Fields of Interest
Biography
Saad Khan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality studies at University of Washington. His dissertation titled "Nascent moves: Loss, Desire, In/Visible Resistances in Bangladesh" is an ethnographic study that asks: What queer becomings look like in contexts of neoliberal development in postcolonial Muslim modernities? His research examines emerging strategies and spaces of queer organing shaped by indeterminacies and trans/national legibility or illegibility of organizing methods and sites. It theorizes a sociology of queer politics that moves beyond frameworks of progress, development, and visibility.
Khan worked at James P. Grant School of Public Health, Brac University as a Senior Research Associate, where he coordinated qualitative research and advocacy projects on sexual and reproductive health and rights education and curriculum development for adolescents and designed flagship courses. He has conducted workshops on youth leadership, queer research, and grant writing. He has received fellowships from The Social Science Research Council, Swedish Institute, Simpson Center for the Humanities (UW), and US Dept. of State.
Recent publications:
Queering the archive: The in-between and fleeting
Dhee: Unknowability and queering realities in Bangladesh
Research
Selected Research
- Khan, Saad Adnan, Farhana Alam, Els Rommes, and Sabina Faiz Rashid. 2020. "Experiencing shame: An affective reading of the sexual and reproductive health and rights classroom in Bangladesh." Sex Education: 1-15.
- Khan, Saad Adnan, Alam, Farhana. (2019). "Exploring Disability Across Intersections of Gender and Sexuality in Bangladesh." [Gender and disability]. Peace Prints, 5 (1).
- National Women's Studies Association, Annual Conference, 2019.
- Khan, Saad Adnan, Hossain, Tanveer. Forthcoming. “Queer prints, publics, and counterpublics in Bangladesh: The coherent, invisible, and ephemeral”. Queer Prints Anthology. University of Toronto Press.
- Khan, Saad. 2020. "Queering the archive: The in-between and fleeting". Shuddhashar, 20.