Sahar Ahmadi

PhD Researcher, English & Comparative Literary Studies

Supervisor: Dr Michael Niblett

Funding: Doctoral College access scholarship - Sanctuary (Warwick)

Email: Sahar.Ahmadi@warwick.ac.uk

Thesis Title:

Persian and Caribbean Literary Dialogues: Intersecting World-Ecology, Proletarian Narratives, and Cultural Dynamics in English and Comparative Literary Studies

Project Summary
My research develops a South–South comparative framework that brings Afghan and Caribbean literatures into dialogue. Focusing on post-2001 Afghan narratives and contemporary Caribbean fiction, I examine how both regions represent ecological violence, extraction, proletarianisation, and cultural resistance under global capitalism. Drawing on world-ecology, slow violence, and combined and uneven development, the project analyses how literary form registers histories of empire and imagines alternative futures.

Research Interests
World-ecology; Caribbean literature; Afghan literature; postcolonial theory; Global South studies; cultural ecology; gender and class in literature; extractivism; migration and diaspora narratives.

Memberships

• International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Member (2025–Present)