Mahtab Dadkhah, M.A.

Thema: "Power of Media in Forming Cultural Identities of Migrants from India and Nigeria to Germany: A Phenomenological Study"

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    Communication and Media Studies/English Language and Literature, University of Erfurt, Germany (2019-Present)
  • Master of Arts (M.A.)
    English Language and Literature, University of Semnan, Iran (2016-2018)
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
    English Language and Literature, University of Isfahan, Iran (2013-2016)
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
    English Language and Literature, Alameh Tabatabai’e University, Tehran, Iran (2012-2013)

Publications

  1. Shabanirad, E. & Dadkhah, M. (2020). ‘Utopian Nightmares: Disciplinary Power and Panoptic Society in George Orwell’s 1984 and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island’, in Keramatfar, H. & Beyad, M. (ed.) Cinema and Its Representations: Poetics and Politics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 79-95.
  2. Dadkhah, M. & Royanian, Sh. (2018). A Hero and An Anti-Hero. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.
  3. Shabanirad, E. & Dadkhah, M. (2017). A Foucauldian Study of Space and Power in Two Novels by Nadine Gordimer. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 17(4). 

Conference Presentations

  • Dadkhah, M. (2016).  “Utopian Nightmares: A Foucauldian Study of George Orwell’s 1984 and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island”. Poster, International Conference on Literature and Cinema, Tehran University, Iran.
  • Dadkhah, M. and Shabanirad, E. (2016). “Here without Me: Family Dynamics and Society in the Glass Menagerie and its Film Adaptation: A Freudo-Marxist Reading”. Poster, National Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and Cinema, Alzahra University, Iran.
  • Dadkhah, M. (2016). “Chronotope in Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village”. Presentation, The First Conference on Advances and Challenges in Science, Engineering and Technology, Iran. 
  • Dadkhah, M. (2016). “Traces of Romanticism in Britain, America, and Iran: Comparing William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Sohrab Sepehri”. Presentation, The First Conference on Advances and Challenges in Science, Engineering and Technology, Iran.

Thesis Summary

Migration from the Commonwealth to Germany, as opposed to the more common topic of migration from the Commonwealth to the UK, is a research gap, despite the internationalization of the English language and the globalization of Anglophone culture with a direct impact on Germany. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the impacts of social media on cultural identity formation of immigrants from the Commonwealth to Germany with Anglophone culture and English language as influential factors.

Research Interests

  • Literary, Media, and Cultural Theory
  • Postcolonial Media Culture
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Migration and Identity 

Supervisors

Professor Dr. Kai Merten
Professor Dr. Kai Hafez (Co-Supervision)