Saide Harb-Ranero

Saide Harb-Ranero earned both a bachelor’s degree, Magna Cum Laude, and a master’s degree from Bridgewater State University in the United States of America. For her master’s thesis, she examined postcolonial Gothic in Irish fiction, analyzing the effects of colonialism through the lens of intergenerational trauma. She received the Distinguished Graduate Thesis Award in 2022 for her thesis, "Anne Enright's Reply to James Joyce: A Nation's Tale Told Through The Gathering," under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Scheible.

She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of the Balearic Islands, working under the supervision of Dr. Charlie Jorge Fernández, focusing on the Irish postcolonial Gothic in Anne Enright’s The Gathering and Tana French’s The Likeness. Her project analyzes the Gothic and postcolonial binaries present in the Irish narrative. Just as Enright explored Veronica's hidden memories to confront her haunting past and find a better future, French needs to help Cassie uncover Lexi’s suppressed memories, enabling her to move forward and embrace a life in which hope can grow. The project explores how distorted memories mirror the nation’s collective suppression of memory and how that suppression affects the domestic interior. This binary offers the nation a clear path to healthier statehood: uncovering and confronting a postcolonial past that must be addressed and finding a way to move beyond the damaging effects of postcolonial trauma. All of this unfolds within a framework that haunts these characters' journeys—the Gothic.