Shaheen has many of years of experience in Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, Cinema Studies, Borderlands, Indigenous Studies and Media and Communication. She has done her MPhil in Visual Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), MA in Arts and Aesthetics from JNU, Post Graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai and BA in English Literature from Fergusson College, Pune. She is pursuing her PhD in Cultural Studies from Monash University, Melbourne.
She has received laurels as being a Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Critics Campus Fellow (2020), Faculty of Arts International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Monash University (2018), Zubaan- Sasakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers from the North-East of India (2018), Swedish South Asian Network (SASNET) Travel Grant to the SASNET Conference, Lund University in Sweden (2016), Indian Council for Social Science and Research (ICSSR) full travel grant for presenting paper at the University of Newscastle, Australia (2014).
Publications
- Co-authored paper with Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya – Transforming the ‘Lazy Native’ into the ‘Xenophobic Indigenous’: Contemporary Online Media Discourses and Illocutionary Speech Acts in Relation to Citizenship and Indigenous Assamese Communities, Journal of Global Indigeneity, Vol.5, Issue.2, 2021.
- Co-authored paper with Dr. Suryasikha Pathak – Voices from India’s Borderlands: Indigeneity and the De-Centering of Dissent against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies, ed. Deepra Dandekar, Vol.5, no. 1 (2020): 3-25. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.36886/nidan.2020.5.1.2
- The Re-Mapped Dialectics of Contemporary Indian Cinema: Kahaani and That Girl in Yellow Boots in ‘Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations’, eds. Amit Sarwal, Vikrant Kishore and Parichay Patra, Routledge: Oxford and New York, 2016.
- The Everyday as an Enactment of the Trauma of Being a Muslim Woman in India – A study of Two Artists in Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia’, eds. Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher, Routledge: London and New York, 2016.
- Televisualised Identities and their Politics: A Case Study of the Serial Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah in ‘The Coming of Consumer Society’, ed. Dr. Kulwinder Kaur, published by Manohar Books, Delhi, 2016.
