Farah Nada

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College: College of Humanities
Discipline: English
Department: English and Creative Writing
Research Centre/Unit: Humanities

I am a PhD candidate in English, researching space, movement, and processes of exit and departure in the work of Elizabeth Bowen. My thesis is supervised by Professor Laura Salisbury and Dr. Beci Carver

I hold a Bachelor of Arts (2014, Magna Cum Laude) in English Literature and Mass Communication (with a concentration in Journalism) from the American University of Sharjah, and a Masters of Arts (2016, Distinction) in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Studies from Durham University. My MA dissertation, supervised by Dr. Simon Grimble, examined mourning and the figure of "the gentleman" in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier through Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok’s theories of cryptonymy.

Before starting my PhD at Exeter, I was a visiting researcher at the American University of Sharjah, working in collaboration with Susan Smith and the Speak Trauma Foundation to examine historical trauma and perceived cultural losses among United Arab Emirates (UAE) migrant youths. Funded by a faculty research grant, the study followed students from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Iraq, and Tunisia, and the resulting paper was published in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture in 2018

My most recent publication is on aural incursions in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and Iris Murdoch's The Red and the Green, co-authored with Arka Basu (University of Auckland). It was published in English Studies in 2022 and can be accessed here

In October 2023, I became a board member of the Elizabeth Bowen Society.

I have presented papers at the following conferences: SEAC 2023: Cardinal Points and Regions in Contemporary British Literature and Arts (Universite de Lille, Oct. 2023); Bodies and Boundaries in Irish and American Literature (Dublin City University, Sept. 2023); ACIS 2022: Pasts, Presents, and Futures (University of Georgia (Online), April 2022); Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological Worlds (University of York (Online), May 2021); New Work in Modernist Studies (Dec. 2020 (Online); Dec. 2021 (Online); Loughborough University, Dec. 2022); Elizabeth Bowen Symposium (Birkbeck, Feb. 2020); MSA 2019: Upheaval and Reconstruction (Toronto, Oct. 2019); Modernism in the Home (University of Birmingham, July 2019). 

As an undergraduate, I was a fellow of the university's Department of English. In this role, I co-founded the department's first online academic journal Asrar: Dialogues from the Diaspora, co-editing the first two issues. 

I am a three-time recipient of the American University of Sharjah's Chancellor's Award and, upon graduating, was awarded the Department of Mass Communication's Merit Award for Academic Excellence.

I speak English, Arabic, and French.

You can find me on X (formerly Twitter): @farahanada