Farah Ghaderi

Farah Ghaderi
Urmia University · English Language and Literature

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Farah Ghaderi is associate professor of English Literature at Urmia University, Iran. Her research interests include exoticism in travel writing, English and Persian poetry, translation, ecofeminism and postcolonial studies. Much of her recent research has focused on the impact of gender in intercultural encounters in travel writing. She has been published in all these areas.

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Publications (34)
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White Noise is Don DeLillo’s eighth novel which was published in 1985. The novel has been scrutinized by many scholars from different schools of thought. In this article, we try to read White Noise in light of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of different types of capital and make an effort to take note of representations of each of these types. Neverthel...
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Ali Smith’s There But For The (2011), a polyphonic novel with four separate narrators, was recognised as one of the year’s best books by the Guardian and Publishers Weekly. The author’s ample use of puns in the novel, which leads to plurisignation, encourages one to look for latent and imperceptible motives in her characters. The central event of t...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has directly impacted the way teachers and learners worldwide teach and learn languages, forcing numerous educational activities in technologically-deprived contexts to stop altogether and those in technologically-rich environments to go online on an emergency basis. This volume provides a collection of theoretical and practic...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has directly impacted the way teachers and learners worldwide teach and learn languages, forcing numerous educational activities in technologically-deprived contexts to stop altogether and those in technologically-rich environments to go online on an emergency basis. This volume provides a collection of theoretical and practic...
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English as a Second/Foreign Language (L2) teacher identity has recently attracted researchers worldwide and a number of new concepts have been identified as influential in L2 teachers’ identity formation. The present study examined one of those concepts, namely vision, and such relevant issues as vision trajectories as well as strategies that enhan...
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Second Language Teacher identity (SLTI) has been a burgeoning area of research over the last decade or so within the field of language teacher education in general and second language education (including TESOL) in particular. Given that overall teaching effectiveness and teachers’ classroom practices partially rely on teachers’ understanding of wh...
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In the 1990s, the first wave of trauma theories was raised to extend the boundaries of psychological trauma studies into other fields, including literary theories and literature. Jeannette Walls (1960-), an American author and journalist, writes about her characters’ resistance to life’s adversities in her novels. Despite the existing studies on he...
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Academic publishing, and in particular running a scholarly journal, is a technical enterprise managed by a team of professionals. As one such team member, a journal editor has the specific responsibility of overseeing the submission process from facilitating review through making decisions on manuscripts. The editors of the journal in question here...
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This article fleshes out the various ways Isabella Bird performs the self in her travel account, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), mainly in her engagement with the Kurdish people. Deploying Judith Butler’s theory of performativity of gender, we argue that travel writing is empowering for Bird because it offers her a viable platform to perfo...
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Hilary Mantel is a prominent British writer whose historical novels have magnetized audiences all over the world. Her remarkable work, Wolf Hall (2009), is a historical fiction which has received positive reviews and won the Man Booker Prize. Even though critics have studied Wolf Hall from different perspectives such as legal pragmatism and ethics,...
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Hilary Mantel is a prominent British writer whose historical novels have magnetized audiences all over the world. Her remarkable work, Wolf Hall (2009), is a historical fiction which has received positive reviews and won the Man Booker Prize. Even though critics have studied Wolf Hall from different perspectives such as legal pragmatism and ethics,...
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This article offers an ecoGothic reading of Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’ (1835) and ‘Roger Malvin’s Burial’ (1832). It fleshes out human-nature encounters in the selected short stories to revisit the common response to nature in Hawthorne scholarship as a passive element reflecting characters’ state of mind. We argue that the wilderness in bot...
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Merritt-Hawkes’ much-neglected travel narrative, Persia: Romance and Reality, offers a very interesting account of her journey to Persia in 1935 and of her interactions with Persian women. Unlike her male counterparts, she is allowed entry in to Persian domestic spaces, which has proved productive in her active engagements with and opening up to th...
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The present study explored the development of language teacher immunity among Iranian in-service English as a Foreign/Second Language (EFL) teachers (N=15) working at public high schools. Drawing on semi-structured interview data, the study found that low self-confidence, students' demotivation, low income, limited facilities, lack of enough time t...
