Azadeh Safaeian, PhD
2023 B2F Scholar
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About
Before joining UIC and the Department of Disability and Human Development as a Bridge to Faculty Scholar, Safaeian was a postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Literary Studies for the 2022-2023 academic year at Northwestern.
Safaeian's research and teaching interests include disability and trauma studies, care studies, postcolonial environmental humanities, animal studies, and film theory. Located at the intersection of critical disability studies and trauma theory, her current book project attends to the discursive and non-discursive representations of somatic pain and psychological trauma in the literatures and cinemas of minority groups in the context of the Middle East. Her project examines a selection of multiethnic war memoirs, novels, and films. Her research has been funded by several fellowships and awards, including the Social Science Research Council’s Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2020-2021) and the American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2021-2022).
Safaeian has a PhD and an MA in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University, a BA in English Literature from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and a BS in Biology from Azad University of Mashhad. She also holds certificates in Critical Theory (Northwestern), Middle East and North African Studies (Northwestern), Searle Teaching Program (Northwestern), and World Literature (Harvard University and the University of Tokyo). In addition to her native Persian and Kurdish (Kurmanji), she works in English, French, and Arabic.