Tania Islam is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Temple University. Originally from Kolkata, India, Tania came to Temple University in 2014. While at Temple, along with her second M.A. degree, Tania has also earned the Teaching in Higher Education certificate. A former teaching assistant from 2016-21, Tania was the Fall 2018 Graduate Practicum Mentor, the 2020-21 Graduate Composition Assistant to the First-Year Writing Program, and a summer 2021 graduate extern with the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. Presently, she is a 2021-22 Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT), and the Spring 2022 awardee of the Dissertation Completion Grant. Her research interests include multiethnic women’s fiction, trauma studies, and narratology. She has taught first-year composition, General Education courses (such as “Eating Cultures” and “The Detective Novel”) and other literature courses. Two of her essays are forthcoming in an upcoming anthology on T.S. Eliot and three of her scholarly articles are presently under review in peer-reviewed journals. Tania holds a B.A. (with honors) from St. Xavier’s College (Kolkata, India) and a M.A. from University of Calcutta (India) both in English Literature.
When she is not busy researching and writing her dissertation, Tania enjoys going on walks, listening to podcasts, and watching food and travel videos on YouTube. You can read more about her research here.
She can be contacted at tania.islam@temple.edu.
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