Haleh Agar

An interdisciplinary approach

My favourite thing about Goldsmiths has been how there are lots of opportunities for interdisciplinary studies. 

I love that I can share my work and research with other students and lecturers, both within the Department of English and Creative Writing and beyond. And I can learn about exciting work that's going on in other departments through events run by the various learning centres, like for example, through the Centre for Feminist Reseach.

Advice for future students

Get involved!

If there is something you've been curious about, take the leap and sign up- whether that's to a club, or just popping into different events.

Award-winning work

My practice-led PhD explores colonialism’s legacy in the Middle East. The creative part of my thesis is a re-imagining of ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, and is set in the context of the 1953 coup in Iran whereby the CIA and MI6 worked together to overthrow the democratic government in order to keep control of Iranian oil.

 ‘Coo’, my gothic satire novel, aims to prevent the erasure of context as understanding the Middle East today requires looking back to the western-led coup in 1953. The novel-in-progress has received the 2024 Literature Matters award from the Royal Society of Literature.