Sarah Ali, Homerton
Course: English
Supervisor: Prof Priya Gopal
Dissertation Title: "They all looked such good meat": Anthropophagic Imagery and Metaphorical Representations of Cannibalism in Late 19th and Mid 20th Century English Fiction
Biographical Information
I studied English Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) and graduated in 2013. After working as a teaching assistant at IUG for a year, I did my master's degree in English Literary Studies at Durham University, UK (2014-2015). I went back to Palestine after my MA and taught at IUG for four years. Modules I was teaching include Literary Criticism, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modern Drama, and Comparative Literature. I am currently doing my PhD on anthropophagic metaphors/imagery in early twentieth century English fiction.
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).
