Sarah Ali, Homerton

Biographical Information

I earned my BA in English Literature from the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) in 2013. Following a year as a Teaching Assistant at the same institution, I pursued an MA in English Literary Studies at Durham University (2014–2015).

After completing my master’s degree, I returned to Palestine and served as a faculty member at the Islamic University of Gaza for four years. During this time, I taught a range of undergraduate modules, including Literary Criticism, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modern Drama, and Comparative Literature.

I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2025. My thesis examined anthropophagic metaphors and imagery in early twentieth-century English fiction. I am currently a Postdoctoral Affiliate in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University.
 
 
 

Research Interests

The novel; fin de siécle and early twentieth-century English fiction; critical theory and literary criticism; comparative and Arabic literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Palestinian literature; postcolonial theory and criticism; American confessional poetry; psychoanalytic criticism; metaphors of consumption. 

Authors/critics/philosophers of interest: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, T. E. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, George Orwell, Mulk Raj Anand, Ghassan Kanafani, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Jun-Luc Nancy. 

At Cambridge, I supervised undergraduate students for final-year dissertations, Part IA Paper 1 (Practical Criticism and Critical Practice), Part IB Paper 7A (English Literature and its Contexts 1830-1945), and Part II Paper 13 (Postcolonial and Related Literatures).