Dr. Noor Hashem

Areas of Expertise

literature, gender studies, culture

Biography

Dr. Noor Hashem is a creative and scholarly writer whose work explores Muslim literature, North American ethnic literature and world literature. She earned her M.F.A. in Fiction and Ph.D. in English Literature at Cornell University and held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Her research draws on critical theory, cultural studies and gender studies.

Her fiction, nonfiction and scholarship examine faith, social agency, multicultural literacy and social justice. Her work has appeared in New Letters, Mizna and Consequence Magazine, and she received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Art Fellowship in 2018. Her teaching includes Muslim literature, Muslim science fiction, world literature and creative writing. She previously taught with Boston University’s CAS Writing Center and has provided creative-writing and pedagogy instruction for Syrian refugees and educators in Turkey.

Selected Publications and Work

Hashem, Noor. “Muslim American Speculative Fiction: Figuring feminist epistemologies, religious histories, and genre traditions,” The Muslim World, special issue on ‘Anglophone Muslim Women Writing’ 111.2 (May 2021): 167-190. Hashem, Noor. "Creative Ritual: Embodied Faith And Secular Reason In Contemporary Muslim Fiction." (2015). Hashem, Noor. “‘The Feast of Ants’: The bodily agency of Quranic storytelling in Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies, special issue on ‘The Qur’an and modern world literature’ 16.3 (October 2014): 39-61. Hashem, Noor. Book review of Geoffrey Nash’s "Writing Muslim Identity." Twentieth Century Literature 59:1 (2013): 189-195. Hashem, Noor. “Fugitive Spaces,” New Letters, 79.3-4 (Spring/Summer 2013)

Selected BIS Teaching

• IRL-612 Islam in America

These are courses taught at BIS. For current academic information, explore the graduate program.