In this conversation, scholar and content creator Queenie Sukhadia shares insights into finding supportive mentorship, and encourages scholars to find (or create) the platforms that best serve their scholarship and audience. Her Instagram project, Academia for All, is described on our page of Offshoot Projects.

This interview was recorded by Jess Applebaum on November 21, 2022.

PDF Transcript: Interview with PublicsLab Fellow Queenie Sukhadia

“The public no longer remains this amorphous thing out there that people inside the academy are trying to reach. We really end up trying to name these publics and why they form a public in these specific ways.

– Queenie Sukhadia

Queenie Sukhadia holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation, Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/Disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives, focused on questions of secondary witness—how we receive the narratives of those testifying to atrocities—in global testimonial literature. Queenie is also a creative writer and published a collection of short stories, A City of Sungazers, in 2017. She also holds a BA in English (with high honors) and Psychology from Dartmouth College and an MA in English (with distinction) from Georgetown University. Queenie now holds a full-time position as a content designer at LinkedIn.

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