Hiba Ahmed

Hiba is a full time thinker and part time teacher, writer, and researcher. Several things have piqued her interest throughout her life but her fascination with language is what drove most of her academic decisions. It was 2016 and her last year in JNU when things shifted in her academic as well as personal life and she began critically engaging with questions around identity. That is when she formally picked up and apart the “curious case of the Indian Muslim” for her Mphil thesis at Delhi University.

The intertwined politics of language and identity continued to govern her philosophy as a scholar and teacher during her stint as a Fulbright FLTA at Yale. Hiba has taught students from extremely diverse backgrounds and those interactions have given her some of the most profound lessons of her life. She strives to make her classrooms a safe space for all her students and whether she is teaching language, literature or communication skills, she makes sure her students realise that they do not exist in a vacuum, and that nothing is apolitical.