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Tehmina Pirzada is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on cultural constructions of South Asian adolescence, visual studies, postcolonial literatures, youth cultures, and autoethnographic narratives of breast cancer. She has been recognized with prestigious awards including the NON/HUMANITY fellowship (2022), Qatar Foundation grant (2022), and a Fulbright Scholarship (2012). Her interdisciplinary work bridges literature, film, and digital cultures, emphasizing intersectional identities and social justice.
Her teaching emphasizes ethical inquiry through speculative literature and dark academia aesthetics. Courses include Moral Quandaries in Dystopian Worlds, exploring techno-surveillance and eco-collapse, and Shadows and Scholars, analyzing power dynamics in academic and cultural narratives.
Notable publications include analyses of South Asian war comics, cinematic empire narratives, and girlhood studies in graphic novels. Her work appears in journals like Boyhood Studies, Girlhood Studies, and South Asian Review.
