Dr. Samira Sasani
© Samira Sasani
Junior Fellow (Dresden Fellowship Programme)
NameDr. Samira Sasani
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Chair of English Literary Studies
Chair of English Literary Studies
Visiting address:
Wiener Straße 48, Floor 3, Room 3.14 b
01219 Dresden
Dr. Samira Sasani is visiting the Chair of English Literatures (Prof. Dr. Horlacher) at the Institute of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, in the context of the Dresden Fellowship programme from April 1 to Juli 31, 2024.
Dr. Sasani completed her PhD in English Literature at Shiraz University, Iran, in 2012. Since then, she has been working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at Shiraz University.
At TU Dresden, she works on a research project on "The Myth of Modern Cities in Literature and Film: A City of Frankenstein". For this purpose, Dr. Sasani connects Iranian, English and French films and literary texts. Her main interest lies in the myth-forming quality of cities and their representation in literature and film as well as the "cross-cultural relations" that become apparent, for example between Paris, London and Tehran. During her stay, Dr. Sasani also offers a seminar on "Modernist and Postmodernist English Novels" as well as two public guest lectures.
Dr. Sasani's research interests include postcolonialism, migration novels and diaspora literature, Persian literature, and city and architecture in fiction and film. She has already published two monographs with German publishers. She has also received prizes and awards, as well as two invitations to the University of Toronto, Canada. She has been a member of the Comparative Literature Committee at the School of Literature and Humanities at Shiraz University since 2012.