Rasha Chatta

Key information

Qualifications
BA (Sorbonne, Paris), MA (SOAS, University of London)
Thesis title
Marginality and Individuation: A Theoretical Approach to Abla Farhoud and Arab Migrant Literature
Internal Supervisors
Professor Francesca Orsini

Biography

After two years in preparatory classes to the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Khâgne moderne- humanities) and a BA in History from the Sorbonne in Paris, I completed an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS. I then worked as the Community Outreach director at the Resettlement Legal Aid Project for refugees in Egypt before coming back to SOAS to start on my PhD project.

I was a Graduate Teaching Assistant (2011-14) and a Teaching Fellow (2014-15) in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East. In 2014, I lectured on Arab Cinemas in the Centre for Media and Film Studies.

I am currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East.

Research interests

Literary theory, comparative literature, migrant literature, world literature, francophone literatures, modern and contemporary Arabic literature, Arab-Québécois literature, diaspora literature, transnational studies, marginality and individuation in literary discourse, postcolonial studies.


 

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