Assistant Professor
Dr. (Dr.) Sajad Hussain Wani is a gold medalist from Kashmir University. He has two doctorate degrees in Linguistics and English literature.He has been teaching at the department of Linguistics, university of Kashmir from last sixteen (16) years. He has been teaching as a guest faculty across different faculties of the Kashmir University including faculty of Law, faculty of Education and faculty of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology and IGNOU.
HE has worked on many national and international projects with reputed institutes like National Foreign Language Centre (NFLC), University of Maryland, USA and Centre for Development of Advanced Computation (C-DAC), Pune in the capacity of a Pedagogic Expert, translator and transliterator. He has been guiding research scholars in the field of Kashmiri phonology, Pashto phonology, Sociolinguistics , ELt and Computational Linguistics.
He is working as a principal investigator of a major research project sponsored by RUSA, MHRD, Govt of India entitled “ Language Contact in Kashmir: A Study of Linguistic, Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Implications of Contact between English, Urdu and Kashmiri” He is also working as Co-Principal Investigator in the major project sponsored by RUSA, MHRD, Govt of India entitled entitled “Developing an Online Trilingual Dictionary of English, Kashmiri and Urdu.”