RAIHAN M. SHARIF PhD Candidate (ABD) Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies (CCGRS) American Studies Washington State University Pullman, Washington, USA. Telephone: (509)330-6093 E-mail:
[email protected] EDUCATION 2013-present Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), with dissertation, titled Spatialization of Revolutionary Surges and Cultural Innovations: A Rhythmanalysis of Recuperation in the Necrocapitalist Matrix. 2011-2013 MA in Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, WSU, USA 2003-2005 MA in English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. 1999-2003 BA in English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2013-2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant, CCGRS, WSU. 2013-2014 Academic Fellow, Global Center for Advanced Studies, USA. 2011-2013 Fulbright Scholar, WSU. 2008-present Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University 2005-2008 Lecturer, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University RESEARCH AND TEACHING Queer Studies political asylum of brown queers and Muslim queers; queer vitality and necropower. Space and Time politics of time, pace, and rhythm, spatialization of resistance, rhythmanalysis, reproduction of uneven spaces in urban design and architecture, spatiotemporal quality of the historical riot (Badiou). Postcolonial Studies hybridity, empire, neoliberalism, necropower. Racial Politics Islamophobia as new racism, incarceration of blacks, browns and Muslims. Diasporic Studies native agents, dissenting citizenship, host/migrant exchanges. Visual and Digital Culture billboard, meme, hactivism, WikiLeaks, Anonymous. Social Movement Analysis civil rights movement, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring. Academia academic-industrial complex, scholarly activism, sustainability of academic programs related to inequality, (e.g. ethnic, LGBTQ, disability, critical cultural studies). PUBLICATIONS Sharif, Raihan (2015). “White Gaze Saving Brown Queers: Homonationalism Meets Imperialist Islamophobia,” Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, Volume 21.1 (2015).