Maral Attar-Zadeh
I am a PhD student in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. My project, titled 'Feeding Bodies, Mother Tongues: Maternal Nourishment and the Poetics of Social Change 1630-1730', is broadly about the mouth: exploring the relationship between discourses of dearth and charity ("feeding the hungry") and literary education and production in the vernacular ("the mother tongue") in the early modern English imaginary. It was awarded an honorary Cambridge Trust Doctoral Scholarship.
I studied Comparative Literature, German, and History at Victoria College, University of Toronto (Hons., High Distinction) before coming to Cambridge for an MPhil in Criticism and Culture (Distinction). My master's dissertation focussed on pedagogy and/as literary criticism in the context of the so-called method debates, and was funded by a Trinity College Dunlevie King's Hall Studentship. My other research interests include religion and secularity, ecocriticism, the apocalypse, and translation.
