Shabana Sayeed

Dr. Shabana Sayeed (she/ her) is a lecturer at the Department of English and Media Studies at Bentley University. She teaches postcolonial and trauma literature courses and general and lab courses of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing. She received her doctoral degree in Literary Studies from the Department of English, Georgia State University. Her research focuses on the cross-disciplinary intersections between postcolonial trauma literature and history with a focus on Indian Dalit and pan-African black women, and refugee women in literature, social media, and media. Her secondary research engages with ethnic, religious, and cultural representations in transnational digital pedagogy and Artificial Intelligence. Several of her articles and manuscripts including a book translation (from Bengali to English) are under review and under preparation for publication. Her pedagogy advocates working with ESL, international, and non-native English speakers. Off campus, she is an amateur multi-lingual creative writer and mandala artist.