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	Raja graduated with a Masters in literature from [[Belmont University]] in 2002,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.belmont.edu/gradenglish/courses_offered_in_the_m.a_/index.html \|title=Courses Offered in the M.A. – Belmont University \|publisher=Belmont.edu \|date= \|accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> where he was awarded the Graduate Writing Award and at Florida State he was awarded the Davis Award for Best Graduate Student and Davis Award for best dissertation in 2005 and 2006, respectively.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://faculty.unt.edu/editprofile.php?pid=2314&onlyview=1 \|title=Raja, Masood Ashraf (Faculty Profile) \|publisher=Faculty.unt.edu \|date= \|accessdate=9 June 2011}}</ref>		Raja graduated with a Masters in literature from [[Belmont University]] in 2002,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.belmont.edu/gradenglish/courses_offered_in_the_m.a_/index.html \|title=Courses Offered in the M.A. – Belmont University \|publisher=Belmont.edu \|date= \|accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> where he was awarded the Graduate Writing Award and at Florida State he was awarded the Davis Award for Best Graduate Student and Davis Award for best dissertation in 2005 and 2006, respectively.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://faculty.unt.edu/editprofile.php?pid=2314&onlyview=1 \|title=Raja, Masood Ashraf (Faculty Profile) \|publisher=Faculty.unt.edu \|date= \|accessdate=9 June 2011}}</ref>

	Raja earned his PhD in postcolonial studies from [[Florida State University]] in 2006, where he studied with [[Robin Truth Goodman]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06132006-133645/ \|title=Title page for ETD etd-06132006-133645 \|publisher=Etd.lib.fsu.edu \|date=12 May 2006 \|accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref><ref>http://www.english.fsu.edu/alumni/alumni.php</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/rgoodman.htm \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=31 May 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918041430/http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/rgoodman.htm \|archive-date=18 September 2016 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		Raja earned his PhD in postcolonial studies from [[Florida State University]] in 2006, where he studied with [[Robin Truth Goodman]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06132006-133645/ \|title=Title page for ETD etd-06132006-133645 \|publisher=Etd.lib.fsu.edu \|date=12 May 2006 \|accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.english.fsu.edu/alumni/alumni.php \|title=The English Department at Florida State University \|website=www.english.fsu.edu \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060712072512/http://english.fsu.edu/alumni/alumni.php \|archive-date=2006-07-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/rgoodman.htm \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=31 May 2011 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918041430/http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/rgoodman.htm \|archive-date=18 September 2016 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==
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	Having won a million dollar grant from the US State Department, Raja is the Director of a partnership program between the University of North Texas and the [[National University of Modern Languages]] in Islamabad.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Raja Wins Million Dollar Grant\|url=http://english.unt.edu/news/2012/oct/raja-wins-million-dollar-grant\|publisher=UNT Department of English\|accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref>		Having won a million dollar grant from the US State Department, Raja is the Director of a partnership program between the University of North Texas and the [[National University of Modern Languages]] in Islamabad.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Raja Wins Million Dollar Grant\|url=http://english.unt.edu/news/2012/oct/raja-wins-million-dollar-grant\|publisher=UNT Department of English\|accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref>

	Raja continues to contribute his thoughts on issues of [[social justice]], [[Political aspects of Islam\|political Islam]], and issues of human rights.<ref>http://www.charlijane.com/profile_Dr_Masood_Ashraf_Raja.htm</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.belmontvision.com.moses.com/news/2008/09/05/humanities-symposium-addresses-debate-discourse.1929/ \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=6 June 2011 \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110905081614/http://www.belmontvision.com.moses.com/news/2008/09/05/humanities-symposium-addresses-debate-discourse.1929/ \|archive-date=5 September 2011 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		Raja continues to contribute his thoughts on issues of [[social justice]], [[Political aspects of Islam\|political Islam]], and issues of human rights.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.charlijane.com/profile_Dr_Masood_Ashraf_Raja.htm \|title=Profile Dr Masood Ashraf Raja Public Speaker \|website=www.charlijane.com \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219183317/http://www.charlijane.com/profile_Dr_Masood_Ashraf_Raja.htm \|archive-date=2011-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.belmontvision.com.moses.com/news/2008/09/05/humanities-symposium-addresses-debate-discourse.1929/ \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=6 June 2011 \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110905081614/http://www.belmontvision.com.moses.com/news/2008/09/05/humanities-symposium-addresses-debate-discourse.1929/ \|archive-date=5 September 2011 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

