Research Interests

• Masculinity, Gender & Religion
• Media & Gender
• Representation Theory
• Postcolonial Feminism
• Critical Marxism
• Confessional Poetry
• Postcolonial Anglophone Literature

Title

Muslim Masculinities in South Asia and Southeast Asia: Representation Through Bangladeshi and Malaysian Anglophone Fiction

Supervisors

Main Supervisor: Dr Hannah Ho Ming Yit
Co-Supervisor: Dr Kathrina Mohd Daud

Publications

Journal Articles

Tinni, T. M., & Nahar, S. (2022). ‘Hijab culture’: Branding of faith in a capitalist society. A Study on Popular Media Through the Critical Marxism (CJD Booklet No. 4). International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Nahar, S., & Morve, R. K. (2021). The representation of Muslim identity in diaspora in post 9/11: A study Of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003). International Review of Literary Studies, 3(2), 20-30.

Book Chapters

Nahar, S., & Tinni, T. M. (2023). Rape, restriction and protest: A critical analysis of the Bangladeshi female student movement. In N. Sengupta & S. S. Sinha (Eds.), Female narratives of protest. Routledge.

Nahar, S. (2022). Teaching narratives of rape survivors of the 1971 War in a classroom: A study on university students. In F. Hasanat & L. Asad (Eds.), In the crossfire of history: Revisiting women's war resistance discourse. Rutgers University Press.

Conferences and Presentations

Bravo-Sotelo, K., Nahar, S., Soberano, C., & Emovwodo, S. (2024). When teachers become doctoral students: A collaborative autoethnography of international PhD students from Brunei Darussalam. Paper presented at Brunei Forum, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Feb 26-27, 2024.

Sen, A., & Nahar, S. (2023, June 12-13). Critical reading of suicide in Jibanananda Das’ One Day Eight Years Ago. Paper presented at the PG research conference titled "Encounters: Memory, Community, Futurity", Glasgow University. https://encountersconference.wordpress.com/programme/

Nahar, S., & Tinni, T. M. (2022). ‘Hijab culture’: Branding of faith and sexuality in a capitalist society [Abstract]. In Consol-ing Passions Conference Program. Paper presented at the Consol-ing Passions Conference, University of Central Florida. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cp2022/program/pink/6/

Nahar, S. (2022, January 14). The Birangona narratives in college classrooms: A survey. Paper presented at the First International Conference of ATLEB (Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh), Dhaka.

Nahar, S., & Morve, R. (2020). The representation of Muslim immigrant identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Paper presented at the ICLL 2020 Conference, IIUM.

Nahar, S. (2019). Autobiography and personal sufferings: A comparative study of confessional poets Sylvia Plath, Anna Akhmatova and Forough Farrokhzad. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual ELT and Applied Linguistics Conference, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.