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Author Bio
Author Bio
Nazua Idris is a third-year PhD student in Literary Studies in the Department of English, Washington State University. She obtained BA (Hons) in English and MA in English Literature from the Department of English, University of Dhaka and a second MA in Literary Studies from the Department of English, WSU. Before coming to WSU, she worked as a full-time faculty in the Department of English, East West University, Bangladesh. Her research interest involves the exploration of the intersections of 19th and early 20th century Anglophone global literature, textual studies, postcolonial and decolonial digital humanities, and digital and decolonial pedagogies.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Digital Technology and Culture Program, Fall 2020-
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Fall 2017-Spring 2020
Digital Projects
Designer and Book Manager of a collaborative Scalar Book titled MLA Convention 2020: Documenting a Graduate Course in Electronic Literature with Scalar,
https://scalar.usc.edu/works/english-561/index?path=index
Designer, Co-author, and Book Manager of collaborative Scalar Book titled Electronic Literature: Critical Engagements and Pedagogical Possibilities, https://scalar.usc.edu/works/english-561/electronic-literature-critical-engagements-and-pedagogical-possibilities?path=index
Designer and Author of a Scalar Project titled Re-Mapping Mansfield Park: In Search of the Silenced Spaces of Slave History,
https://cdsc.libraries.wsu.edu/scalar/re-mappping-mansfield-park- working-title/users/299
Selected Presentations
Electronic Literature: Critical Engagements and Pedagogical Possibilities (collaborative Scalar project), presented in a panel titled “Documenting a Graduate Course in Electronic Literature with Scalar,” at ELO special session “Making, Preserving, and Curating Born-Digital Literature,” MLA Convention 2020.
“Decolonizing Nineteenth-Century British Canonical Fiction through Digital Visualization Tools.” The 117th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), 2019.
“Reimagining a Black Future through Historical Re-emergences: Victor LaValle’s Destroyer as an Afrofuturist Text.” The 116th Annual Conference, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), 2018.
“De-Selfing as Defense: Anxieties of Inherited Political Selves in Sui Sin Far’s and Yiyun Li’s Memoirs.” The 72nd Annual Convention of the RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association), 2018.
Awards
WSU’s Learning Communities Excellence Award for 2020
Contact
Email: nazua.idris@wsu.edu
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