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| birth_date = 1965
| birth_place = [[Rawalpindi]], Pakistan
| nationality = American
| education = Doctor of Philosophy
| alma_mater = [[Florida State]]
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| employer = [[University of North Texas]]
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| notable_works = ''ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives.'' (Routledge, 2019)
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'''Masood Ashraf Raja''' ([[Urdu]]: مسعود اشرف راجہ) is an associate professor of [[postcolonial literature]] and theory at the [[University of North Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Reflections of Newly Promoted and Tenured Faculty|url=http://facultysuccess.unt.edu/reflections-newly-promoted-and-tenured-faculty|accessdate=20 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://faculty.unt.edu/editprofile.php?pid=2314&onlyview=1 |title=Raja, Masood Ashraf (Faculty Profile) |publisher=Faculty.unt.edu |date= |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> He is also the editor of ''[[Pakistaniaat|Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies]]'', an open access journal that he founded in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pakistaniaat.org |title=A Journal of Pakistan Studies |publisher=Pakistaniaat |date= |accessdate=7 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413143445/http://pakistaniaat.org/ |archive-date=13 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Open Access World|url=http://oaworld.org|accessdate=16 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Monica Esquibel |url=http://www.gradstudies.fsu.edu/News-Recognitions/In-the-News/English-Department-alum-combats-Pakistan-stereotypes |title=English Department alum combats Pakistan stereotypes / In the News / News & Recognitions / The Graduate School / FSU – Florida State University The Graduate School |publisher=Gradstudies.fsu.edu |date=16 September 2009 |accessdate=7 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723215313/http://www.gradstudies.fsu.edu/News-Recognitions/In-the-News/English-Department-alum-combats-Pakistan-stereotypes |archive-date=23 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Raja moved to the United States in 1996,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Masood-A.-Raja/e/B001K8UVCS/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 |title=Masood A. Raja: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> after ten years of service in the [[Pakistan Army]] as an [[Infantry]] officer.<ref>{{cite web|author=Reflections by an ex-army officer by Masood Raja |url=http://www.viewpointonline.net/reflections-by-an-ex-army-officer.html |title=Reflections by an ex-army officer | ColumnNews |publisher=Viewpointonline.net |date= |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref>

Raja graduated with a Masters in literature from [[Belmont University]] in 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.belmont.edu/gradenglish/courses_offered_in_the_m.a_/index.html |title=Courses Offered in the M.A. – Belmont University |publisher=Belmont.edu |date= |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> where he was awarded the Graduate Writing Award and at Florida State he was awarded the Davis Award for Best Graduate Student and Davis Award for best dissertation in 2005 and 2006, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://faculty.unt.edu/editprofile.php?pid=2314&onlyview=1 |title=Raja, Masood Ashraf (Faculty Profile) |publisher=Faculty.unt.edu |date= |accessdate=9 June 2011}}</ref>

Raja earned his PhD in postcolonial studies from [[Florida State University]] in 2006, where he studied with [[Robin Truth Goodman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06132006-133645/ |title=Title page for ETD etd-06132006-133645 |publisher=Etd.lib.fsu.edu |date=12 May 2006 |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref><ref>http://www.english.fsu.edu/alumni/alumni.php</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/rgoodman.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=31 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918041430/http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/rgoodman.htm |archive-date=18 September 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Career==
Besides teaching and writing about issues of postcoloniality, globalisation, and political Islam, Raja also actively participates in the public debates<ref>{{cite web|last=Wicket |first=Sticky| url=http://www.usariseup.com/sticky-wicket-questions/political-apathy-crosses-all-racial-ethnic-barriers-obama-president-nation-n |title=Political Apathy Crosses all Racial & Ethnic Barriers: Obama, President of this Nation, not just Minority Groups |publisher=USA Rise Up|date= |accessdate=10 June 2011}}</ref> through his public writing on his two blogs<ref>http://postcolonial.net and http://masoodraja.com</ref> as well as other popular and scholarly websites.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shafr.org/author/masoodraja/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722033915/http://www.shafr.org/author/masoodraja/ |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>http://www.viewpointonline.net/reflections-by-an-ex-army-officer.html</ref>

