Fairooz Saiyara
 | MA StudentAmerican Literary StudiesResearch Area(s)Postcolonial/Decolonial and Settler Colonial Fiction and Nonfiction, Migration and Diaspora Texts, Global South, Political Economy, Rhetoric, Romantic Literatures Contact InformationEmail: fsaiyara@unm.edu |
BiographyFairooz Saiyara (she/her) is a Graduate student in the American Literary Studies 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 an Instructor of Record in the Core Writing program teaching first year English composition. Her academic and professional interests revolve around the intersection of displacement and dispossession with identity, race, and gender in diaspora literatures from the global south, especially South Asian American literary works. Her current research projects focus on the settler-native-alien triangulation and how political economy shapes the material conditions of the alien workers. Her recent papers include: “Living in Flux: The Disjointed and Displaced Bangladeshi American Women.” Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, Scopus [forthcoming] “Diaspora by Fate: The Portrayal of Second Generation Bihari-Bangladeshis in Hoichoi Web Series Refugee." Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, Scopus [forthcoming] “Exploring Martin Luther King Jr.’s political theology and the spirit of the civil rights movement revisioning James Cone’s criticism.” 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠, April 2025. “Blending Magical Realism and Romanticism: A Critical Reading of Select Taranath Tantrik Short Stories by Taradas Bandyopadhyay.” GUSS, vol. 9, no. 2, 2023, 36-53. “Keats’ Sufi Speaker Jumps Back to Reality: An Evaluation of Ode to Nightingale.” BJAH, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022, 97-106. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QW_BLYcAAAAJ&hl=en
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