Safiyya Hosein

Safiyya Hosein is a PhD student in Communication and Culture (ABD) who was chosen as one of "Vice Media’s Motherboard" for their “Humans of the Year Series” for her dissertation project and comic book writing (2017). She is an intersectional feminist scholar specializing in Muslim representation in popular culture, comics, Muslim and female superheroes, and Muslim audiences. Her dissertation project was an audience study of young adult Muslim consumers of comic book superheroes. She has also been interviewed by Vice, Quill & Quire (Canadian publication), and the Spanish publication, Tebeosfera. Safiyya is a contributor to the Eisner-award nominated site, "Women Write about Comics", and has published several scholarly articles on Muslim superheroes, diversity, and political cartoons. She was invited to speak at Columbia University’s “Muslim Protagonist Symposium” in 2018, and has also contributed to several indie comic publications as a fiction writer.

Sub-specialties:

1. Muslim representation in graphic novels and superhero comics.
2. Muslim representation in popular culture.
3. Muslim superheroes.
4. Female superheroes.
5. Muslim audiences in the West.
6. Marginalized fandom.