Dr. Tania Islam

Present Position: Assistant Professor

Department of Language and Literature, School of Liberal Arts and Culture Studies

E-mail: tania1.islam@adamasuniversity.ac.in

Education:

  • Ph.D. in English, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
  • M.A. in English, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
  • M.A. in English, University of Calcutta, India
  • B.A. (Hons.) in English, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India

Research Key Areas:

  • 20th/21st contemporary fiction
  • American Literature
  • Transnationalism
  • Trauma Studies
  • Memory Studies

Experience:

  • Assistant Professor, Adamas University, Kolkata, India (October, 2022-present)
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. (2016-21)
  • Graduate Research Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. (2021-22)

Research Publication (s):

Book Chapters

  1. “T.S. Eliot and his ‘The Second Order Mind’”. The Unspoken Words: A Study of T.S. Eliot’s Critical Writings, edited by Sarbojit Biswas and Saptarshi Mallick, New Delhi: Alfa Publishing House, 2021, 123-30.
  2. “Goethe: Poet, Sage, Great European”. The Unspoken Words: A Study of T.S. Eliot’s Critical Writings, edited by Sarbojit Biswas and Saptarshi Mallick, New Delhi: Alfa Publishing House, 2021, 149-52.
  3. Groner, Rachael and Tania Islam. “Sustaining Empathy and Community in a Large First-Year Writing Program”. PARS for Writing Programs, edited by Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle (forthcoming)

  Conference Presentations

  1. Islam, Tania (February 5, 2021) “Erasures and Elisions: Silenced History and the Role of Women in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”, Liminality in Literature and Language: Affect and Migration, Temple University, virtual conference.
  2. Groner, Rachael, Cate Almon, Tania Islam, and Anne Layman-Horn (March 26, 2021) “Replacing the Hallway Conversation: Creating Community During the Pandemic and Beyond” (roundtable discussion), Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators Conference, York College of Pennsylvania, virtual conference.
  3. Islam, Tania (November 5, 2021) “Gastronomic Icebreakers: How to Jazz up Class Introductions” (lightning talk), Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators Conference, Temple University, virtual conference.

Sponsored Talks

  1. CHAT Writers of Color Series: Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee. Book club conversation hosted by the Center for the Humanities at Temple University and led by Dr. Srimati Mukherjee, Dr. Rebeca Hey-Colon, and Tania Islam (November 9, 2021).
  2. CHAT Distinguished Speaker Series: In Conversation with Dina Nayeri. Hosted by Center for the Humanities at Temple University and led by Tania Islam (November 11, 2021).

 

Scholarly Articles Under Review

  1. Islam, Tania. “Eating Cultures: How What We Eat Tells a Lot About Us”
  2. Islam, Tania. “A Teachable Moment: Gastronomic Class Introductions and Inclusivity”
  3. Islam, Tania. “Erasures and Elisions: Silenced History and the Role of Women in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”.
  4. Islam, Tania. “Scheherazade’s Daughter: Dina Nayeri and the Iranian Art of Storytelling in A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea”
  5. Islam, Tania. “Toxic Masculinity vs Femininity in Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”
  6. Islam, Tania. “These are The Things I Should Not Forget: Memory and Identity Formation in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter”

Book Project

  1. Untold Stories: The Power of Storytelling in Ethnic American Women’s Fiction (expected completion, 2023)