Teaching Fellow
Research Interests: Critical and Cultural Studies Theories; Postcolonial Theories; Political Theories; Critical Education Theories; Indigenous Education; Decolonization; South Asian Identity and History; Indigeneity in South Asia;
E-mail: tt55@queensu.ca
Office hours: Upon appointment via email request.
Education
Ph. D.: Current-Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Studies, Queen’s University
M. A.: M.A. in Advanced Studies in Linguistics (Magna Cum Laude), Ghent University,Belgium
M.A. in Applied Linguistics & ELT, Dhaka University, Bangladesh
B. A. B.A. (Hons) in English, Dhaka University, Bangladesh
About
Tanzina Tahereen is a Ph.D. candidate at Cultural Studies program, Queens University. For her Ph.D. research, she is working with the Adibashi/Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh to investigate how the education system in Bangladesh, especially the standardized high stakes testing system manifests the nationalist political approach of the dominant Bengali elites discriminating and marginalizing these Adibashi communities. She examines the colonial history of South Asia as well as Bangladesh and its nation-building process to look at how this evolvement of nationalism informs the colonial relationship between the Bengali elites and the Adibashi Peoples.
She has received Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2020-2021); she was in the waiting list of SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship Award (2020).
She taught courses on Linguistics for 6 years at the tertiary level in Bangladesh. She has also published papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented papers in conferences.
Recent Conferences:
Guest Speaker. “Ethnocentrism in education in Bangladesh.” East West University Seminar Series, Bangladesh, September 17, 2020; Presenter. “Nation-led-Textbooks in School: Voicelessness of Indigenous/Adibashi Peoples in Bangladesh.” Congress 2020, Western University. Presenter. “Education for all in Bangla: Subtractive Linguistic Influence on Minority languages.” RBJSE 2020, Queen’s University. Presenter. “The Politics of ‘Naming’ and ‘Un-naming’: Nationalism and Colonized Adibashi in Bangladesh”. UnDisciplined 2019. Queen’s University. Presenter. “The Structural Violence of Post-Colonialism in Bangladesh: Education for Adibashi Communities”, Global History Initiative, 2019. Queen’s University.
Teaching
Winter 2021-LLCU 295 004: Language, Culture & Identity in South Asia