Nasrin Rahimieh University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3375 Comparative Literature (949) 824-0406 Email: [email protected]
Education
PhD, University of Alberta, 1988 Comparative Literature Dissertation Title: Responses to Orientalism
MA, Dalhousie University, 1983 Major: German Dissertation Title: Goethe and Islamic Poetry: A Study of Goethe's West-Östlicher Divan
BA, Dalhousie University, 1981 Major: French and German Combined Honours
Professional Positions
Director, Humanities Core Course Program, 2019-2022
Chair, Comparative literature, (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2019)
Interim Director, Culture and Theory, (September 15, 2016 - June 30, 2017)
Director, Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and culture, (2006 - 2014)
Women's Studies, UC Irvine (2015-2019)
Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine (2006-2016)
Dean, Faculty of Humanities/Professor, Department of English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University. (2003 - 2006)
Acting Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, McMaster University. (2003 - 2004)
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Religion, Film/Media Studies, University of Alberta. (2000 - 2003)
Associate Dean (Humanities) of Arts, University of Alberta. (1999 - 2002)
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Religion, Film/Media Studies, University of Alberta. (1993 - 2000)
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, University of Alberta. (1992 - 1993)
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, University of Alberta. (1989 -1992)
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, Sessional Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta. (1988 - 1989)
Honorary Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of French, Dalhousie University (1988 - 1989)
Professional Memberships
Society for Iranian Studies. Middle East Studies Association of North America. Modern Language Association Canadian Conference of Deans of Arts, Humanities and Social Science (CCDAHSS). (2003 - 2006) Council of Ontario Deans of Arts and Sciences (CODAS). (2003 - 2006) Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC). (2003 - 2006)
Awards and Honors
Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Alberta. (2000)
RESEARCH
Publications
Book Chapters, Peer-Reviewed
“The Languages of Comparison,” Comparative Literature in Canada: Contemporary Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Publishing in Review, eds. Susan Ingram and Irene Sywensky, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books, 2020: 71-82.
“Four Iterations of Persian Literary Nationalism.” In Constructing Nationalism in Iran: From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic. Ed. Meir Litvak. New York: Routledge, 2017: 40-55.
“Playing Hat Tricks with History.” In Bright Diversities of Day: Essays on Persian Literature and Culture in Honor of M.R. Ghanoonparvar. Ed. Faridoun Farrokh. Costa Mesa, California, Mazda, 2017:101-111.
“Armenians in Iran, or the Limits of Cosmopolitanism.” In Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging. Ed. Lucian Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 201: 419-29
“Flights From History: Gina Barkhordar Nahai and Dalia Sofer's Fiction.” In The Jews of Iran: The History, Religion, and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World. Ed. Houman Sarshar. London: I B Tauris. 2014: 203-219.
With Sharareh Frouzesh “Articulations of Resistance in Modern Persian Literature. In Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema, and Music. New York: Routledge, 2013: 79-97.
“Reflections of the Cold War in Modern Persian Literature.” In Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives. Ed. A. Hammond. New York: Routledge, 2012: 87-99.
“Translating Taghi Modarressi's Writing with an Accent.” In Iranian Languages and Culture: Essays in Honor of Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr. Eds. Behrad Aghaei and M.R. Ghanoonparvar. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2012: 110-125.
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“Capturing the Abject of the Nation in The House is Black.” In Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry. Ed. Dominic Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh. London: I B Tauris, 2010: 125-136.
“Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature.” In A Companion to Comparative literature. Eds. Dominic Thomas and Ali Behdad. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011: 296-311.
“Hedayat’s Translations of Kafka and the Logic of Iranian Modernity.” In Sadeq Hedayat: His Work and His Wondrous World. Ed. Homa Katouzian. London: Routledge: 2008: 124-135.
“Manifestations of Diversity and Alterity in the Persian Literary Idiom.” In Critical Encounters: Essays on Persian Literature and Culture in Honor of Peter J. Chelkowski. Eds. M. Khorrami, and M. M., Ghanoonparvar. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2007: 21-35.
“Marking Gender and Difference in the Myth of the Nation: A Post-Revolutionary Iranian Film.” In The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity. Ed. Richard Tapper. London: I. B. Tauris: 2002: 238-253. (revised reprint of article published in Thamyris).
“Refocusing Alloula's Gaze: A Feminist Reading of The Colonial Harem.” In Atlantic Cross- Currents: Transatlantiques. Eds. S.Z. Andrade, E. Julien, and M. Songolo. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2001: 91-100.
