Fairooz Saiyara
 | PhD StudentBritish, Irish, and Global Literary StudiesResearch Area(s)Postcolonial/Decolonial and Settler Colonial Fiction and Nonfiction, Migration and Diaspora, Global South, Marxist Feminism, Critical University Studies, Romantic Literatures Contact InformationEmail: fsaiyara24@unm.edu |
BiographyFairooz Saiyara (she/her) is a PhD Student in the British, Irish, and Global Literary Studies program. She obtained an MA in Literature from UNM and a BA in English from Green University of Bangladesh. She serves as an Instructor of Record in the Core Writing program. Saiyara’s academic and professional interests revolve around the intersection of displacement and dispossession with identity, race, and gender in diaspora literatures from the global south. Her publications also include articles on British Romanticism. She has worked with the Center of Teaching and Learning, the Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color, and NMPED for her shared commitment to educational equity. Her public-facing scholarship has been presented at national and international conferences. Recent Publications and Conferences “From Survivance to Thrivance: The Becoming of a Defiant Indian Self in Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories.” Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2026, vol. 13, no. 1, DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2026.2623567 “Seeing Past the Veil: The Political Economy of the Boarding School System.” Words of Fire, Western Literature Association, 22 Sept. 2025. “Economic Alienation: Resonances of Feeling in Academic Labor.” Praxis, University of Washington, 30 May 2025. “Blending Magical Realism and Romanticism: A Critical Reading of Select Taranath Tantrik Short Stories by Taradas Bandyopadhyay.” Green University Review of Social Sciences, vol. 9, no. 2, 2023, 36-53. External LinksGoogle Scholar: Fairooz Saiyara
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