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Recent research has identified a direct link between language teachers’ self and motivation, and their relationship with conceptual change and professional development. A better understanding of the exact manner in which language teachers’ perceptions of self interact with their motivation, however, requires further empirical evidence from a variet...
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The impact of the non-native speaker’s (NNS) language proficiency on their personal teaching performance has often been an issue in TESOL teacher education programmes. To explore this issue a study was conducted to investigate the link between language teachers’ language proficiency and their teaching effectiveness. Classes taught by eight NNS teac...
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This paper explores representations of Persia and the Persians in Freya Stark’s The Valley of Assassins (1934) and Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana (1937). Although these two travel accounts have been the subject of a few studies, the focus has been mostly on their architectural and stylistic aspects. Drawing on Orientalism, travel and gender theo...
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Task planning and its effect on task performance have attracted generous attention by researchers in task-based language teaching. Scholars have investigated the link between various forms of planning (pre- and within, as well as different lengths of planning times) on written and oral performance in monologic tasks, analysing the output for syntac...
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Even though Iran has never been formally colonized, a brief glance at its history reveals western powers’ imperialistic tendencies toward and colonialist impositions on it. By providing a brief overview of Iran–West encounters since the nineteenth century, this essay sets the stage for understanding how postcolonialism is relevant to the Iranian co...
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There is an increasing interest in English education in Iran among the younger generation; the ELT industry is flourishing by leaps and bounds in the private sector and attending private English lessons is in vogue. This entry compares public and private EFL education in Iran by drawing on the age at which public and private EFL education starts in...
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Norms in educational assessment are the reference points against which performances of candidates can be compared and their scores interpreted. Different meanings and types of norms, the way norm groups are produced, issues related to sampling and population, and interpreting frameworks for scores (norm‐referenced versus criterion‐referenced) are k...
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The wretched gloomy world Samuel Beckett exposes to view in Endgame, where the characters have learned to live with their variety of afflictions, both mental and physical, draws the attention of many critics to the psychology of the characters and the absurdity of its world. This article aims to analyze Samuel Beckett's Endgame in light of psychoan...
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Abstract This article teases out Ella Sykes’ responses to the differences she encounters in the contact zone in Persia in her much-neglected travel narrative Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (1898). The authors argue that Ella Sykes’ position/self-positioning in relation to difference is shaped by various, and at times opposing, factors, which contr...
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Victorian travelers in colonial contexts encountered differences in landscape, mores and manners, society, politics and culture, among other things, and registered their responses to the places visited in their published travel books for the home audience. Postcolonial critics contend that exoticism, i.e., a Western traveler's response to and descr...
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Isabella Bird Bishop's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan is presented as an objective picture of Persia, purportedly reflecting eye-witness accounts. Setting the narrative in its historical context and employing the concept of exoticism, this paper aims to unearth its subtle imperialist underpinnings. It argues that Bird's portrayal of Persian women...
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Through a textual scrutiny of Mary Sheil’s Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, this paper aims to examine the ways she represents the Persian women in her travel narrative. Nineteenth century, as the high noon of British imperialism, saw the emergence of a huge corpus of colonial travel literature on Persia purported to be eye-witness accounts...
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The closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the height of British imperialism, saw a tremendous increase in the number of British travellers to Persia. The main reason had to do with the emergence of Persia as a political entity in the ‘Great Game’ played between the imperial powers of Russia and Britain to win supremacy in the region (Andree...
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Through a textual scrutiny of Mary Sheil’s Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, this paper aims to examine the ways she represents the Persian women in her travel narrative. Nineteenth century, as the high noon of British imperialism, saw the emergence of a huge corpus of colonial travel literature on Persia purported to be eye-witness accounts...
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Through a close reading of Fanny Parks’ Wanderings of a Pilgrim, this paper seeks to expose the imperialist underpinnings of her travel journal, purportedly presenting an objective picture of India. To achieve this end, the main focus will be on an exploration of the rhetorical strategies and Orientalist tropes deployed by the author to script the...
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The huge corpus of travel literature, penned by the British male and female writers on Persia during the high noon of imperialism, should not be taken simply as an ‘innocent transcription’ of the other world; rather, it has been asserted by postcolonial critics that the mapping out of non-European nations through a matrix of textual production in s...

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