Sabrina Sadique Address available upon request [email protected] ▪ (203) 676-3589

Date of Birth: 11/04/1981 Citizenship: United States Languages Bengali (first language); Urdu, Hindi (spoken fluency); French (reading knowledge)

Education Ph.D. (English) Harvard University, Expected in May 2014 General Exam Passed, 2005 | Committee: Profs. James Simpson, Phil Fisher, Leah Price M.A. (English) Harvard University, 2006 B.A. (English Literature) Yale University, 2004 (Distinction in the Major)

Specialization Field Postcolonial Studies, Post-9/11 Literature Subfield South Asian and Muslim Diaspora; Trauma Studies; Gender and Islam in the genres of the Graphic Novel and Science Fiction

Theses Doctoral Dissertation “States and Stakes of Gender in Post-9/11 Literature from Memoir to the Graphic Novel” Committee: Profs. Marjorie Garber (Chair), Biodun Jeyifo, James Wood, Stephen Burt, and Glenda Carpio Field Exam (Passed, 2008; Harvard University)

Undergraduate Critical Thesis “Manifestations of Blasphemy in The Satanic Verses”| Advisers: Profs. Vilashini Cooppan, Mokhtar Ghambou (Fall 2003, Yale University)

Undergraduate Creative Thesis (Fiction) “The Prophesies of a Parrot Soothsayer” | Adviser: Prof. Amy Bloom (Spring 2004, Yale University) ▪ Francis Bergen Memorial Prize for Fiction awarded by the Yale Literary Magazine (2003) ▪ Elmore A. Willetz Prize for Fiction awarded by Department of English, Yale University (2003 & 2004)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Department of English Harvard University 2006-Present

Teaching Recognitions ▪ Awarded Certificate of Distinction for performance as Head Teaching Fellow of English lecture course, “Postwar American and British Fiction” (Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Spring 2010) ▪ Received Francis James Child Prize for Excellence in Teaching Junior Tutorial, “Gender Sex Nation.” (Department of English, Spring 2009) ▪ Nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Harvard Undergraduate Council, Spring 2007)

Courses Taught

Instructor, English 98r Designed syllabus and taught writing-intensive, prerequisite seminar for juniors in the English Honors Program. The theory-heavy courses below examined a literary topic in depth, trained students in methods of literary research and analysis, and prepared them for completion of 25-page Junior Thesis: ▪ Trauma, Theory, Theos: Points of Entry into Post-9/11 Texts Spring 2010 The seminar approached 9/11 texts from the vertices of psychoanalysis, postcolonial flashbacks, and theories on the rise of religious fundamentalism across the globe. ▪ Gender Sex Nation Spring 2009 The course explored recurrent symptoms of ontological distress in narratives where women’s bodies are figured as sign and stage for emerging nations to play out their drama. Texts spanned diverse political geographies including pre- and postcolonial India, colonial Algeria, postcolonial Caribbean and South Africa, and post-revolution Iran.

Head Teaching Fellow ▪ English 168d, Postwar American and British Fiction (Prof. James Wood) 2007, 2008, 2009 Close-read post-WWII fictions for their aesthetic signature and as responses to larger historical traditions. Supervised lecture course as Head TF, performed administrative functions (managed enrollment, coordinated sections, guided co-Teaching Fellows), and designed interactive course website.

Teaching Assistant ▪ Freshman Seminar 36q, Theater and Magic (Professors Marjorie Garber and Diane Paulus) Fall 2013 Focused on two key historical moments (the English Renaissance and the contemporary theater) to study theatricality and its links to the power of the magus, the witch, the wizard, and the arts of illusion. Considered works of Marlowe, Jonson, Robert Greene, and Shakespeare alongside productions of magic on the modern stage.

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Teaching Fellow ▪ English S-134, S-124e Shakespeare (Professor Marjorie Garber) Summers 2010, 2012 Parsed five plays, one from each of Shakespeare’s major dramatic genres (comedy, history, problem play, tragedy, and romance) through the theoretical and critical lenses of psychoanalysis, gender studies, and stage performance. ▪ English S-198, Detective Fictions (Professor Marjorie Garber) Summer 2012 Analyzed paradigms and processes of detection with texts ranging from Oedipus the King to James Watson’s The Double Helix. Readings (Christie, Poe, Doyle, Innes, Freud, et al.) addressed psychoanalytic approaches to the investigative subject and marked structural commonalities within literatures of suspicion. ▪ English 128, Theater, Dream, Shakespeare (Profs. Marjorie Garber and Diane Paulus) Fall 2009 Probed the relationship between dream and theater with emphasis on the concepts of source, adaptation, translation, and performance. Shakespeare’s dream plays pivoted the study and were analyzed directly alongside their theatrical reconfigurations by the American Repertory Theater. Works by Calderón, Ibsen, Strindberg, Artaud, and Genet supplemented the analysis. ▪ English 192p, Postmodern Literature (Prof. Glenda Carpio) Spring 2009 Examined the ideological and stylistic qualities shared by postmodern texts as well as their challenges to modernist expressions and aesthetics. Designed course website, co-wrote exams, and taught sections. ▪ English 182, S188, Science Fiction (Prof. Stephen Burt) Summers ’08,’09, Fall ’07 Navigated the stylistic and conceptual milestones in the development of Science Fiction as a prose genre from the late 19th century to the present. Conducted all sections, guest-lectured and co-led seminars in the summer versions of the course. ▪ English 166x, The Postcolonial Classic (Prof. Homi K. Bhabha) Fall 2006 Investigated the notion of a “classic” and its politics in the postcolonial genre with texts ranging from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to Gandhi’s The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Authors included Kipling, Naipaul, Coetzee, DuBois, Fanon, and Said among others. Structured syllabus, selected critical readings for supplementary coursepack, built interactive course website, and wrote the exams.

