Azadeh Feridoun Pour
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts
July 2016 to Present: PhD Candidate in American Literature, University of Adelaide
September 2009: M.A in English Language and Literature, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
July 2005: B.A. in English Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
My study examines some American white women novelists of the 1950s/early 60s in a genre (“realist” novel) less attended to at an important crossroad of literary/cultural experimentations of a fading modernism and an emerging postmodernism. It intends to examine these women novelists’ “realist” novels as an integral part of a much wider cultural, political, social and economic context by re-contextualizing these works not as mere aesthetic entities but as politicizing narratives. My study will ultimately show that these novels were in fact a non-violent cultural activism in dialogue with other counter-hegemonic cultural practices of the time, aimed at undermining power relations that suppressed or marginalized rival stories/discourses to the hegemonic patriarchal grand narratives, whether sociopolitical or literary-critical. Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt (Carol) (1952), Pamela Moore’s Chocolates for Breakfast (1956), Joyce Johnson’s Come and Join the Dance (1962) and Maureen Howard’s Bridgeport Bus (1965) will be discussed as case studies. Content, language and structure of these novels will be analysed through close reading to reveal not only their literary qualities but also their strategies of contestation in their challenges to re-order their society/culture on the crest of Second-wave Feminism.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2009 - 2011 Research Assistant, Assistant to Professor Emeritus Behzad Ghaderi Sohi doing research on Ludvig Holberg’s comedies; Co-translating Holberg’s Erasmus Montanus, Jeppe of the Hill and The Political Tink University of Tehran, Tehran -
Research Interests
Art History Art Theory and Criticism Biography British History Cinema Studies Classical Greek History Comparative Literature Studies Creative Arts Creative Writing Cultural Studies Culture, Gender, Sexuality Dance Diasporas Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies European History European Literature Fine Arts Gender Studies Gender, Sexuality and Education General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Literary Theory Literatures in English Migrant Cultural Studies North American History North American Literature
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Journals
Year Citation 2013 Feridoun Pour, A. (2013). “A Word with Many Edges: Sylvia Plath’s Nomenclature for the Collection Ariel”. Plath Profiles, 6. 2012 Feridoun Pour, A. (2012). “To Be Playing to the Gallery of Oneself Alone: The Motif of Enclosure after WW II in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Some Selected Poems”. Plath Profiles, 5. -
Book Chapters
Year Citation 2013 Barseghiyan, A. (2013). Sunrise. In . -. - (Ed.), Monday. -
Original Creative Works
Year Citation 2014 Publication status: Published online
NTRO sub category: 3 Written work
Title: The Blue Cafe
Authors: Feridoun Pour A
Place of publication: Plath Profiles
Publication date: 1 October 2014
Extent: 30-31
ERA Research Statement - 2000 character limit: Poem
Record created at source: 2 April 20182013 Publication status: Published online
NTRO sub category: 3 Written work
Title: Perdita
Authors: Feridoun Pour A
Place of publication: Plath Profiles
Publication date: 1 July 2013
Extent: 417-426
ERA Research Statement - 2000 character limit: Poem
Record created at source: 2 April 20182012 Publication status: Published online
NTRO sub category: 3 Written work
Title: “‘Empty Benches of Memory’: Sylvia Plath, A Sketch”
Authors: Feridoun Pour A
Place of publication: Plath Profiles
Publication date: 1 October 2012
Extent: 40-47
ERA Research Statement - 2000 character limit: Memoir
Record created at source: 2 April 20182011 Publication status: Published online
NTRO sub category: 3 Written work
Title: “Theatres of the Mind”
Alternative title: None
Authors: Feridoun Pour A
Place of publication: Plath Profiles
Publication date: 1 July 2011
Journal: Plath Profiles
ISSN: 2155-8175
Volume: 4
Extent: 328-30
Language: English
ERA Research Statement - 2000 character limit: Poem
Record created at source: 2 April 2018
- 20 October 2017: Global Learning Travel Grant for Overseas Research, University of Adelaide
- 13 October 2017: DR Stranks Postgraduate Travelling Fellowship 2017, University of Adelaide
- 20 September 2017: Harold J Rodda Scholarship & Cowan Bursaries 2017, University of Adelaide, Kathleen Lumley College (KLC)
- May 2016: The Selection Committee of the GEMMA Consortium: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for a European Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA) at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and Hull University (England)
- April 2016: Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand): Victoria Doctoral Scholarship for a PhD in American Literature at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies
- March 2016: University of Adelaide: ASI (Adelaide International Scholarship) at Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities, Department of English and Creative Writing
- February 2016: Copenhagen University: The Danish Governmental Scholarship for an MA in Advanced Migration Studies at the Faculty of Humanities / Saxo Institute
2006 to 2009: ILI (Iran Language Institute); Tehran & Urmia Branches, Iran: Teaching General English to Adults
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