Shadi Rezaei is a first year PhD student in French Studies at UBC. She received her BA and MA degree in French Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran in 2019 and 2022, respectively. Her MA thesis topic was “Biography and autobiography in Small Lives and The Eleven: A sociological approach to Pierre Michon’s writing” in which she analyzed the biographical, autobiographical, and auto-fictional aspects of the two mentioned books using ideas and methodologies of sociologists such as Jérôme Meizoz, Pierre Bourdieu, and Alain Viala. She speaks Persian, French, English and a little Spanish, and she has over six years of experience in teaching French language in different levels.

Interests

• Biography and autobiography
• Autofiction
• Quest for identity
• Sociological criticism
• Contemporary French literature

MA thesis: Biographie et autobiographie dans Vies minuscules et Les Onze: pour une approch sociologique de l’écriture michonienne

Graduate supervisor: Dr. Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire

“Impending Catastrophes Through the Ages: Literature and the arts in the Context of doom” (FHIS 10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference, October 2023)