Kasim Husain has a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. His most recent teaching has focused on topics and approaches such as decolonial pedagogy, empathy, neoliberalism and the cultural politics of race, reception theory, social media, and the podcast as media form and research method. His research background examines the emergence of the so-called “model minority” as a figure in contemporary British culture and fiction. He has published peer-reviewed research in Postcolonial Text and South Asian History and Culture, as well as a co-authored chapter with Sarah Brophy on new directions in queer British fiction in the Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945.