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:

Masood Ashraf Raja, "Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred" (Lever Press, 2023)

June 14, 2023

Democratic Criticism

Masood Ashraf Raja
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After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement— found in texts originating in the West containing them…

Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)

May 10, 2023

Arab and Muslim Science Fiction

Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha

How is science fiction from the Arab and Muslim world different than mainstream science fiction from the West? What distinctive and original contribut…

Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 6, 2023

Semiotics of Rape

Rupal Oza

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…

Saadia Sumbal, "Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan: Sufis and Ulema in 20th-Century South Asia" (Routledge, 2021)

April 24, 2023

Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan

Saadia Sumbal

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…

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

February 6, 2023

Heterotopic World Fiction

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps

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…

Lyzette Wanzer, "Trauma, Tresses, and Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)

December 21, 2022

Trauma, Tresses, and Truth

Lyzette Wanzer

Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military…

Matthew Hall et al., "Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations" (Routledge, 2022)

December 16, 2022

Digital Gender-Sexual Violations

Matthew Hall, Jeff Hearn, and Ruth Lewis

This groundbreaking book argues that the fundamental issues around how victim-survivors of digital gender-sexual violations (DGSVs) are abused can be …

Marco Codebò, "Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

December 11, 2022

Novels of Displacement

Marco Codebò

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 …

Michael Herzfeld, "Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage" (Duke UP, 2022)

November 2, 2022

Subversive Archaism

Michael Herzfeld

In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Duke UP, 2022), Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and…

Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)

October 26, 2022

Temple Lamp

Maaz Bin Bilal

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-…

Amina Yaqin, "Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing" (Anthem, 2022)

October 26, 2022

Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing

Amina Yaqin

As the first study of its kind, Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (Anthem, 2022) offers a new understanding of progressive wome…

Asim Sajjad Akhter, "The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons" (Pluto Press, 2022)

October 18, 2022

The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian perso…

Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

September 21, 2022

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Mary J. Magoulick

Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less prom…

Rebecca Bernard, "Our Sister Who Will Not Die: Stories" (Madcreek Books, 2022)

September 6, 2022

Our Sister who Will Not Die

Rebecca Bernard

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…

Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)

August 29, 2022

Gender, Sex, and Tech!

Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith

In this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An I…

Jane Juffer, "Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2021)

August 11, 2022

Millennial Feminism at Work

Jane Juffer

In Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2021), volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students…

Timothy Bewes, "Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age" (Columbia UP, 2022)

August 2, 2022

Free Indirect

Timothy Bewes

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…

Kecia Ali, ed., "Tying the Knot: A Feminist/Womanist Guide to Muslim Marriage in America" (Open BU, 2021)

July 26, 2022

Tying the Knot

Kecia Ali

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…