Nadia Ahmed

Department of English

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

nadia_ahmed@ucsb.edu

https://www.english.ucsb.edu/people/ahmed-nadia

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020-Present

MSc (First Class) in Comparative Literature, Department of Language, Literatures and Cultures,

University of Edinburgh, 2018

MSc Thesis: “The Non-Western Woman in Simone de Beauvoir’s Image of Freedom and Self-Definition”

B.A., Department of English, Northeastern University, 2015

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL 15: Introduction to Shakespeare, Department of English,         

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL 39: Pan-Latinx Literature, Department of English,         

University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2021-22

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL 10: Introduction to Literary Studies, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2022

Instructor of ENGL 10: Introduction to Literary Studies, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2022

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL192SC: Speculations in Color, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2022

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL103A: American Literature 1789-1900, Department of

English, University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL128 NA: Native American and Indigenous Women, Queer,

Trans, and Two-Spirit Memoir, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant in INT 93LS: Introduction to Research in STEM, Humanities, and

Social Sciences, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL192SC: Speculations in Color, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL104LC: Literature and Culture, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Winter 2024

Graduate Teaching Assistant in ENGL192DF: Dystopian Fiction, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2024

Instructor of ENGL 50: Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2024

PUBLICATIONS

“Love’s Great Sultana and the Phallocentric Sultan: Islamic Projections in the

Libertine Visions of Aphra Behn and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.” The Eighteenth

Century: Theory and Interpretation (Making Revisions)

“Tigers, Humans, and Overlooked Opportunities.” Miscellany: An Early Modern Blog (Online), 2022

“Social Justice Handbook Series - Creating Another World: Gathering(s) Against Injustice.” The

Black Scholar (Online), 2020.

“Chaat.” Into the Void Magazine (Online), 2018.

EXHIBITIONS

“Where They Came to Rest”, Plant Images on HP5 Black and White film, CCBER Photography

Ecology Workshop, Conversations with Collections, Glass Box Gallery, University of

California, Santa Barbara, February 2022.

CAMPUS AND DEPARTMENT TALKS

Campus Talk

Temporary Water Walk, Literature and Environment Center, Devereux Slough, University of

California, Santa Barbara, January 2023 

Book Launch Speaker

Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific, Edited by Jeffery Santa Ana, Heidi

Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing, April 2023.

Papers Presented

“Gender and Language in Academic Writing Evaluation,” Decolonizing the Academy, Edinburgh,

UK, 2018.  

“Simone de Beauvoir and the Figure of the Arab Woman,” LLC Masters Conference, Edinburgh,

UK, 2018. 

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

TA Training Panelist, Teaching Assistant Orientation, Department of English, University

of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2023

Mock Examiner, First Qualifying Exam, Department of English, University

of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2023

Graduate Research Assistant, Literature and Environment Center, Department of English, University

of California, Santa Barbara, 2022-2023

Undergraduate Committee Representative, Department of English, University of

California, Santa Barbara, 2021-22

Anti-Racist Pedagogy Proposal to the Humanities and Fine Arts Department, Writer and

Collaborator, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021

Anti-Racism Praxis, Writer and Collaborator, Department of English,

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020

Department Writing Guide, Editor and Collaborator, Department of Languages, Literatures, and

Cultures, University of Edinburgh, 2019

Peer Review Writing Workshops (8), Organizer, Department of Languages, Literatures and

Cultures, University of Edinburgh, 2018