Farida Abla
Affiliate Assistant Professor (June 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024)
Farida has expertise in many fields, including literature, autobiography, diaspora communities, women's life writings, feminist theory, translation and teaching. She holds a PhD in Humanities from Concordia University and is a certified translator (OTTIAQ & STIBC). She also has extensive experience teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) and university level courses in her field of expertise, such as “Feminism & Autobiography,” a course she taught at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia in 2019.
Her doctoral thesis, entitled Diasporic Iranian Women’s Life Writing: An Analysis Using a Transnational Feminist Lens, focuses on deconstructing the works of Iranian Women in diaspora in the US and Canada where they wrote autobiographies in English. She questions and analyzes the voices of Iranian women in diaspora using a transnational feminist lens. She studies the effects of the English language within diaspora literature, their portrayal in media and their reception and audience in North America in particular. She also explores the social, economic, political and religious circumstances they experienced and portrayed in their memoirs.
Research keywords
- Transnational Feminism; Iranian Women Diaspora
- Cultural Studies; Autobiographies; Life Writing