Raja's [[monograph]], ''Constructing Pakistan'', (Oxford University Press, 2010),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/Pakistan/?view=usa&ci=9780195478112 |title=Oxford University Press: Constructing Pakistan: Masood Ashraf Raja |publisher=Oup.com |date= |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> is an interesting explanation of the rise of Muslim national political identity during the [[British Raj]] and offers an innovative explanation of the genesis of the idea of Pakistan. Raja has published extensively in his area of study and on general academic topics in various academic journals and anthologies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://postcolonial.net/about/?id=2|title=Postcolonial Studies|website=postcolonial.net|accessdate=7 December 2017}}</ref> Raja is a member of the Advisory Committee (2009–12) of PMLA,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mla.org/comm_pmla_adv |title=PMLA Advisory Committee |publisher=Mla.org |date=2 July 2010 |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> the premier journal of literature and languages and was elected to a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the South Asian Studies Group, [[Modern Language Association]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mla.org/dgroupexeccomm |title=Discussion Group Executive Committees |publisher=Mla.org |date=10 January 2011 |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> Besides his academic and popular writings, Raja has actively presented his views at academic conferences<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sdpi.org/sdpi-old/13thsdc/abstracts/religious_diversity.html |title=SDPI Conference|accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> as well as through public talks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.masoodraja.com/expertise/|title=Expertise - Masood Raja|first=Masood|last=Raja|publisher=|accessdate=7 December 2017}}</ref>

Raja has contributed his views on various issues related to the Islamic world and Pakistan to newspapers such as the ''[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]]'' on a story on Osama bin Laden<ref>{{cite web|last=Batheja |first=Aman |url=http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/05/3053726/north-texas-pakistanis-cheer-action.html |title=North Texas Pakistanis cheer action against bin Laden | Dallas | News from Fort Worth, D |publisher=Star-telegram.com |date=5 May 2011 |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> and to [[Al Jazeera English|Aljazeera English]] on a story about the [[Blasphemy law in Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Listening Post |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2011/03/2011318124919880942.html |title=What is all the buzz about Japan? – Listening Post |publisher=Al Jazeera English |date=18 March 2011 |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref>

Having won a million dollar grant from the US State Department, Raja is the Director of a partnership program between the University of North Texas and the [[National University of Modern Languages]] in Islamabad.<ref>{{cite web|title=Raja Wins Million Dollar Grant|url=http://english.unt.edu/news/2012/oct/raja-wins-million-dollar-grant|publisher=UNT Department of English|accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref>

Raja continues to contribute his thoughts on issues of [[social justice]], [[Political aspects of Islam|political Islam]], and issues of human rights.<ref>http://www.charlijane.com/profile_Dr_Masood_Ashraf_Raja.htm</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.belmontvision.com.moses.com/news/2008/09/05/humanities-symposium-addresses-debate-discourse.1929/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 June 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110905081614/http://www.belmontvision.com.moses.com/news/2008/09/05/humanities-symposium-addresses-debate-discourse.1929/ |archive-date=5 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Publications==
Raja has published extensively on issues related to postcolonial studies, political Islam, and about Pakistan and the region. Besides his academic work, Raja also writes poetry<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/07-05-99/nash_music-notes.html/ | title=Spot On| publisher=Nashville Scene|date=5 July 1999|accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> and fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://postcolonial.net/about/?id=2 |title=Postcolonial Studies |publisher=Postcolonial.net |date=30 January 2011 |accessdate=7 June 2011}}</ref> Raja's most recent book ''ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives'' provides a thorough discussion of the ideological roots of ISIS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/ISIS-Ideology-Symbolics-and-Counter-Narratives-1st-Edition/Raja/p/book/9781138486188|title=ISIS:Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives|last1=Raja|first1=Masood|website=Routledge|accessdate=12 February 2019}}</ref>

*'' ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives'' . Routledge, 2019.
*'' The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America''. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016.
*''Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching''. (Co-edited with hillary Stringer and Zach VandeZande) Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013.
*''The Postnational Fantasy: Nationalism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction''. (Co-edited with Jason W. Ellis and Swaralipi Nandi). McFarland Press, 2011.
*''Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity 1857-1947''. Oxford University Press, 2010.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110413143445/http://pakistaniaat.org/ Pakistaniaat: A journal of Pakistan Studies, Editor]
* [http://postcolonial.net/ Postcolonial Space]
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