Niyosha Keyzad is a PhD candidate at the Department of English and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her dissertation, Diasporic Pilgrimage: Iranian Women’s Return Narratives, 1999-2020, examines post-Revolution diasporic Iranian women’s return narratives through the paradigm of pilgrimage. Niyosha’s research focuses on diasporic Iranian life writing, literatures of exile and displacement, and theories of gender, space, and identity.