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I am an assistant professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, where I teach postcolonial and world literature, film and visual culture, literary theory, and writing. Before joining HBKU, I taught at Texas A&M University at Qatar, the University of Miami, and several other universities in the United States and abroad. Before working in higher education, I also worked as a travel writer in China, publishing essays and reportage in newspapers, magazines, and online publications.
My research focuses on literature and film connected to the Global South, particularly questions of war, migration, colonialism, humanitarianism, and political violence. I am interested in how literary and visual forms shape the way suffering, displacement, and dehumanization are understood and represented. Much of my work examines the relationship between narrative, ethics, and power, with particular attention to how literature and film challenge dominant political and cultural frameworks. I am always happy to connect with others working on related questions in literature, film, visual culture, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary humanities research.
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Baddawi and the Visual Politics of Memory: A Conversation with Leila Abdelrazaq
Scott, B. L., 9 Mar 2026, In: Comics Grid. 16, 1, p. 1-13 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Strategic vulnerability and decolonial pedagogy: rethinking literary and epistemic authority in the transnational Gulf classroom
Scott, B., 26 Jan 2026, In: Postcolonial Studies. 28, 2, p. 156-173 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Disconsolate Suffering: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing
Scott, B. L., 7 Sept 2025, In: Journal of Popular Culture. 59, 1, p. 22-37 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Teaching English in an engineering international branch campus: A collaborative autoethnography of our emotion labor
Hillman, S., Elsheikh, A., Abbas, N. & Scott, B., 25 Sept 2024, In: IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. 62, 3, p. 1349-1374 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences
Scott, B., 21 Jan 2021, In: Postcolonial Text.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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