Aman Erfan
- Email: xbdx6038@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Fungal imaginaries and the post/human in twenty-first century fiction
- Supervisors: Professor Amelia DeFalco, Dr Emma Trott, Professor David Higgins
Profile
I completed my BA(Hons) in English Literature and MPhil in English from Government College University, Lahore, and joined the School of English at Leeds as a PhD student in 2024. My prior research has focused on posthuman materiality in contemporary East-Asian women’s writing, representations of nonhuman narratives and human-animal relations in contemporary speculative fiction, as well as the narrative and textual practice of the 19th-century writer Lafcadio Hearn.
My doctoral research focuses on representations of fungi and mycelia in recent fiction amidst the so-called fungal turn in arts and culture, focusing particularly on 21st-century fiction by women and queer writers. As the first extensive account of queer and feminist fungal imaginaries in 21st-century fiction, it proposes a new biotic framework to approach posthuman embodiment, relations, and ecology in contemporary fiction and thought.
Research interests
My current research interests include:
- Depictions of fungi and mycelia
- Posthuman materiality and embodiment
- Nonhuman studies
- The weird
- 21st-century fiction and writing
Qualifications
- BA(Hons) English Literature
- MPhil English
Research groups and institutes
- Environmental Humanities Research Group
- Medical Humanities Research Group
- Critical Life Research Group