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About Iqra Shagufta Cheema
Dr. Iqra Shagufta Cheema writes and teaches about visual cultures, transnational feminisms, postcolonial literatures, and feminist cinema.
NBN Episodes hosted by Iqra:
June 14, 2023
Democratic Criticism
After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement— found in texts originating in the West containing them…
May 10, 2023
Arab and Muslim Science Fiction
How is science fiction from the Arab and Muslim world different than mainstream science fiction from the West? What distinctive and original contribut…
May 6, 2023
Semiotics of Rape
In Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India (Duke UP, 2022), Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest I…
April 24, 2023
Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan
Saadia Sumbal's book Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan: Sufis and Ulema in 20th-Century South Asia (Routledge, 2021) examines the history of, and…
February 6, 2023
Heterotopic World Fiction
Note: Sadly, Dr. Marie-Christine Leps passed away before the book came out. Via this conversation, we pay homage to her work that went into the making…
December 21, 2022
Trauma, Tresses, and Truth
Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military…
December 16, 2022
Digital Gender-Sexual Violations
This groundbreaking book argues that the fundamental issues around how victim-survivors of digital gender-sexual violations (DGSVs) are abused can be …
December 11, 2022
Novels of Displacement
In Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital (Ohio State UP, 2020), Marco Codebò assesses the state of fiction in our time, an age …
November 2, 2022
Subversive Archaism
In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Duke UP, 2022), Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and…
October 26, 2022
Temple Lamp
Today I talked to Maaz Bin Bilal about Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (India Penguin Classics, 2022). The poem ‘Chirag-e-…
October 26, 2022
Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing
As the first study of its kind, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem, 2022) offers a new understanding of progressive wome…
October 18, 2022
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan
The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian perso…
September 21, 2022
The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less prom…
September 6, 2022
Our Sister who Will Not Die
This stories in this collection ask the reader to evaluate the humanness of the characters as well as readers’ own humaneness and capacity for empathy…
August 29, 2022
Gender, Sex, and Tech!
In this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An I…
August 11, 2022
Millennial Feminism at Work
In Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2021), volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students…
August 2, 2022
Free Indirect
What is the purpose of a novel? What purpose or logic do literary critics assign to a novel? How has the novel changed? What does that mean for its re…
July 26, 2022
Tying the Knot
Are you a born, revert, or convert Muslim who is trying to navigate the puzzle that is Muslim marriage in America? Do you want an egalitarian and fair…