Maral Aguilera-Moradipour is an assistant professor in Asian refugee literatures and cultures. After completing her PhD at the University of Western Ontario in English Literature and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Toronto Scarborough, in Media Studies, she joined Simon Fraser University in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and the Global Asia Program. She has published in literary and academic journals such as English Studies in Canada (ESC) and Postcolonial Text and is a member of the advisory board of the interdisciplinary Critical Refugee and Migration Studies network of Canada.