Nida Choudary
Nida Choudary is a fourth-year English major. Her honors thesis researches works about South Asian Muslims living in the west. Her project confronts questions about assimilation after 9/11 and its complication in an age of fear and racialization. Furthermore, she explores what American identity is after 9/11 and who has access to it. She studies these questions through two novels: Home Fire and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Her goal is to pursue graduate studies and track the development of South Asian Muslim literature from the 20th century to the contemporary age of Brexit and ISIS.
Nida Choudary is a fourth-year English major. Her honors thesis researches works about South Asian Muslims living in the west. Her project confronts questions about assimilation after 9/11 and its complication in an age of fear and racialization. Furthermore, she explores what American identity is after 9/11 and who has access to it. She studies these questions through two novels: Home Fire and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Her goal is to pursue graduate studies and track the development of South Asian Muslim literature from the 20th century to the contemporary age of Brexit and ISIS.