Women and Gender Studies Lecture

Kurdish Women in Literature, Translation, and Gender Studies

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EDT
Online Location

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Featuring:

Holly Mason Badra (Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies, George Mason 

Holly Mason Badra is the associate director of Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. She is the curatorial editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora (The University of Arkansas Press, 2025). 

Dr. Choman Hardi (Professor of English and Gender Studies, American University of Iraq-Sulaimani)
Dr. Choman Hardi is an associate professor of English and Gender Studies at American University of Iraq (Sulaimani). She founded AUIS's Center for Gender and Development Studies in 2015 and established the first interdisciplinary gender studies minor in Iraq. Her book Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq (Routledge, 2011) was named a UK Core Title by the Yankee Book Peddler. Her poetry collections include Life For Us (2004), Considering The Women (2015), and a translation of Sherko Bekas’s Butterfly Valley (Arc Publishing, 2018), which won a PEN Translates Award. Her most recent publication is a novel, Whispering Walls, published by Afsana Press (2023).

Dr. Farangis Ghaderi (Professor in Gender and Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter)

Dr. Farangis Ghaderi is a professor in Gender and Kurdish Studies at the University of Exeter, Principal Investigator of the Kurdish Digital Archives project, and Director of the Centre for Kurdish Studies. Her research and teaching experience builds on her fields of specialisation, which are Kurdish cultural production, gender studies, and translation studies. She is the associate editor of the Kurdish Studies Journal and co-editor of Derwaze, a Kurdish peer-reviewed journal in social sciences and humanities. She is a co-editor of Women's Voices from Kurdistan (Transnational Press London, 2021). 

Hero Kurda (Poet, essayist, and teacher in Southern Kurdistan) 

Hero Kurda is a feminist poet and essayist born in South Kurdistan. Her publications include I Burn in the Season of Flight (2008) and I Write Yusif (2013). In 2017 she received her master’s degree in contemporary literature from Charmo University. She lives in Kirkuk where she works as a teacher. 

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