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Dr. Keyvan Allahyari is a Junior Professor for Anglophone Literatures in a Global Environment at Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2024. He earned his PhD in English at the University of Melbourne (2019), and has held international research fellowships including a Marie Curie European Fellowship (University of Oslo), and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships (University of Tübingen and University of Potsdam). He has also served as a Visiting Scholar at James Cook University (2025), a Fryer Library Fellow (University of Queensland, 2022), and an Emerging Critic Fellow at the Sydney Review of Books (2020).
- Research Interests: Critical Border Studies, New Materialisms, Future Studies, Oceanic Humanities, Cultural Sociology
- Key Themes: Intersections of borders with ecological degradation and AI; material ecologies in refugee narratives; global Anglophone literatures beyond Anglophone canons
Recent Publications include monographs on Peter Carey and Abdulrazak Gurnah, alongside peer-reviewed articles in Research in African Literatures, ARIEL, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. His teaching focuses on global Anglophone literatures from Asia-Pacific, Caribbean, and African contexts, with seminars like Shakespeare: The Bard at the Border and Pacific Literatures in Context.
Collaborative Projects include co-authored works on migration, proximities, and the global refugee with scholars like Bani Gill and AbdouMaliq Simone. His longform essays and reviews appear in platforms such as the Sydney Review of Books and The Conversation, addressing topics from Middle Eastern literature to refugee authorship ethics.
