Kasim Husain has a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. His research focuses on the emergence of the so-called “model minority” in contemporary British culture and fiction. His work has appeared 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. Other interests include decolonial pedagogy, empathy, Islamophobia, neoliberalism, and the podcast as media form and research method.