RAIHAN M. SHARIF Phd Candidate (ABD) Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies (CCGRS) American Studies

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). http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/volumes/21.1/sharif

Sharif, Raihan (2015). “Queering the Reform/Revolution Dyad: A Spatiotemporal Dialectic, Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum: Vol. 6: Issue 1. 11-26. http://trace.tennessee.edu/catalyst/vol6/iss1/4 Sharif, Raihan (2015). “From Fragmented Resistance to Historical Riot,” Heathwood Journal of Critical Theory: Power Violence and Non-violence. Vol. 1, Issue 1. 46- 65. Sharif, Raihan (2015) “Cultural Subversion in Billboard War on War on Terror: Resistance or Recuperation?” in Panini, Volume 7, Issue 1. Sharif, Raihan (2015). “State of Academia: Understanding Power and Counter-power” in State of Power 2015: An Annual Anthology of Global Power and Resistance. Nick Buxton and Madeleine Bélanger Dumontier, eds. The Transnational Institute, 2015. Sharif, Raihan (2016). “Who is Gay Enough? : Universal Gay Discourses in Queer Asylum Cases versus Distinctive Homosexual Formation at Intersections of Race, Class, Sex, and Gender,” Gender and Youth Migration : A Global Survey. Ed. Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. (Book chapter proposal accepted). Sharif, Raihan (2016). “Differentiation of Death: Necrostrategies and Tactics of Resistance in the Necrocapitalist Regimes,” (Forthcoming in May 2016, paper submitted) Biswas Shampa, Sayeeda Rahman, and Raihan Sharif (2016). “Understanding Culture for Pedagogy,” Integrating Language and Culture into Every Classroom. Joy Egbert and Gisela Ernst-Slavit, eds. Information Age Publishing, NC, USA. (Book Chapter Submitted).

Sharif, Raihan (2016), “Beyond Metropolises: Hybridity in Transnational Contexts.” (Proposal submitted).

Sharif, Raihan (2011), “Vesuvius in America: Rich and Dickinson,” Jahangirnagar Review. Dhaka: Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Sharif, Raihan (2011), “Feminism versus Postfeminism: Postfeminists’ Quest for Groundless Solidarity,” Harvest, Dhaka: Department of English, Jahangirnagar University. Sharif, Raihan (2010), “Representation of Silence in Literature,” Harvest. Dhaka: Department of English, Jahangirnagar University. Sharif, Raihan (2009), “The Birth of the Fourth Reader,” Harvest. Dhaka: Department of English, Jahangirnagar University. Sharif, Raihan (2008), “Hughes’ Crow: A Prophet in the Fallen World,” Harvest. Dhaka: Department of English, Jahangirnagar University. CONFERENCES Sharif, Raihan. “Damn, it’s Death Calculus!: Spatiotemporal Management of Death within the Nested Sovereignties,” in 2016 Symposium : “Spatializing Sovereignty” to be organized by Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life. March 4, 2016 at University of California at Barkley. (Paper proposal submitted). Sharif, Raihan. “Whose Transnationalism?” presented at “Lost in Transnationalism: Reflections on Multiculturalism and Globalization”, Department of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA, October 26, 2012. Sharif, Raihan. “Hybridity in the Postcolonial Cultural Studies” Presented at East West University, Bangladesh, June 12, 2013. Sharif, Raihan, “The Role of Computer Technology in Development of English Skills”, presented at English and Technology conference, Faculties of Arts and Humanities, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, September, 2011. Sharif, Raihan, “Television as a Cultural Text”, presented at English 4 Today conference, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, January, 2010. Sharif, Raihan, “Alan Badiou’s Theory of Evil” presented at Faculty Enrichment Seminar, Department of Philosophy, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, June, 2009. Sharif, Raihan, “The Role of Consumers as audience of Ads and Billboards” presented at Cultural Studies Conference, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, February, 2008. Sharif, Raihan, “Mirror and the Gun”: Postcoloniality and Diaspora, presented at Latin American Literature International Conference in a panel chaired by Professor Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, UC, Irvine, USA arranged by Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. July, 2006.

INVITED SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS “Approaching Geopolitical Tensions in Solving Global problems,” Global Case Competition, April 11, 2014. International Programs, Washington State University. “Integrating Culture in Education,” International Mother Language Day, March 2, 2014. Association of Bangladeshi Students and Scholars, WSU.

