![]() Hizer’s dissertation examines how disabled students and faculty in higher education navigate academic ableism through embodied, rhetorical tactics of resistance. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersection of disability studies, rhetorical theory, writing studies pedagogy, and community literacy. Hizer is a PhD Candidate in English specializing in rhetoric and composition.in Comparative Literature and Creative Writing from Brown University. She is currently a PhD candidate (ABD) in English Literature at Indiana University, where she received her MA in 2020. magazine, among other national publications. Her journalism has appeared in Slate, HuffPost, Business Insider, and Inc. Other academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in the journals Modernism/Modernity, Feminist Modernist Studies, The Modernist Review, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, and the edited collections Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century and The Routledge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Women thus turned the city’s presumed open and collective dimensions into a private landscape in the service of liberation. It argues that women negotiated visibility in the twentieth-century city by using its resources as a metaphorical stage play to remain “private in public.” From the fin de siècle to the incipient Civil Rights Movement, the novels, poems, and performances surveyed reflect the emergence of women in public space, where new forms of waged labor and increasing sexual freedoms came coupled with risks. Her first book, "The Public Interior: Modernism, Theatricality, and Interracial Aesthetics," desegregates the landscape of modernist studies by reevaluating narrative form in texts by interracial women writers. Henry is a Bloomington-based writer and literary critic.During her free time, Hrishita scribbles verses and poems on paper that she calls "artistic rants". Some of her favorite authors are Jhumpa Lahiri, Ania Loomba, Mahashweta Devi and Amrita Pritam. Hrishita is an Associate Instructor of Composition at IU, Bloomington and is an ardent reader of postcolonial literature of the Indian diaspora. Before joining Indiana University, Bloomington, Hrishita completed her B.A in English from Lady Brabourne College in Kolkata, India and her M.A in Literatures in English from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She delves into the cultural spectrum of "desire" and the rudiments of "life-worlds" of the transgender communities and in the grand scheme of her research would want to make a paradigm shift from mainstream autobiographies and probe into the undocumented life narratives of the subaltern queer. She is interested in mapping how transgender identities are shaped through social performances and visible spaces (like pride walks and nightclubs) that are reflected in the autobiographies that they write. is a Literature PhD student with contemporary autobiographical studies as her prime focus.Fellowships, Awards & Teaching Opportunities.Interdepartmental Major in AAADS & English.The College of Arts & Sciences Department of English
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