Dr Muzna Rahman
Senior Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
University of York: BA in English and Related Literatures
University of Manchester: MA in Post-1900s Theories, Literatures and Cultures
University of Manchester: PhD in Postcolonial Literature and Writing
Previous employment
University of Manchester: Graduate Teaching Assistant 2009-2012
University of Lincoln: Lecturer 2013-2015
International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka Bangladesh: Visiting Researcher 2015-2016
Languages
English and Bangla
Interests and expertise
I am a Senior Lecturer of Critical English Studies. My research focuses primarily on contemporary Postcolonial writing and film, and more specifically how this intersects with the interdisciplinary field of Food Studies. My other research and teaching interests include contemporary American Literature and Media, Popular Culture, Critical Race Studies, Feminism and Eco-criticism.
Teaching
Why do I teach?
I am a lecturer in contemporary postcolonial and world literature generally, more specifically I look at representations of food and hunger in literature and film. I love reading and watching movies, and I find myself in the lucky position of examining fascinating texts for a job. I get great joy of being able to share this love with energetic students.
How I’ll teach you
I love teaching and I really enjoy my time in the classroom and lecture theatre. My approach is laid back but firm - I believe students respond well to being intellectually challenged. I always strive to build a clear and collegial classroom identity and continuously innovative my pedagogic approach with new ideas and methodologies.
Why study…Global Literatures?
The study of world literature is incredibly important in our ever increasingly globalized world. I hope that students gain valuable international perspective in their study of writing and film from countries and cultures outside of the usual British/western canon. It is vital these globally-focused texts are read alongside and against more familiar texts in order to recuperate historical narratives that may be hidden or covered over by more dominant understandings of how the world works and how it became that way, especially when important contexts such as colonialization and imperialism are involved.
Subject areas
Contemporary Postcolonial Writing, World Literature and Food Studies
Supervision
Feth-Ella Mahi, project – ‘Transcolonial Algerian Diasporic Writing. Director of Studies.
Research outputs
Monographs
Hunger and Postcolonial Writing. Routledge, 2022.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Rahman, M. Hunger and Postcolonial Writing.
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Chapters in books
Wood, J., Antonella, S., Silvia Taylor, , Erin, B., Lucinda, M.J. 'Making Historians Digitally: Social Bookmarking and Inquiry-based Learning in History in Higher Education in the UK.' Inquiry-based learning for the arts, humanities, and social sciences : a conceptual and practical resource for educators.
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Journal articles
Rahman, M. 'Consuming Brexit: alimentary discourses and the racial politics of Brexit.' The Open Arts Journal, (8) pp. 71-82.
Rahman, M. '“Covert Communications: Food in Transition in Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox.”.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(4) pp. 484-497.
Rahman, M. 'Bodily Secrets: The History of the Starving Body in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions.' Forum for Modern Language Studies, 50(3) pp. 275-288.
Press and media
“The historical roots of your lockdown sourdough obsession” in The Conversation. Reprinted in ‘i’ News, Yahoo! News, Inverse Magazine and RTE, May 2020, https://theconversation.com/the-historical-roots-of-your-lockdown-sourd…