DEPARTMENTAL ADVISING Department of English | Harvard University | 2008-2010 Senior Thesis Advisor, Directed year-long research and composition of 15,000-word thesis by senior undergraduates (below) in the Honors Program: 1. Molly Donovan, “In This Shabby Little Town: The Small Town in Fiction by Marilynne Robinson and Richard Russo” (co-advised with Professor Peter Sacks) 2009-2010 2. Wesley Oliver, “The Triumph of Failed Authority in Fictions of J.M. Coetzee” 2007-2008 Advisee won the Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for the Most Outstanding Thesis concerning African Literature Junior Thesis Advisor, Directed junior Shoshanna Fine’s thesis, “Writing Oneself into Existence: Authorship and Alienation in J.M. Coetzee's Foe” Advisee won Robert Kiely Prize for Outstanding Junior Essay Spring 2009

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ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT ▪ Organizer, Annual Meeting of the ACLA, New Orleans April 2010 Coordinated panel, “Points of Entry into 9/11 Texts” ▪ Guest-lecturer, English 168d, Postwar American and British Fiction, Harvard University Spring 2007 Questioned the ontological stakes entailed in the acts of reading and writing with Walter Benjamin’s “The Storyteller” and Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day as reflective texts. ▪ Guest-lecturer, English 182, S188, Science Fiction, Harvard University Fall 2007, Summer 2009 Traced Nalo Hopkinson’s use of “carnival” as the allegorical center of Science Fiction novel Midnight Robber back to the rite’s revolutionary origins in Caribbean slave history. Contrasted Western Christian etymology of “carnival” with its postcolonial variant in the West Indies.

STUDENT AFFAIRS | Harvard University, 2007-2010 ▪ Assistant Dean in the General Program, Harvard Summer Programs Summer 2010 Oversaw welfare of college students in residence for the summer at Kirkland House. Duties included reporting to the Dean of Students, serving on the Dean’s Council, and bringing disciplinary cases before the Administrative Board as necessary. ▪ Co-leader, Community Conversations segment, Harvard College Fall 2010 Debated concerns of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic and cultural difference with incoming freshmen in Harvard College as part of awareness initiative launched by the Freshman Dean’s Office. ▪ Resident Tutor in English, Dunster House, Harvard College 2009-2010 Tutored Dunster House undergraduates in English and related fields in the Humanities. Held weekly office hours and “close-reading” workshops, edited theses and research papers, hosted literary events, and invited faculty members to present current research to students. ▪ Sophomore Adviser in the Humanities, Dunster House, Harvard College Served as resident academic adviser for incoming sophomores in the House. Oriented them to the General Education (previously Core) curriculum of the College, guided their course and concentration selections, monitored their academic progress. ▪ Resident Adviser in Race Relations, Dunster House, Harvard College Addressed incidents of racial, ethnic, and/or religious discrimination in Dunster House. Worked with Harvard Foundation to facilitate discussions and organize events germane to the subject of race relations within the undergraduate residence and across the University. ▪ Resident Adviser, Institute for English Language Programs, GSAS Summer 2009 Helped incoming foreign PhD candidates adapt to residential life over the summer as they underwent intensive English language training. ▪ Resident Advisor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) 2007-2009 Served as liaison officer for GSAS Student Services to help graduate students acclimate to the cultural diversity of the residence halls and bridge them to pertinent academic and health-related resources provided by the university. Page 4 of 5, Sadique

▪ EFL (English as A Foreign Language) Focus Area Liaison, RA Coordinator, Harvard GSAS 2007-2008 Acquainted students to American idioms and vernacular culture with language-focused initiatives, held workshops on public speaking, and linked international residents to existing courses on scientific and legal writing in the University.

STUDENT AFFAIRS | Yale University, 2000-2004 . Freshman Counselor to Class of 2007, Davenport College 2003-2004 Assisted freshmen adapt to Yale community; functioned as academic and residential advisor. . Founder, President, SNAPS (Special Needs Awareness & Peer Services) 2003-2004 Initiated a voluntary program that raised campus awareness on disability issues and served day-to-day needs of students with physical limitations from illness or injury. . Residential Counselor, Yale Summer Programs 2002, 2003, 2004 Helped college and pre-college students adjust to residential as well as cultural life at Yale for the summer period; supervised recreational activities on- and off-campus. . International Counselor, Orientation for International Students Fall 2002 Coordinated four-day pre-orientation program to connect first-year international students with resources within Yale College as well as the city of New Haven.

REFERENCES

. Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and of Visual & Environmental Studies (Harvard University) | E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: (617) 955-0251

. James Wood, Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism (Harvard University) E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: (617) 868-0864

. Stephen Burt, Professor of English (Harvard University) | E-mail: [email protected]

. Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of African and African American Studies & Comparative Literature (Harvard) Email: [email protected]

. Glenda Carpio, Professor of English, African and African American Studies (Harvard University) E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: (646) 234-2348

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