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Zhila Gholami earned her PhD in Literary Studies from Griffith University. Her doctoral thesis explored the negotiations of traumatic memory in English-language Kurdish writing as a way of understanding how the Kurdish people struggle for recognition and self-determination in and through diasporic cultural production.
She was awarded the 2024 Fryer Library Fellowship and the 2025 John Oxley Library Fellowship, and is presenting on her research at the John Oxley library this Saturday at the State Library of Queensland.
Heather caught up with Zhila last week. The timing of this interview is particularly signficant given the attacks across the Middle East at the moment, noting that Zhila's graduation visa is about to expire and she will soon need to leave Australia, despite it being unsafe for her to return to Iran.