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Ms Motahhareh Zanganeh

Member in the Department of English Studies

Biography

While studying for an MA in English Literature at Mysore University in India, I came to know prominent African American women writers such as Toni Morrison, Zora neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker. Exploring Alice Walker's concept of womanism, I became interested in the complicated sometimes perplexing depiction of female friendship and sisterhood. In my current PhD project I take up the recurrent theme of homosociality in Toni Morrison's works, drawing on drawing on various theoretical discourses of gender, sex, race and class. My research examines the 'positive' and 'negative' forms of female homosociality as found in Toni Morrison's novels from across her career. This work is supervised by Dr. Jennifer Terry in the Department of English Studies