Fatemeh Gholami
My name is Fatemeh Gholami, a PhD Student at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. I specialize at English Studies with two masters’ Degrees. My field of study at PUK is Literary Studies and I follow my line of research on Place studies, Spatiality Literary Studies, Ecospace and Bioregions depicted in literary works. As for the context of my work, I am focused on Migration/Diaspora Literature of the 21st century including novels, memoirs and visual productions. Observing how migrant authors represent places of movement either in a fictional manner or as real cartographic places can reveal if these authors are concerned with promoting certain ecological literacy through their texts or not. Inspired by the academic sphere and the interdisciplinarity involved at PUK, my dissertation aims at intersecting the Spatial Turn and Ecological Turn in the Humanities through highlighting the significance of places in the world today. My conference presentations have invariably been about ecocritical readings of texts and how literature and culture in general can play a key role in changing people’s perspectives toward building more environmentally-aware societies. Literature does matter after all.