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 Micropolitics in the Age of Neoliberal .

2011-2013 MA in Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, WSU, USA

2003-2005 MA in English, , .

1999-2003 BA in English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2013-present Graduate Teaching Assistant, CCGRS, WSU.

2013-2014 Academic Fellow, Global Center for Advanced Studies, USA.

2011-2013 Fulbright Scholar, WSU.

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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 , 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 ).

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PUBLICATIONS

2016

Book Chapters:

 “Inter-societal Homophobia and Homonationalist Gaze: Challenges of Bangladeshi Homosexuals in Internal and External Migration”. Gender and Youth Migration: A Global Survey. Ed. Glenda Tibe Bonifacio. Palgrave McMillan. (Forthcoming in 2017).

 “Homonationalism.” The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men's Communities. Damien Riggs, Ed. Rowman & Littlefield. (Forthcoming 2017).

 “Understanding Culture for Pedagogy.” Language and Culture into Every Classroom. Joy Egbert and Gisela Ernst-Slavit, eds. Information Age Publishing, NC, USA. (Forthcoming in 2017).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

 “Beyond Metropolises: Hybridity in Transnational Contexts.” Disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory. Volume 25, Issue1. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol25/iss1/14/

 “Critical Theory for the 21st Century: Game for Change, Dance for Future, and Rhythm for Revolution.” Heathwood Journal of Critical Theory. Volume 1, Issue 2. February, 2016.

 “Differentiation of Death: Necrostrategies and Tactics of Resistance in the Necrocapitalist Regimes.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. (Forthcoming in June 2017).

 ‘Stasis’ and ‘Motion’ for the Transgendered: Towards a Trans-. Transgender Studies Quarterly. (Paper submitted).

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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

 “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

 “From Fragmented Resistance to Historical Riot,” Heathwood Journal of Critical Theory: Power Violence and Non-violence. Vol. 1, Issue 1. 46- 65.http://www.heathwoodpress.com/heathwood-journal-of-critical-theory-issue- 1-power-violence-and-non-violence/

 “Cultural Subversion in Billboard War on War on Terror: Resistance or Recuperation?” in Panini, Volume 6. 91-112.

 “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.

2008-2011

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.

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CONFERENCES

“Motion and Stasis for the Brown Transgenders: Transnational Reproduction of (Im)mobility.” Tufts Humanities Conference: Mobile Communities. Anderson Hall. Tufts University, Medford, MA. Friday, October 28, 2016.

“From ‘Murderous Inclusion’ to ‘Machinic Enslavement’: Networks for Ethnic Studies.” Symposium on American Ethnic Studies: Toward Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Friday, May 6, 2016.

“Co-Space Creators as Performers: Campus Protests to End Racial Inequality.” Interdisciplinary Symposium on Space. Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Friday, October 21, 2016.

“Whose Transnationalism?” Claremont Interdisciplinary Conference: Lost in Transnationalism: Reflections on Multiculturalism and . Department of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA, October 26, 2012.

“Hybridity in the Postcolonial Cultural Studies” Faculty Seminar. East West University, Bangladesh, June 12, 2013.

“The Role of Computer Technology in Development of English Skills.” English and Technology conference. Faculties of Arts and Humanities, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, June 14, 2011.

“Television as a Cultural Text.” English 4 Today conference. Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, January, 2010.

“Alan Badiou’s Theory of Evil.” Faculty Enrichment Seminar. Department of Philosophy, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, June, 2009.

“The Role of Consumers as audience of Ads and Billboards.” Cultural Studies Conference. University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh. February, 2008.

“Mirror and the Gun”: Postcoloniality and Diaspora. Latin American Literature International Conference in a panel chaired by Professor Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, UC, Irvine, USA arranged by Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. July, 2006.

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INVITED SPEAKER

“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 Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

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

Spring, 2016:

CES 244: Critical Globalizations

Summer 2016:

CES 325: Travel and Tourism

Fall 2016:

CES 101, Introduction to Comparative Ethnic studies

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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 an Editor and Fellow at Heathwood. He helps guide and manage the Race, Class, Gender, and Ability: Cultural Studies and Critical Intersections research cluster. Check Heathwood Articles: http://www.heathwoodpress.com  Raihan is a teaching scholar at The Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies (CITS), http://www.coop-its.org/.  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).

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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]

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