Sonia Lamrani

• BA in Literature and Foreign Languages (Algeria)
• MA in Anglophone Literature (Algeria)

I obtained my BA in Literature and Foreign Languages at the Faculty of Sciences in Boumerdes in Algeria, then a MA in Anglophone literature at the same university.

Teaching fellow of Modern Standard Arabic for Researchers, University of Birmingham.

My research examines the phenomenon of Self-Orientalism in Algerian postcolonial literature in Arabic and French. I am interested in the influence of the colonial and the orientalist legacy in Maghrebian and more precisely Algerian postcolonial literature.

• Europe’s Environments: Climates of Change and Sustainability in Cross-disciplinary Perspectives, Conference organising member, University of Birmingham, 2018
• Self-Othering representations in Algerian Francophone Postcolonial Literature, presentation (Algerian Literature Study Day, University of Lancaster, 2019).
• Voices of Change: Presents, Pasts, and Futures of Activism and Protest in Europe, Conference co-chair and organising member, University of Birmingham, 2020.
• Aestheticisation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935), presentation (Showcasing Empire conference, Aix Marseille Université, 2020)
• Communities in Europe between Continuity and Transition, Organising member, University of Birmingham, 2021.
• Book discussion with Dr Emile Chabal and Dr Simon Jackson (GCfE’s Book Conversations, 2020)