Hiba Aleem

Before joining KHC, Hiba Aleem taught Literary Methods, Academic Writing, and Global Literature and Film in the Department of English, Writing, and Communication at Emmanuel College, Boston. She has also been a Fulbright Scholar from Washington College, Chestertown, and has more than seven years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in English literature, postcolonial literatures in English, and academic writing. She is the co-editor of a two-volume anthology on Asian popular culture, Contemporary Asian Popular Culture: Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias (Palgrave, 2025) and Contemporary Asian Popular Culture: Cultural Dynamics and Global Impact (Palgrave, 2024), and her work has also been published in Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis (Routledge), ImageText, and JSL, with two forthcoming papers on the intersections between gender, race, and globalization in press with Routledge and Lexington Books.

Her research and pedagogical interests lie in digital rhetoric, popular culture, women’s studies, comics studies, and postcolonial and global literatures in English, and she has presented invited talks and papers on the intersections between gender and nationalism, narrative, rhetoric,  social media, and inclusivity in education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emmanuel College, Central Connecticut State University, Assumption University, and Delhi University.