Thesis title: Romanticism, Oriental History, and the Literary Construction of Occidental Identity: Gender, Religion, and Liberty.
Supervisor: Professor Ros Ballaster
I am a third-year DPhil in English student. I am an Oxford-Qatar Thatcher Graduate scholar and a Fulbright alumna. My research interests include Romanticism, Orientalism, and names and onomastics. I am interested in the historical traces in Romantic texts of the Orient and Islam, with particular attention to female historical figures. I am also interested in the interconnections between history, politics, and literature.