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I am a lecturer with interests in contemporary postcolonial writing and film, and more specifically how this interescts with food studies. I am also very interested in popular culture, and when I can't find a way to research it, I am ususally consuming it for pleasure.
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.
I love teaching and I really enjoy my time in the classroom and lecture theatre. My approach is laid back but firm - I do believe students respond well to being challenged and occasionally put on the spot. I always strive to build a clear and collegial classroom identity, which helps students participate and enjoy the learning process. I am also always up for innovative class exercises and methods, and seek to continuously reinvigorate my pedagogic process with new ideas.
University of York: BA in English and Related Liteartures
University of Manchester: MA in Post-1900s Theories, Literatures and Cultures
University of Manchester: PhD in Postcolonial Literature and Writing
University of Manchester: Graduate Teaching Assistant 2009-2012
University of Lincoln: Lecturer 2013-2015
International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka Bangladesh: 2015-2016
English and Bangla
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.
Level 4 - Metropolis, Approaches to Narrative
Level 5 - American Spaces and Postwar to the Present
Level 6 - Reading and Writing Childrens Literature and Texting Britain, Texting the World
MA - Space, The Migrant Writer
M. Rahman (2022). Hunger and Postcolonial Writing. Taylor & Francis.
M. Rahman (2014). Bodily Secrets: The History of the Starving Body in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Forum for Modern Language Studies. 50(3), pp.275-288.
J. Wood, S. Antonella, . Silvia Taylor, B. Erin, M-J. Lucinda (2014). Making Historians Digitally: Social Bookmarking and Inquiry-based Learning in History in Higher Education in the UK. In: Inquiry-based learning for the arts, humanities, and social sciences : a conceptual and practical resource for educators.