Farah Nada

I am a PhD candidate in English at the University of Exeter, focusing on space, movement, and processes of exit and departure in the works of Elizabeth Bowen. My thesis is co-supervised by Professor Laura Salisbury and Dr. Beci Carver.

I hold a BA in English Literature and Mass Communication (with a concentration in Journalism) from the American University of Sharjah (AUS), graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2014. In 2016, I completed an MA in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literary Studies (with Distinction) from Durham University. My dissertation, supervised by Dr. Simon Grimble, explored mourning and the figure of "the gentleman" in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier through the lens of Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok’s theories of cryptonymy.

My latest open-access publication, "'We're going north': Motion and Destination in Elizabeth Bowen's To the North", has recently been published in Etudes Britannique Contemporaines (2024).

In 2021, I collaborated with Arka Basu (University of Auckland) on a paper examining aural incursions in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and Iris Murdoch's The Red and the Green, which was published in English Studies (2022).

Before starting my PhD at Exeter, I was a visiting researcher at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), during which I worked with Susan Smith and the Speak Trauma Foundation on historical trauma and perceived cultural losses among United Arab Emirates (UAE) migrant youths. Funded by a faculty research grant, the study followed students from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Iraq, and Tunisia. The resulting paper was published in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (2018).

I am secretary of the Elizabeth Bowen Society.

As an undergraduate, I was a fellow of the American University of Sharjah's Department of English. In this role, I co-founded the department's first online academic journal, Asrar: Dialogues from the Diaspora, and co-edited the first two issues.

I am a three-time recipient of the American University of Sharjah's Chancellor's Award and was granted the Department of Mass Communication's Merit Award for Academic Excellence upon graduating in Fall 2014.

In addition to my ongoing PhD work, I am a trained writing peer-tutor and a freelance copyeditor specializing in academic writing.

I speak English, Arabic, and French.

You can find me on:

X (formerly Twitter): @farahanada

BlueSky: @farahanada.bsky.social

I have presented papers at the following conferences:

• Bristol Arts PGR: Frontiers and Liminal Spaces (University of Bristol, July 2024)
• BAMS 2024: Ephemeral Modernisms (University of Leeds, June 2024)
• Elizabeth Bowen Society Conference: Locating Elizabeth Bowen (University of Bedfordshire, May 2024)
• SEAC 2023: Cardinal Points and Regions in Contemporary British Literature and Arts (Université de Lille, October 2023)
• Bodies and Boundaries in Irish and American Literature (Dublin City University, September 2023)
• ACIS 2022: Pasts, Presents, and Futures (University of Georgia (Online), April 2022)
• Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological Worlds (University of York (Online), May 2021)
• New Work in Modernist Studies (December 2020 (Online); December 2021 (Online); Loughborough University, December 2022)
• Elizabeth Bowen Symposium (Birkbeck, February 2020)
• MSA 2019: Upheaval and Reconstruction (Toronto, October 2019)
• Modernism in the Home (University of Birmingham, July 2019)