Dr. Nyla Ali Khan is a professor at Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, OK, and taught as a visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Formerly, she was a professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature and her Masters in Postcolonial Literature and Theory at the University of Oklahoma.

Author of several published articles, book reviews and editorials, she edited Parchment of Kashmir, a collection of essays on Jammu and Kashmir, and written four books, including The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism and Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between Indian and Pakistan. Several of her articles have appeared in academic journals, newspapers and magazines in the United States and South Asia.

They focus heavily on the political issues and strife of her homeland, Jammu and Kashmir, India, where she visits frequently. She has reading competence in Arabic and Hindi, and is fluent in Urdu and Kashmiri.

Dr. Khan has presented lectures on Kashmir at several universities, including American University, Columbia University and New York University. She is an Oklahoma Humanities Scholar, presenting public talks statewide, including women’s correctional facilities, where she focuses on education and women’s empowerment. She has also been interviewed by many major media outlets, including NPR and Voice of America.