Farisa Khalid

@drfarisakhalid.bsky.social

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PhD in English. Art historian. English professor specializing in British literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, genre studies (science fiction, spy fiction), and the environmental humanities. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/734326

Photo by Craig Baxter, a New Zealand photographer.
The poem series MERYTON, based on the story and characters of Jane Austen’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Written by the Irish poet and playwright Frank McGuinness. This poem is called “Mrs. Bennett”.
A photo of my hand holding my glass of iced matcha latte (a light green color) at a wooden table at my local café. A lighted Christmas tree stands outside.
Buildings in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia lined with Christmas decorations, mostly dark green wreaths and pine trimmings. The buildings are painted in the typical vibrant colors one encounters along the streets of Alexandria and Georgetown: pale shell pink and cornflower blue.
The interior of the Christmas Shop in Williamsburg , Virginia on Merchants Square. It operates year-round. Sunlight streams into the room. The room is filled with various artificial holiday-themed bouquets, boughs of holly, wreaths, and a tree covered in ornaments.
A picture of my hand holding a mince pie. I wanted to show its dense dark interior.
A large well-lit Christmas tree in Union Station in Washington, DC
The bomboloni at Blackbird Bakery in Williamsburg, Virginia. This beloved neighborhood gem closed in the spring of 2024. It was famous for its bombolonis, which alternated every day, every week. This one, if I remember, was caramel maple-or something.
The front page of Farisa Khalid’s PhD dissertation from George Washington University which was defended in May 2021. The title is ‘The Figure of the Spy in British Cold War Fiction and Drama from Elizabeth Bowen to Tom Stoppard.’
A black and white photograph of the playwright Tom Stoppard looking out of a train window in Darjeeling, India. Taken in 1990. White puffs of smoke emerge from the train. Green bushy hills lie in the background. The photograph is by Karan Kapoor, the son of the actor Shashi Kapoor.
A photograph of the account holder standing in front of a painting.
A photograph, a selfie, of the account holder walking and wearing sunglasses.