Mushira Habib, PhD

Mushira Habib has over 16 years of college-level teaching experience in Bangladesh and three different states in the U.S.A.—seven departments in total. Her current research interests are affect, neurodivergence, disability studies, comparative literature, multiethnic American literature, South Asian literatures, Media and Cultural studies, Poetry and Poetics. She has diverse experiences of working in academia in various capacities. For instance, she was a Culturally Responsive Teaching Research Assistant for University of Oregon’s English Department. She served as a Mentor, Mentorship Coordinator and Research Assistant for the Department of Comparative Literature’s Undergraduate Journal. At BRAC University, she was the primary adviser for all English majors, supervising many theses and internship reports for literature and media concentrations, while also being responsible for internship placements of media majors.

She served as the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion for University of Oregon’s graduate employee union, founded their International Graduate Employees Advocacy Committee, and chaired the International Graduate Employees Caucus to represent and fight for the rights of this community’s unique struggles. She represented UO’s graduate employees at the American Federation of Teachers-Oregon’s (AFT-OR) Winter School, wrote and passed many resolutions on human rights at the AFT-OR and AFL-CIO’s (The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) annual conventions for multiple years.

Ph. D. in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2024.

M.A. in English, University of Maine, 2016.

M.A. in English, BRAC University, 2011.

B.A. in English, BRAC University, 2009.

Affect, Comparative Literature, Neurodivergence, Gender, Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy, Multiethnic American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Bollywood, South Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Memory Studies, Life Writing, etc.

Awards

• Graduate Student Research Grant. Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), University of Oregon. 2022.
• The Summer Writing Fellowship. Department of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon. 2022.
• BIPoC Leadership Award. Department of English, University of Oregon. 2022.
• Graduate Assistant for Culturally Responsive Teaching in Composition (Summer). Department of English, University of Oregon. 2021.
• Exemplary Teaching in Equity & Inclusion Award. Department of English, University of Oregon. 2021.
• Portfolio Appeals Committee Member. Department of English, University of Maine. 2016.
• Albert Morton Turner Prize in the Critical Essay. Department of English, University of Maine. 2015.

1. “Poetic Memoryscapes and Affective Landscapes.” (Under Review) Poems and Places, Paideuma; 51. Spring. 2026.
2. “Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Rankine!” Poems We Live With, Paideuma; 50. Fall. 2024.
3. “Colonizing Assemblages and Colonial Biopolitics in Postcolonial India.” Governance and Resistance: Biopolitical Readings of the 19th Century. Department of English, University of Maine. 2016.
4. “Rebels through Updike and Desai’s Lenses.” BRAC University Journal, Vol. 10. 2013.
5. “Black Desires, White Beauties.” Stamford Journal of English, Vol 6. 2011.