TEACHING at WSU Fall 2013 CES 380, Immigration and Citizenship in the Global Economy, under the mentorship of Associate Professor Rory J. Ong. Spring 2014 CES 101, Introduction to Comparative Ethic Studies Summer 2014 American Studies, English, History, Women’s Studies 216: American Cultures Fall 2014 CES 101, Introduction to Comparative Ethic Studies Spring 2015 CES 244, Critical Globalizations Summer 2015 CES 440, Global Social Justice Fall 2015 CES 101, Introduction to Comparative Ethic Studies

TEACHING at JU, BANGLADESH Semester Course Title Fall 2011 E507 Introduction to Cultural Studies E304 Early American Literature E405 Contemporary American Literature Spring 2010 E510 Introduction to Cultural Studies E509 Introduction to Gender and Literature Fall 2009 E 409 Critical Theories in Practice E 205 British Romantic Literature Fall 2008 E402 Shakespeare and Cultural Materialism E103 Anglo-Saxon Literature Spring 2008 E 212 Victorian Poetry E 303 Metaphysical Poetry Fall 2007 E 306 Modern British Poetry E 215 American Prose and Drama Spring 2007 E313 Neoclassical Literature: Novel E101 Introduction to Literature: Poetry Fall 2006 E 201 Introduction to Short stories E 207 History of English Literature Spring 2006 E108 Reading and Public Speaking E106 Writing Skills Fall 2005 E202 English for Critical Thinking

SELECTED OTHER COURSES TAUGHT

 Rhetoric and Composition, summer 2013, Independent University Bangladesh.  Introduction to Business Correspondence at Independent University of Bangladesh, summer 2011.  Speaking and Reading Skill at American International University of Bangladesh, spring 2008.  Developing Writing Skills at Eastern University, fall 2010.

COURSE CURRICULUM CREATED at JU

 Introduction to Cultural Studies (adopted 2007)  English Skills for Department of Philosophy(adopted 2006) University Service Member Examination Committee, MA 2010 Chair Examination Committee, BA Part III, 2010 Member Examination Committee, BA Part II, 2009 Chair Departmental Admission Test, 2010

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Washington State University, 2013-2017.  Fulbright Scholarship 2011-2013.  Merit Scholarship for securing the first position in MA, 2005.  Merit Scholarship for securing the first position in BA (Hon’s), 2003.  Dhaka Board Scholarship in Higher Secondary Certificate Examination, 1997.  Dhaka Board Scholarship in Secondary School Certificate Examination, 1995.  Ayesha Amin Foundation Scholarship, 1993.  National Scholarship in Talent Pool, 1992.

ORGANIZATIONS

 Raihan helped form Global Center of Advanced Studies (GCAS) in Michigan, USA. GCAS works to transform higher education to make it more inclusive and committed to justice. https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/  Raihan is a regular author and contributor, Heathwood Press, UK. http://www.heathwoodpress.com/  Member, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).  President, Association for Bangladeshi Students and Scholars, WSU, 2013-2014.  Member, National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NFDD).

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS  I successfully completed a training on navigating academia in USA at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. July 2011- August 2011.  I served as a member of Programming Committee, WSU Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference, 2015. My job was to review abstracts for presentation. I am serving the same committee in 2016.  I participated in the Global Case Competition 2015 organized by WSU.  I participated in the Wiley Research Exposition 2015 organized by WSU.  I attended a Graduate Grant Writing Workshop organized by Office of Research/Office of Grant and Research Development, WSU on 28th March, 2015.  I composed the lyric for “Shahbag Tomar Awaj” in Songs from Shahbag (2013).

Professional References

Dr. John Streamas Associate professor Critical Culture, Gender, and race Studies Washington State University Pullman, WA 99163 USA. Phone: 509-335-4791 E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Azfar Hussain Associate Professor, Liberal Studies Department Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 49401 Phones: 616-331-8172 (W), 405-385-1241 (H) Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Dr. David J. Leonard Professor and Chair Critical Culture, Gender, and race Studies Washington State University Pullman, WA 99163 USA. Phone: 509-335-6854 E-mail: [email protected]