Summary

I joined University of Nevada, Reno in 2018 as Assistant Professor of w88 casino games and Global Anglophone Literature. Before arriving at the University, I taught at Princeton University and Williams College. I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In the University of Nevada, Reno Department of w88 casino games, I have taught courses on Literatures of Migration and Exile; Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Globalization; Orientalism; Representations of Asia in Western Media; and Global Cities in Literature and Film. I regularly teach our introductory course on Literary Theory and Criticism. I also teach in the Core Humanities program in the "Modern World" sequence.

My research focuses on issues of migration and mobility in literature, examining portrayals of displaced populations: how they are minoritized, racialized, and excised, and what it might mean to inhabit uprootedness and exile as permanent modes of being. I am committed to interdisciplinary thinking, engaging methods from Postcolonial w88 casino games and Ethnic w88 casino games, as well as South Asian w88 casino games, North African w88 casino games, Islamic w88 casino games, Geography, and Urban w88 casino games. My approach to both research and teaching is comparative, drawing on literatures in Anglophone, Francophone, and Bangla-language contexts.

My current book project, Muslim Heterotopias: Colonial Logics of Space in Literatures of Migration, focuses on representations of Muslim migration in British, French, and American w88 casino games from the post-WWII to post-9/11 eras. The book is organized around distinct spatial configurations in which Muslim migrants are permitted or prohibited movement, such as the enclave, the periphery, the checkpoint, the encampment, and the dystopia. I argue that it is in these spaces that the meaning of “Muslim” as a category of difference shifts radically in response to particular historical inflection points, such as the “Rushdie Affair” in Britain, the “Headscarf Affair” in France, the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., and the global refugee "crisis" of the 2010s. The book will examine works by Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie, Driss Chraibi, Leila Sebbar, and Michel Houellebecq among others. I have also recently published on the contentious category of the "Global Anglophone" as both a disciplinary sub-field and a literary genre. My second book project will examine literary representations of Bengali labor, comparing 19th century colonial figures such as the Babu, the lascar, the sepoy, and the weaver to 20th and 21st century postcolonial figures such as the migrant intellectual, the ship breaker, the insurgent, and the garment worker. I am also working on an edited volume examining post-9/11 Muslim perspectives in w88 casino games, film, performance, and visual art.

w88 casino games work has been published in such venues as Interventions, The Journal of Narrative Theory, ASAP/Journal, Post45 Contemporaries, Verge: w88 casino games in Global Asias, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Aerogram.

Research interests

• Colonial and Postcolonial w88 casino games
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• South Asian w88 casino games
• Migration and Diaspora w88 casino games
• Islamic w88 casino games
• Ethnic w88 casino games
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• Geography and Urban w88 casino games
• Literatures in w88 casino games, Francophone, and Bangla-language contexts

Selected publications

• “Loose Canons: w88 casino games Novel and the Failures of Universalism,”
  Interventions, Special Issue, "The Rise of w88 casino games" (2022)
• &w88 casino games;Encampment as Colonization: Theorizing the Representation of Refugee Spaces,”
  w88 casino games Theory, Volume 50, Issue 3, pp. 405-436 (2020)
• “The Migrant as Colonist: Dystopia and Apocalypse in the w88 casino games of Mass Migration,” ASAP/Journal, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 653-677 (2018)
• &w88 casino games;The Immigrant Enclave and The Satanic Verses: Race and Religion in Purgatory,”
  Verge: w88 casino games in Global Asias, Volume 1, Issue 3 (2016)
• “Introduction: Forms of w88 casino games,” Post45 Contemporaries (2019)
• &w88 casino games;The Migrant’s Nervous Condition,” Post45 Contemporaries (2017)

Courses taught

• Orient and Occident (ENG 783)
• Migrant, Refugee, Exile: Figures of Displacement (ENG 788)
• Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Globalization (ENG 786)
• East is East: w88 casino games Asias in the Western Media (ENG 437/637)
• The w88 casino games City (ENG 480B/680B)
• Immigration in Cultural Context (ENG 480A/680A)
• Introduction to w88 casino games and Criticism (ENG 303)
• The Modern World, w88 casino games Humanities (CH 202)

Education

• Ph.D., Comparative w88 casino games, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016
• M.A., w88 casino games Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007
• A.B., w88 casino games Literature, University of Chicago, 2004