Biography

Ali Ghaderi is a PhD student in English, exploring the connections between Victorian Visual Culture and Literature and the afterlives of Arthuriana and fantasy adaptations. His research interests include Arthurian Legends, works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, fantasy adaptations, feminism, continental and analytical philosophy, contemporary literature, and popular culture. His previous graduate research concerns contemporary continental philosophy and Tolkien’s high fantasy. He taught undergraduate courses at Razi University’s English Department as an adjunct professor. His current research concerns the images of alterity in artworks inspired by Arthuriana during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He co-hosted a session on women in Tolkien’s world with Ted Nasmith and has been a presenter/panelist at Oxonmoot conferences. This winter, he will be a speaker at the Tolkien Seminar, presenting his research on Stam’s dialogics and adaptations of Tolkien’s works. In addition, he has held and participated in free online discussion sessions and workshops on various subjects, including fantasy adaptation, modernism, T. S. Eliot’s poetry, and Ingmar Bergman’s cinema, and his works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as Women’s Studies on Taylor and Francis Online and Atlantis on JSTOR.