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Hanan Jasim Khammas is a Visiting Doctoral Scholar at the Center for Comparative Literature (CCL) from June to October 2021. She is a PhD candidate in literary theory and comparative literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Adjunct Lecturer of Arabic and contemporary Arabic literature in the Arabophone Master in Contemporary Arabic Studies program at UAB, where she teaches modules on Contemporary Arabic Literature and Contemporary Arab Thought. Starting September 2021, she became academic coordinator of the Master’s degree.
Her research interests focus on the representation of the body in contemporary Iraqi fiction, particularly how corporeality intersects with cultural semiotics and the discourse of the war on terror. She is a member of the research projects 'Gender(s), Language(s) in Contemporary Arabness' and 'Literary Cartographies of the Mediterranean,' and serves as Junior Editor at Revista Banipal. Her PhD thesis, 'The Body Sign: Corporeality in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction,' examines the grotesque body as an aesthetic development in post-2003 Iraqi literature through works by authors like Āliah Mamdūḥ, Sinān Antūn, Ahmad Saʿdāwī, and Ḥasan Blāsim.
She has organized seminar series related to Iraqi literature and corporeality, including 'Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11' and 'Aftermath Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction.' Future events under her involvement include the 'Body-thoughts' postcolonial dance series and a conference on Expressionism and Colonialism.
