Detailseite Elahi

I completed my bachelors in English and American Studies, with Sociology as a minor, in 2019, and my MA in “Comparative Studies in English and American Language, Literature and Culture” in 2022 from HHU. My MA thesis focused on transformative space and female agency. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD at HHU, with the working title “‘Impossible Possibility’: The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Mundane”.

My doctoral project deals with the mundane juxtaposed to the sublime and the beautiful, within the confines of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and Vital Materialism. It poses the mundane as sublime and finds avenues of beauty within it, with representations of the mundane coming to the fore and delivering themselves to all involved. As the everyday is something we all deal with on a daily basis (which is, of course, the understatement of the century), the analyses of my fictional texts are set against our own reality.

My seminar at HHU is called “Literature and the Everyday”, and the aim is to analyze various depictions of the everyday in literature, to eventually (hopefully) come up with a viable definition of our own everyday, individually, as well as collectively in the classroom. I also teach English as an adjunct lecturer at other universities.

“The Abject in T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’.” NETSOL, New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences 6.1 (2021): 24-33. DOI: doi.org/10.24819/netsol2021.02.

“Reading the Room: Seeing and Atmosphere in ‘Wuthering Heights’.” postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies 6.2 (2021): 181-194. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5129484.