Department of English

Neelofer Qadir

Email: n_qadir@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3117

Education

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012
B.A. Pace University (NYC), 2007

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Neelofer Qadir is a scholar and teacher of contemporary literary and cultural studies of the Global South with a focus on the Indian Ocean world. Currently, she’s working on her first book, Afrasian Imaginaries: Global Capitalism and Labor Migration in Indian Ocean Fiction, 1990 – 2015, which moves beyond familiar colonizer-colonized binaries to examine the dynamic multidirectional longue durée exchanges among Indian Ocean communities. A second project on terror/isms investigates the intersections of global capitalism and carceral statecraft through an archive of literature (poetry, memoir, fiction), political speeches and government documents, and digital/social media.

Her teaching interests include 20th and 21st century literary and cultural studies focusing on Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean; colonialism, postcolonialism, and empire studies; histories of global capitalism; race, gender, and sexuality studies.

Selected Publications

“Migritude‘s Decolonial Lessons.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies in a special issue on Indian Ocean Trajectories. July 2018.

https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2018.1462934

Co-translated into Urdu with Fauzia and Syed Qadir. “The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright” by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Jalada Translation Issue 01. October 2017.

Contributing writer, GradHacker (2017-2019), on pedagogy, research and writing, and the job market for PhDs.

Awards and Honors

Five College Women’s Studies Research Associateship (2018-19) UMass Amherst English’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship (2017) UMass Amherst Graduate School’s Dissertation Fellowship (2016)

UMass Amherst English Research Grant (2016) for archival research in South Africa

Links

Neelofer Qadir’s Professional Website