Somayyeh Ghaffari
Somayyeh Ghaffari is a PhD student in English Literature at the School of English and Media Studies, Massey University. She has been awarded a Massey University Doctoral Scholarship. Her research concentrates on “Reconsidering narratives of Muslim immigrant radicalisation: The representation of intergenerational experience in contemporary Muslim immigrant fiction”.
Her areas of interest are: Contemporary Fiction, Hybridity, Muslim Immigrant Fiction, 9/11 Fiction and Radicalisation Narrative. Somayyeh holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from Tabriz Azad University, Iran. Prior to moving to New Zealand, she taught: General English, Short Story, Selected Prose, Literary Schools, and Introduction to Literature at Urmia University and Urmia Azad University, Iran.
Publications
Worthington, K., & Ghaffari, S. (June 2020). Muslim Author Response to 9/11 Fiction Waikato Islamic Studies Review, 6(1), 21-32. https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/Waikato-Islamic-Studies-Review-Vol-6-No-1.pdf
Ghaffari, S. (2016). Black Feminism vs. White Feminism: Search for a Self-identity in: Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar": Lambert Academic Publishing.