Doctoral research at Bahir Dar University on mourning, melancholia and ambivalence in contemporary Amharic fiction.
This doctoral project (PhD in Literature, Bahir Dar University, 2021–2024) brought Freudian and post-Freudian meta-psychology to contemporary Amharic novels, focusing on how characters and communities experience loss.
The research has produced peer-reviewed articles on mourning (European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation), melancholy in Yäqənat Zār (Journal of Language and Cultural Education) and ambivalence (PLOS ONE), together with papers at international conferences in India, Turkey and Ethiopia.
A Nature Cultural Fellowship project exploring how stories passed between generations in Gojjam carry ecological knowledge, and how that knowledge…
Nature Cultural Fellowship 2025
