Farisa Khalid, PhD

Dr. Farisa Khalid is a scholar of literary studies specializing in British literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. She has taught courses in a range of subjects, including the environmental humanities, science fiction, the history of Western theatre, film & animation, and the literature of travel. She is also an art historian by training and a specialist in various areas of British, North American, and South Asian art.

Ph.D. in English, George Washington University.

M.A. in Art History, New York University.

Twentieth-Century British Literature, Victorian Literature, Environmental Humanities, Science Fiction, Art History & Visual Culture.

1.  “They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney’s Mid-Century Era: The 1950s and 1960s by Didier Ghez.” Journal of Popular Film and Television. Vol. 49. Issue 1. 2021, pp. 67-68.
2.  “Good, Brave Causes: British Fiction of the 1950s.” Journal of Modern Literature. Vol. 44. No. 1. Fall 2021, pp. 191-196.
3. “Woolf’s Ambiguities: Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, and Feminist Precursors by Molly Hite.” Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 65. No. 3. Fall 2019, pp. 554-557.
4.  “The Bell and The Time of the Angels: The Philosophy of Love and Virtue in Iris Murdoch’s Ecclesiastical Fiction.” Studies in the Literary Imagination. Volume 51. No. 2. 2018, pp. 137-158.

1. “Science Fiction and Surveillance in Pixar’s WALL-E and Up.” Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films. Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury, 2021.

1. "'Turning an Honest Penny': Utilitarianism, Labor, and Loss in Washington Square." Modern Language Association Conference. January 5, 2023. San Francisco. Henry James Society.
2. “Technology, Innovation, and Modernism in Ward Kimball’s Animation of the 1940s and Beyond.” Popular Culture Association Conference 2019. Washington, DC.
3. “Faith and Secular Morality in Iris Murdoch’s The Time of The Angels.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference 2018. Pittsburgh.
4. “Awrah and Absence: The Photographs of Jowhara al-Saud and Shadi Ghadirian.” Brown University Graduate Art History Symposium. October 2011.
5. “The Prevalence of the Color Green in Miniature Paintings from the Kishangarh School.” University of Virginia Symposium in Art History. March 2011.

1. “Interview: After Busan Biennale, Yale Art Historian Urges Art World to Think Local.” AsiaBlog. Asia Society. February 7, 2013.
2. “Interview: Richard Slotkin Revisits America’s ‘Forgotten’ War, Korea.” AsiaBlog. Asia Society. May 1, 2013.