff

Dr. Hena Ahmad
Professor of English

Spring 2026 office hours
TR: 1:30 - 3:00, 4:30 - 5:30 PM
MTWR: 7:00 - 8:30 PM office hours on Zoom.
And other times by appointment.

I would recommend setting office-hour appointments in advance by email. I am available to meet in person in McClain 301 or via Zoom. Please email me for Zoom link.

Personal Pronouns: she, her, hers

BA, University of Jammu and Kashmir; MA, University of Kashmir; PhD, University of Massachusetts.

Dr. Ahmad began teaching at Truman in 1998. She specializes in, and usually teaches Postcolonial Lit; Women Writers; Asian Lit; International Lit in English; Twentieth-Century World Lit; Restoration and 18th Century British Lit; Postcolonial Studies in Lit & Culture; South Asian Lits; Ethnic Studies; Women’s Studies; and African Lits. Her current research interests are Postnational and Postindependent Feminism in South Asian and African Women Writers and in Diasporic Writers in English.

"Kashmir, India; University of Kashmir; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; reading and writing"