Samia Khan

I am a PhD scholar in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. I am a bibliophile and someone who enjoys traveling. My academic background is in History and Visual Studies, which includes three degrees, B.A History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University; M.A History (Medieval) and MPhil in Visual Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. For my MPhil dissertation I explored the different ideas about self fashioning among modern women and their portrayal in visual and literary cultures. I have diverse research interests, which include popular culture, literature, cinema, subaltern history, gender and power relations, colonialism, nationalism, religion and aesthetics.

Complexities of women’s identity and their experiences have fascinated me as a scholar. My PhD explores Muslim women’s marginalisation in the meta-narratives of the nationalist imagination examining their contributions in the intellectual, political, social, visual and cultural dynamics of 20th century India. My research focuses on analysing the interplay between nationalism, colonialism, religious identities, global cultural assimilation and their manifestation in modern literary, oral, visual cultures and women’s lived experiences.

Cultural Studies at Queen’s University provides scholars with the structural and methodological space to engage with and produce a holistic research.