Publications.

2024: “Twining as Critical Making: The Significance of Twine towards the Maker-turn of Queer Resistance in Bangladesh.” Accepted for publication in Entwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching with Twine, edited by Emily Murphy and Lai-Tze Fan, Amherst College Press.

2024: "Queering Bangladeshi Blogging Networks: Legal Rights, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Politics of Blog Publics in Bangladeshi LGBTQ+ Activism." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 10, no. 2 (2023): 93-117. muse.jhu.edu/article/923718.

2023: “Queer City: Interactive Storytelling through Twine as Queer archival resistance in Bangladesh.” Flow Journal: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 29, no. 6 (2023). https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/04/queer-city-interactive-storytelling/.

2022: “Project Dhee: Withstanding Heteropatriarchy and Queer-bashing in Bangladesh through Enclave Deshi Queer Activism.” Flow Journal: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 29, no. 2 (2022). https://www.flowjournal.org/2022/11/dhee-withstanding-heteropatriarchy/.

2022: “Queer Blogs and Digital Archives: A Tactical Shift towards Queer Utopia in Bangladesh.” Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space. 17 (2022): 1-11.

2019: “Diaspora Art and Critical Making: Critical Conversations, Collaborative Affordances, and World-building Possibilities.” Comparative Media Arts Journal 6, no. 1 (2019): 56-72.

2018: “Motivation in Digital Learning: Understanding Serendipitous EFL Learning through Cyberspace.” (with Nusrat Zahan Chowdhury). Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 9, no. 1 (2018): 140-149.

2016: “Do I Dare... Disturb the Fan(atic)? – Socio-psychological study of Sports Fanaticism, Identity Formation and the making of a Fan.” Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 7, no. 1 (2016): 107-116.

2014: “Trol(Po)litics – An Explanation to Internet Trolls: Virtual Consumerism vs. Cyber Marxism.” Wizcraft Journal of Language and Literature 2, no. 4 (2014): 89-96.

2013: “(Fe)Mal(e)icious Representation of Women in Cyberspace.” Peer reviewed contribution to Visualization of Women in Literature, Media, and Science. Edited by Rachel Bari. Women’s Resource Center, Kuvempu University, Karnataka. 2013.

Book Manuscript:

I am writing a monograph titled Mediated Sexualities: Negotiating LGBTQ+ Visibility in Digital South Asia. Currently working on a book proposal to be submitted to Columbia University Press. Target year for publication is 2025.

Conferences Presentations.

2024: “Queer Zines, Alternative Comics, Digital Storytelling, and a Decolonial Framework for Queer Media Activism in Bangladesh,” Symposium on South Asian Screen Cultures: In/Visible Archives and Stories, Annual Conference on South Asia. Madison, Wisconsin. November 2024.

2024: “Exploring networked discourses around Bangladeshi LGBTQ+ counter-histories through Humayun Ahmed's Ghetuputro Komola (2012),” SCMS 2024. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, Massachusetts. March 2024.

2024: “Challenges and Possibilities of Feminist and Queer World-making through Digital Media: Perspectives from Bangladesh,” Panel organized at SCMS 2024. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, Massachusetts. March 2024.

2023: “Digital Security Act 2018 and LGBTQ+ Oppression in Bangladesh: Negotiating Mediated Visibility in Anti-LGBTQ+ Contexts.” 4S 2023. Society for Social Studies of Science. Honolulu, Hawai’i. November 2023.

2023: “De-westernizing LGBTQ+ Media Activism: Exploring Colonial Legacies of Compulsory Heterosexuality in Bangladesh.” Panelist on Global Queer Media Activism in SCMS 2023. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Denver, Colorado. April 2023.

2022: “Decolonizing the Maker-turn: Twining and Critical Making as Queer Resistance and Media Activism in Bangladesh.” Panel on Bangladesh and Beyond: Digital Place-makers in PAMLA Conference 2022: Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian. Los Angeles, California. November 2022.

2022: “From Community Blogs to Queer Counterspaces: The formation of Blog-publics and Mondro’s Tactical Resistance in Bangladesh.” CP 2022. Console-ing Passions Conference. Orlando, Florida. June 2022.

2022: “Tactical Making as an Approach towards conceptualizing Queer Utopia in Bangladesh – A Critical Analysis of Project Dhee.” SCMS 2022. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Virtual Conference. April 2022.

2021: “Queer Blogs and Digital Archives – A Tactical Shift towards Queer Utopia in Bangladesh.” Global Fusion 2021 Conference. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. October 2021.

2021: “Critical Making as an Approach towards a Bangladeshi Queer Utopia.” Panelist on Colonialism, Counterhistories, and Methodization Panel with Victor Fan, Earl Jackson Jr., and Seerat Fatima. Queer Asia as Method Roundtable & Townhall. September 2021.

2021: “A Mandatory Proposal: The Past, Present, and Future of Critical Media Literacy in Bangladesh.” NAMLE 2021. National Association for Media Literacy Education. Virtual Conference. July 2021.

2021: “The Portrait of the Child as the Image Macro: Viral Media and the Legitimization of Platform Misogyny and Online Queer-bashing.” PCA 2021. Popular Culture Association. Virtual Conference. June 2021.

2021: “Locating Queer Bengal: In Search of a Bengali Queer Identity through Representational Cinema.” SCMS 2021. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Virtual Conference. March 2021.

2020: “Invisible South-Asian Queer Histories: Reclaiming Bengali Queer Identities through Digital Platform Narratives and Networked Resistances.” Global Fusion 2020 Virtual Conference. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois. October 2020.

2020: “Locating Queer Bengal: In Search of a Bengali Queer Identity through Representational Cinema.” SCMS 2020. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Denver, Colorado. April 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19).

2020: “Formulating Diversity and Representation in the Communication Discipline.” Panel co-organizer and participant with Joseph Lee, Alissa Duong, Craig Weathers, Michael Klajbor, and Evan Schares. WSCA 2020. Western States Communication Association. Denver, Colorado. February 2020.

2019: “Civic Engagement and Digital Media Literacy: The Role of Keyboard Warriors in Social Activism and Political Efficacy.” NAMLE 2019. National Association for Media Literacy Education. Washington D.C. June 2019.

2019: “NMT is Coming: Google Translator’s Journey from Statistical Machine Translation to Neural Machine Translation Algorithm and the Politics of Language Hierarchy.” 5th International Conference. Department of English, East West University. Dhaka, Bangladesh. January 2019.

2017: “Too cool, too curious – Following the Patterns of an (Un)Interested Mind Learning English Through Cyberspace.” National Conference on New Media and Identity Formation. Department of English, East West University. Dhaka, Bangladesh. January 2017.

Invited Talks and Workshops.

2023: “Queering Deshi Blogging Networks,” Center on Digital Culture & Society Colloquium, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, October 2023.

2023: “Emerging Trajectories of Interactive Storytelling and Writing Conventions for a Creative Economy,” Department of English, North Dakota State University, April 2023.

2023: “(R)aging like fine (T)wine,” Feminist Makerspace Workshop, Fashioning Circuits, The University of Texas at Dallas, March 2023.

2021: “The Work of Tactical Media Literacy in the Age of Techno-Cultural Media Saturation.” Rhizome Seminar Series, East-West University, Dhaka, March 2021.

2021: “What is Interdisciplinarity? Possibilities for Students in English Literature in the Schools of Critical Media Studies, Communication Studies, and Game Studies.” Writer’s Block Webinar Series, Jagannath University, Dhaka, April 2021.