Rate My Professor Nasia Anam

Anam's research centers on migration and mobility in literature, particularly portrayals of displaced populations that are minoritized, racialized, and excised, exploring what it means to inhabit uprootedness and exile permanently. She employs interdisciplinary methods from Postcolonial Studies, Ethnic Studies, South Asian studies, North African studies, Islamic studies, Geography, and Urban Studies, with a comparative approach across Anglophone, Francophone, and Bangla-language literatures. Her current book project, Muslim Heterotopias: Colonial Logics of Space in Literatures of Migration, examines spatial configurations like enclaves, peripheries, checkpoints, encampments, and dystopias in British, French, and American literature from post-WWII to post-9/11 eras, featuring works by Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie, Driss Chraibi, Leila Sebbar, and Michel Houellebecq. A second project investigates Bengali labor representations from colonial to postcolonial figures such as the Babu, lascar, and garment worker. She is editing a volume on post-9/11 Muslim perspectives in literature, film, performance, and visual art. Key publications include “Loose Canons: The Global Anglophone Novel and the Failures of Universalism” (Interventions, 2022), “Encampment as Colonization: Theorizing the Representation of Refugee Spaces” (Journal of Narrative Theory, 2020), “The Migrant as Colonist: Dystopia and Apocalypse in the Literature of Mass Migration” (ASAP/Journal, 2018), “The Immigrant Enclave and The Satanic Verses: Race and Religion in Purgatory” (Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 2016), “Introduction: Forms of the Global Anglophone” (Post45 Contemporaries, 2019), and “The Migrant’s Nervous Condition” (Post45 Contemporaries, 2017).