Azadeh Safaeian, PhD
Assistant Professor
Disability and Human Development
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact
Building & Room:
DHSP, Room 211A
Address:
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60612
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About
Azadeh Safaeian is a scholar of comparative literature whose research explores the relation between representations of psychosomatic pain and multilingualism in (post)colonial disability studies, critical trauma studies, medical humanities, care studies, postcolonial environmental humanities, and modern literatures and cinemas from the Middle East and North Africa. Her current book project attends to the discursive and non-discursive representations of psychosomatic traumas in the literatures and cinemas of minority groups in the context of the Middle East. Focusing on literary and filmic texts, this work offers new lexicons for addressing the psychosomatic traumas of those who have already been marked by colonial violence before encountering the traumas of the postcolonial wars. In addition, this project contributes to a new understanding of the relation between the disabled body and film as a medium that contests the idea of the nation-state in the studies of “third-world cinemas.” This study also relates linguistics to critical trauma and disability studies by highlighting the role of multilingualism and code-switching in the representations of psychosomatic traumas by ethnic minorities.
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University, December 2022
M.A. Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University, 2018
B.A. English Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University, Iran, 2014
B.S. General Biology, Azad University, Iran, 2004