A collection of personal essays bridging the connection between personal and collective disaster: The Intimate Disaster.
Generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council Literary Arts Grant, 2024.
PhD dissertation exploring how writers write about disaster. Exploring works of 21st century memoir and fiction, theorizing the intimacies of disaster and disaster writing.
Supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grant.
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Khan, Shoilee, “The Onset(tling) of Disaster: The Intimate Disaster in the Opening Pages of Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave and Julia Phillip’s Disappearing Earth.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 8 – 11, 2021, Online.
Khan, Shoilee, “Metaphor as Method: How To Tell A Shattered Story – The Metaphorical Conceptualization of World Literature, Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the Representation of the Extreme.” IWL – Institute for World Literature 2019, 1-25 July 2019, Harvard University. Colloquia Presentation.
Khan, Shoilee. “Dismantled Domestics, Loneliness, and Creative Coping in Rabindranath Maharaj’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy.” Confluences 2, Mawenzi Press, 2017.
Khan, Shoilee. “The Art of Not Writing: Why Writers Fail to Write.” The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing and Creative Writing Teaching, Great Writing: Creative Writing Conference, 29 June 2013, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, UK. Presenter.
A current project supported by the Ontario Arts Council’s Literary Creation grant.
