Tehmina Pirzada
203 Linton Hall
479 West Circle Dr
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyIntegrated Arts and Humanities
Assistant Professor
Biography
I focus on the cultural constructions of South Asian adolescence within the material, visual, and digital cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries. My interdisciplinary interests span visual studies, postcolonial and South Asian literatures, youth cultures, and the autoethnographic narratives of breast cancer, particularly highlighting the experiences of academic women.
Awards and Honors
NON/HUMANITY: Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities Bucknell Summer Institute fellowship
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2022
Transformational Educational Experience Grant
Qatar Foundation
2022
International Youth library Fellowship
Auswärtiges Amt (German Foreign Ministry)
2021
Fulbright Scholarship Award
USAID
2012
Courses
IAH 231B-741 Moral Quandaries in Dystopian Worlds
Students engage in the exploration of ethical dilemmas through speculative literature, film, and poetry, challenging them to critically examine global issues like techno-surveillance, eco-collapse, and political power struggles as reflected in both fictional dystopias and real-world contexts.
IAH 207 Shadows and Scholars -The Aesthetics of Dark Academia in Contemporary Writing
Students delve into the world of Dark Academia, exploring how literature and film reflect, create, and challenge cultural identities through intellectual intrigue, power dynamics, and gothic atmospheres, while questioning the academic structures they often glorify.
Publications
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/893639
Tehmina Pirzada and Saba Pirzadeh. “Cinematic Empire and Restorative Nostalgia in Viceroy’s House and Victoria and Abdul.” Literature, Critique, and Empire Today. 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00219894211066444
“‘Let Us Be Giants’: Masculinity Nostalgia and Military Edutainment in South Asian War Comics.” Boyhood Studies. vol. 14, no. 1, June 2021, pp. 25–44.
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/14/1/bhs140103.xml
“Boundary Crossings and Social Justice in A Girl Called Genghis Khan.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. Vol. 59, no. 3. 2021, pp. 5–14. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/800201
Tehmina Pirzada and Saba Pirzadeh. “Pakistani Popular Music: A Call to Reform in the Public Sphere.” Journal of South Asian Popular Culture. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746689.2018.1512702
“Transgressing Religious and Gender Binaries: Amar Ayyar’s Polysemous Identity in Tilism in Hoshruba.” Journal of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies, 64(3), Feb. 2018, pp.167–182. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20512856.2017.1402459
“Narrating Muslim Girlhood in the Pakistani Cityscape of Graphic Narratives.” Girlhood Studies, 10(3), Dec. 2017, pp. 88–104. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood- studies/10/3/ghs100308.xml
“‘Sharing the Scatter’: Assemblage and Affect in The Scatter Here Is Too Great.” South Asian Review. 38 (3), 2017, pp. 50–73.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02759527.2017.12002551