Shirin Assa has been engaged with literary study of diasporic identities/Id*escapes in the field of Future, Postcolonial Studies and Intersectonality. Currently holding a Ph.D position in the English and American Literature department at University of Bayreuth, she is also the co-coordinator of Gender, Queer, Intersectionality and Diversity network at UBT. Assa pursues a comparative study on “MENA women in Diaspora; Poetics of Intersectional Resistance versus Geometry of Appropriation.” She is also a member of steering committee for Future Migration Network for Cultural Diversity.
