PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Raihan M. Sharif is an Associate Professor in English at Jahangirnagar University. He worked as a Fulbright Scholar in Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, USA. Dr. Sharif also works as a consultant in the development sector, a teacher trainer and a corporate trainer.

In his scholarly works, Dr. Sharif spatializes resistance against homo-neoliberal and neo-imperial forces while decolonizing influential academic discourses: sexual citizenship, queer politics, neoliberal diversity, hybridity discourses, etc. Raihan also examines unequal power relations along the host/migrant paradigm in the US, challenges the politics of native agents in diasporic fictions, destabilizes global Islamophobia within the frame of moral panic in the west, critiques the abandonment of disabled and poor people in the global south, exposes the imperial logic of hybridity discourses, studies the creation, growth, and sustainability of academic programs related to inequality (e.g., ethnic, LGBTQ, disability, critical cultural studies), examines dissenting citizenship, and investigates queer asylum cases. In several Bangladeshi public and private universities, Raihan instructs undergraduate and graduate students in cultural studies, gender studies, and research methodologies. He has held positions at a number of universities, including Stamford University, Brac University, American International University (AIUB), Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), East West University, North South University (NSU), Daffodil International University (DIU), and Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX).

In the field of development sector research, Dr. Sharif has served as both a gender expert and a lead consultant on multiple projects. He served a number of organizations, including Brac, Caritas, Care, the Asia Foundation, Oxfam, and Save the Children. As a consultant, he places a high value on the triangulation of data, solid research ethics throughout a project, and rigorous research methodology in research design. Dr. Sharif enjoys making recommendations and changing pathways for his clients.

RESEARCH INTEREST

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:

• Interdisciplinary Studies: Interdisciplinary Methodology, Interdisciplinary pedagogy
• English Language Teaching: ESL/EFL Materials Development, Practical Teaching Techniques, Approaches and Methods in ESL/EFL Teaching, Semantics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Research Methodology, ESL/EFL Reading and Writing, ESL/EFL Speaking and Listening
• English Literature: British Romantic Poetry, Victorian Literature, Modern British Poetry and Drama
• American Literature: 19th C American Novels, 19th American Poetry, 20th Century American Literature 
• Cultural Studies: Birmingham School, Frankfurt School, American Cultural Studies
• Racial Politics: inter-ethnic rivalries, Islamophobia as new racism, incarceration of blacks, browns and Muslims.
• Intersectional Performance Studies: racial performance, gender performance, the politics of dissent in hula dances. 
• Queer Studies: political asylum of brown queers and Muslim queers; queer vitality and necropower, Combating homophobia and transphobia, homonationalism 
• Women’s Studies: Third World Feminism
• Gender Studies: Gender in Literature, Transphobia, Transgenders, Representations of Hijras, Social Justice for Hijras. 
• Inequity and social justice: race, gender, dis/ability and the prison industrial complex; race and popular culture, Global Inequality, Social Justice and American Culture, Theories of Racism and Ethnic Conflict.
• Cultural Geography, Space and Time: Urbanaization, politics of time, pace, and rhythm, spatialization of resistance, rhythmanalysis, reproduction of uneven spaces in urban design and architecture, spatiotemporal quality of the historical riot (Badiou). 
• Postcolonial Studies: hybridity, empire, neoliberalism, necropower.
• Diasporic Studies: native agents, dissenting citizenship, host/migrant exchanges.
• Visual and digital culture: billboards, memes, hactivism, WikiLeaks, Anonymous.
• Social Movement Analysis: Civil Rights Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring. 
• Academia: academic-industrial complex, scholarly activism, sustainability of academic programs related to inequality (e.g., ethnic, LGBTQ, disability, critical cultural studies).

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