Intersectional Practices, Critical thinking, Trauma, Deconstruction, Fourth Space, First-world-Third-world, South-Asian Literature, African Literature, First-year Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing, Writing to Write Back
Undergraduate Courses:
EMS 104 Multimodal Communication (4 sections; Spring 2026)
EMS 101 Critical Reading and Writing (3 Sections; Fall 2025)
EMS 101 Critical Reading and Writing Honors (1 Section; Fall 2025)
EMS 380 Money, Love, and Death: Colonialism in Literature and Culture under the category of “Context and Perspectives: Race, Gender, and Inequality” (1 section; Spring 2025)
EMS 104 Critical Reading, Writing, and Multimodal Communication (2 sections; Spring 2025)
EMS 104 Critical Reading, Writing, and Multimodal Communication Honors (1 section; Spring 2025)
EMS 101 Critical Reading and Writing (2 sections; Fall 2024)
EMS 101 Lab Critical Reading and Writing (Fall 2024)
Subaltern Theory and Literature
Postcolonial Trauma Theories and Literature
Global Anglophone Literature
World literature
Global South Feminism
Womanism
Transnational Literary Practices
Refugee Women's Narratives
9/11 and American War Narratives
Gender and Sexuality
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
International and Transnational Trauma theories
Identity Politics
Cosmopolitan Identity Dynamics
World English and Literatures
Generational Trauma, PTSD, Moral Injury
Dr. Shabana Sayeed (she/ her) is a lecturer at the Department of English and Media Studies at Bentley University. She teaches postcolonial and trauma literature courses and general and lab courses of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing. She received her doctoral degree in Literary Studies from the Department of English, Georgia State University. Her research focuses on the cross-disciplinary intersections between postcolonial trauma literature and history with a focus on Indian Dalit and pan-African black women, and refugee women in literature, social media, and media. Her secondary research engages with ethnic, religious, and cultural representations in transnational digital pedagogy and Artificial Intelligence. Several of her articles and manuscripts including a book translation (from Bengali to English) are under review and under preparation for publication. Her pedagogy advocates working with ESL, international, and non-native English speakers. Off campus, she is an amateur multi-lingual creative writer and mandala artist.