Detailseite Dr. Aryan

I am a Research fellow and part-time lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies. I hold a PhD in contemporary literature from Durham University. I also carried out a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Tübingen. My research interests are postmodernism, contemporary literature and the medical humanities. I am also an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, am a reviewer for A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Wiley), Literature Compass (Taylor & Francis) and Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal (Warwick University). I am the founder of Literature and Science forum which is a platform to foster interdisciplinary studies in the medical and digital humanities.

I lead and teach the following courses:

Medical Humanities: Fiction as Therapy

Postmodernist Fiction and Theory

Metamodernism: Fiction in the Age of Risk and Anxiety

Colonisation, Epidemiology and Literature

Books:

The Post-war Novel and the Death of the Author, Palgrave Macmillan (August 2020)

The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (August 2022)

Articles:

'The Death of the Reader and the Rise of the Female Author in Mohebali's "The Female Vampire"', Discourse: An Iranian Quarterly (Winter 2024)

'The Literary Critic and Creative Writer as Antagonists: Golding's The Paper Men', Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory (31 August, 2023) doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.25.3.0338

'Fiction as Therapy: Agency and Authorship in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable', Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, Warwick University (October 2021) exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/article/view/428

'The Traumatised Shaman: The Woman Writer in the Age of Globalised Trauma', Alluvium, The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS), (special issue, June 2019) alluvium.bacls.org/2019/07/01/the-traumatised-shaman-the-woman-writer-in-the-age-of-globalised-trauma/

'The Author Returns', Alluvium, The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS), (April 2019) alluvium.bacls.org/2019/04/30/the-author-returns-the-author-as-a-politically-committed-social-reformist/

'Animal Imagery in Jose Saramago's Blindness', AIJCR (January 2012)

'The Problematisation of the Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton in Light of Postmodern Theories', IJHSS (August 2011)

Book Reviews:

The Late Style of Borges, Beckett and Coetzee as Postmodernist Cynics, Journal of Modern Literature (Summer 2019) www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.42.4.14

Stories that Voices Need to Tell: A Review of 'It’s All in My Head!', Durham University, (January 2019) hearingthevoice.org/2019/01/08/stories-that-voices-need-to-tell-a-review-of-its-all-in-my-head/

Women's Suffrage has not Started Yet, Durham Book Festival, READ, (October 2018) readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/2018/10/12/womens-suffrage-has-not-started-yet-review-of-radical-women-at-durham-book-festival/