MA Student

Literature

Research Area(s)

Postcolonial/Decolonial and Settler Colonial Fiction and Nonfiction, Migration and Diaspora Texts, Romantic Literatures

Contact Information

Email: fsaiyara@unm.edu
Office Location: Humanities 319

Biography

Fairooz Saiyara is a Graduate student and Teaching Assistant in the Literature program at the department of English Language and Literature here at the University of New Mexico. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the Green University of Bangladesh in 2024, where she undertook a dissertation on Bangladeshi American diaspora literature. She currently serves as a teaching instructor in the Core Writing program under the direction of Dr. Stephen Benz where she teaches introductory courses in English Composition. Her research areas comprise the problems of race, religion, and multiculturality within Postcolonial/Decolonial and Settler Colonial literatures, Romantic Literatures, Diasporic Studies, and South Asian Literatures. Her recent papers include:

“Ambivalent Cultural Othering of the Second Generation Bihari Diaspora in Hoichoi Web Series Refugee."

“Blending Magical Realism and Romanticism: A Critical Reading of Select Taranath Tantrik Short Stories by Taradas Bandyopadhyay.”

“Keats’ Sufi Speaker Jumps Back to Reality: An Evaluation of “Ode to Nightingale” written in collaboration with Ashik Istiak.”

“Tricksterism against the Terminal Creeds: A Marxist Study of Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles” written in collaboration with Ashik Istiak

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QW_BLYcAAAAJ&hl=en