Cultural Studies | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:20:03 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Azzeddine Tajjiou /research/tubman/profile/azzeddine-tajjiou/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:05:53 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8490 Azzeddine Tajjiou is a Moroccan researcher, translator, and doctoral candidate in Comparative Postcolonial African Literatures at Mohammed I University. He specializes in African literary studies, focusing on 20th and 21st-century African literature and its global diasporas. His work critically examines cultural identity, colonial legacies, and societal transformation through a multidisciplinary lens, integrating comparative literature, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. Tajjiou also teaches English as an adjunct assistant faculty member at FPN-Mohammed I University. His academic research has been published in internationally recognized journals, presented at conferences in North America, Europe, and Africa, and complemented by his work as both a translator and creative writer.

Keywords: African Literature, Colonial/Post-Colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Comparative Literature

]]> Sayan Dey /research/tubman/profile/sayan-dey/ Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:11:33 +0000 /tubmandev/?post_type=profile&p=2295 Sayan Dey is a Bengali. He was born and brought up in Kolkata, and he traces his ancestry to different parts of Bangladesh. Currently, he works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Bayan College (affiliated with Purdue University Northwest), Oman. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship with Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2021-2023). He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Harriet Tubman Institute, ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ, Canada, a Critical Research Studies Faculty at The NYI Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, New York, and an Affiliated Member of the Global Posthuman Network. His latest monographs are Green Academia: Towards Eco-friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) and Performing Memories, Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean (Anthem Press, 2023). His research interests are posthumanism, decolonial studies, environmental studies, critical race studies, culinary epistemologies, and critical diversity literacy. He can be reached at

Keywords: Indian Ocean Studies, Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Studies, Culinary Epistemologies, Decolonial Studies, Sociology

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