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ZARA IMRAN
Class of 2022
BSc (Honors) Social Development & Policy
Minor: Comparative Literature
Aspiration Statement
I want to have a career in academia and to pursue my postgraduate studies in English Literature.
Core Skills
- Qualitative Research Skills
- Academic Writing
- Creative Writing
- Research
Academic Awards / Achievements
- Dean's List, Spring 2021
- Dean's List, Fall 2020
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- Tezhib Managerial Editor
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Graduate Teaching Assistant - University of IIlinois Chicago (Aug 2022 - present)
- Research Associate - Global Health Directorate (January 2021 - April 2021)
- Research & Teaching Assistant - Eric Shahzar (Nov 2020 - Aug 2021) | Part-time
- Research Assistant - Arif Hasan (July 2020 - August 2020)
- Managerial Editor - Tezhib: Undergraduate Research Journal
Publications / Creative Projects
- Female Mobility: Women Traversing Gendered Public Spaces in Karachi: Published in Tezhib Volume I
- Greater Visibility: DAWN Newspaper
- Precedent from History: DAWN Newspaper,
- An Unremembered Past: The Desi Collective
- Maskless-ness: Crack The Spine
Final Year Project
Description
This project uses Puar's theorization of the biopolitics of debility. I use this concept in relation to Butler's ideas on precarity and Agamben's theorization of bare life to chart out a yet undefined space through which neoliberal systems of recognition can be threatened. This dismantling is premised on recognition amongst communities, building solidarities and affinities amongst precarious and debilitated subjects. I am exploring the realization of these affinities through a literary analysis of Rankine's Citizen and Sacco's Palestine.