I am an instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s English department specializing in global women’s travel narratives from the early modern period to the nineteenth century.
Research Focus
My research explores how early modern women’s stories of travel, both fictional and nonfictional, shaped cultural perceptions and expanded our understanding of global interconnectedness within historical contexts.
conferences
Medieval and early modern orients
Dec 2025, forthcoming
Presenting on eighteenth-century travel writer, William Daniel, and his account of travels through North Africa, the Levant, and South Asia.
american society for eighteenth-century studies
April 2022
Presented a comparative paper focused on eighteenth-century travel writer, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Romantic novelist Phebe Gibbes.
east coast american society for eighteenth-century studies
Oct 2025
Shared research on eighteenth-century travel writer, Elizabeth Marsh, and her two main travel texts: a captivity narrative set in the Barbary coast, and her unpublished travel diary in India.
modern languages association
Jan 2020
Discussing the figure of the eunuch in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature set in colonial India.
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Unita Ahdifard 