“Deterritorialization or Internationalization: Three Writers from the Middle East.” In Language and Literature Today: Proceedings of the XIXth Triennial Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures Vol. II. Ed. N. Faria. Universidade de Brasillia,1996: 521-526.
“Iranian-American Literature.” In New Immigrant Literatures of the United States: A Sourcebook Ed. A. S. Knippling. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996: 109-124.
“Mediators of Myth: The Role of Women in The Submarinians” (in Persian). In Proceedings of the 1992 Iranian Women's Studies Foundation Conference. Ed. H. Sarshar. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, 1993: 87-102.
“Beneath the Veil: The Revolution in Iranian Women's Writing.” In Literature and the Body. Ed. A. Purdy. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature, 7) Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992: 95-115.
“Naïm Kattan, le discours arabe, and Empty Words.” In Proceedings of the 4th Conference organized by the Research Institute for Comparative Literature as part of the project The History of the Literary Institution in Canada: Literatures of Lesser Diffusion. Ed. J. Pivato. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, 1990: 183-90.
“Grimus: Salman Rushdie's First Experiment with Postmodernist Narrative.” In Literature and Commitment. Ed. G. N. Sharma. Toronto: TSAR, 1988: 116-124.
“The Juxtaposition of Orient and Occident in Modern Eastern Fiction.” In Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Vol. 2,). Ed. R. Bauer. Munich: Iudicum, 1988: 19-24.
Book Sections
“Recovery.” In Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Disapora). Ed. Persis Karim. University of Arkansas Press, 2006: 117-128. (creative non-fiction).
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“Pregnant with Sorrow.” In A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian- Americans. Eds. Persis Karim and Mehdi Khorrami. George Braziller, 1999: 231-38. (creative non-fiction).
“How Can One Be Persian in the Canadian Academy?” Eds. J. Newson and C. Polster. Academic Callings: The University We Have Had, Now Have, and Could Have. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2010: 137-142.
Preface to The King of the Benighted (a Persian novella). (pp. 7-9). Washington DC: Mage Publishers., 1990: 7-9. (trans. Abbas Milani. Revised and reprinted in 1995).
Books Authored
Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity. (pp. 166). New York: Routledge, 2015.
Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001.
Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World. (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990.
Books Edited
Co-edited with Brookshaw, Forugh Farrokhzad: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry. London: I B Tauris, 2010.
Ed. Azray-e Khalvat neshin. Bethesda, Maryland: Ibex, 2010. (Persian original of the late Taghi Modarressi's last novel)
Ed. Savushun. Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 1990. (Savushun is M. R. Ghanoonparvar's English translation of a novel by Simin Daneshvar).
Encyclopedia Articles
With D. Rafinejad “King of the Benighted.” Encyclopedia Iranica, 2011 (http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/king-of-the-benighted
With Sharareh Frouzesh. “The Production of Knowledge on Women, and Islamic Cultures in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: Writing in another Language, Iranian Women.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online Edition. 2009. (http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-women-and-islamic- cultures/representations-memoirs-autobiographies-biographies-writing-in-another-language- iranian-women-writing-in-english-EWICCOM_0664?s.num=135&s.rows=50&s.start=120
Ahl-e Garq. Encyclopedia Iranica, 2009 http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ahl-e-garq
“Taqi Modarressi.” Encylopedia Iranica, 2004 http://www.iranica.com/newsite/
“Da'i Jan Napoleon.” Encyclopedia Iranica, 199http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dai-jan- napelon-lit
Reviews
Another Season, A Bilingual Edition with Critical Introduction, Annotations and Archival Material. Iranian Studies 52:5-6: 1037-1040.
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Sa’di in Love: The Lyrical Verses of Persia’s Master Poet. Iranian Studies 51.2 (2018): 331-33.
The Better Story: Queer Affects from the Middle East. Contemporary Women’s Writing 10.1 (2018): 142-3.
The World of Persian Literary Humanism. Iranian Studies, 47.4 (2014): 655-658.
The Blind Owl. Middle Eastern Literatures, 17.1 (2014): 107-109.
Caspian Rain. Ms. Magazine, 2007: 75-6.
Gender Equality in Iranian History: From Pre-Islamic Times to the Present. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 24.4 (2007): 103-105.
Martyrdom in Literature: Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity. Middle Eastern Literatures, 10.2 (2007): 198-201.
Jasmine and the Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran. The Middle East Journal, 6. 3 (2007): 535-36.
“New Iranian Writers (Zoya Pirzad and Parinush Sani’i).” [Review of. My Lot and I will turn off the Lights.]. Iran Nameh, 21.1-2 (2003): 203-209.
Esther’s Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews. Iran Nameh, 20. 2-3 (2002): 369-74.
Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography. Iran Nameh, 20.4 (2002): 531- 534.
Understanding Near Eastern Literatures: A Spectrum of Interdisciplinary Approaches. Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, 5.2 (2002): 195-96.
Rediscovering the Persian World. Canadian Literature, 174, 2002:124-126.
The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature. The Middle East Journal, 55.1 (2001): 153-154.
Women without Men. Iranian Studies, 33. 1-2 (2000): 222-24. (Kamran Talatoff and Jocelyn Sharlet, trans).
Dur az Khanah. Iranian Studies, 33.1-2 (2000): 224-26.
Qissah-yi niyaz. Iranian Studies, 32.2 (1999): 273-275.
Arab Cinematics: Toward the New and the Alternative. Edebiyat, 8 (1998): 137-39.
Suri and Co. World Literature Today, 70.2 (1996): 463.
The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 23.2 (1996): 611-13.
The Heart's Desire. World Literature Today, 70.1 (1996): 234.
Sutra and Other Stories. World Literature Today, 69.1 (1995), 214-15.
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A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave and Other Stories by Iranian Women. World Literature Today, 68.3 (1994): 628-29.
Arab and African Film Making. Edebiyat, 5.1 (1994): 176-177.
Khaterat-e parakandeh (in Persian). Iran Nameh, 12.3 (1994): 561-564.
The Color of Nothingness. The Annual of Urdu Studies, 1994: 233-35.
Statistics and Lirica Persica. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25.4 (1993): 735-36.
Stories from Iran: A Chicago Anthology 1921-1991. World Literature Today, 67.1(1993): 227.
Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25.1 (1993), 134-136.
Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers. Milani, F. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25.3 (1993): 497-99.
A Persian Requiem. World Literature Today, 66.3 (1992): 574-75.
By the Pen. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 26.2 (1992): 235.
Iranian Culture: A Persianist View. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 112 (1992): 145-46.
Le Dernier poète du monde. World Literature Today, 66.1(1992): 197-98.
Satire in Persian Literature. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 112.3 (1992): 526-27.
Women's Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran. Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, 25.3- 4 (1992): 101-103.
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution. The Washington Post, 1992.
A Girl in Paris. The Edmonton Journal, 1992.
The Cry of the Peacock. World Literature Today, 66.2 (1992): 396-397.
Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition. Review of Comparative Literature, 18.4 (1991): 637-40.
Le Bus de Shemiran. World Literature Today, 65.4 (1991): 760.
Persian Literature. Iranian Studies, 24.1-4 (1991), 104-05.
Stories by Iranian Women since the Revolution. World Literature Today, 65.4 (1991): 759-60
Desert Mirage: The True Story of the Gulf War. The Edmonton Journal, 1991.
Muslim Families in North America. The Edmonton Journal, 1991.
The Memory Garden of Miguel Carranza. The Edmonton Journal, 1991.
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Blindness and Autobiography: Al Ayyam of Taha Husayn. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 17. 1-2 (1990), 182-85.
Cry For My Revolution. Iran, Ararat, 32.28 (1991), 76.
Cry For My Revolution, Iran. Orient (Zeitschrift des Deutschen Orient Instituts), 3.4 (1990): 632.
Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette. World Literature Today, 64.2 (1990): 356.
Playhouse. World Literature Today, 64.4 (1990): 690-91.
The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette. The Edmonton Journal, 1989.
The Republic of Fear: The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq. The Edmonton Journal, 1990.
Gothic Romance. The Edmonton Journal, 1990.
Noble Sanctuary. The Edmonton Journal, 1990.
The Buddha of Suburbia and Bombay Duck. The Edmonton Journal, 1990.
The Same Sea as Every Summer. The Edmonton Journal, 1990.
Palace Walk. The Edmonton Journal. 1990
Defenders of God. The Edmonton Journal. 1990.
Barbary and Enlightenment: European Attitudes Towards the Maghreb in the 18th Century. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 16. 1-2 (1989): 330-32.
Die andere Welt. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 16.1-2 (1989): 302-04.
“Orientalism Revised: Edward W. Said's Orientalism, Rana Kabbani's Europe's Myths of Orient, and Asaf Husain et al. Orientalism, Islam, and Islamists. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 16. 1-2 (1989): 154-60.
The Beginning and the End, The Thief and the Dogs, and Wedding Song. The Edmonton Journal, 1989.
The Reception of Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize in Iranian Media. The Bulletin of the African Literature Association, 13 (1987): 10-11.
Journal Articles, Other
“Muḥammad ‘Ali Afrāshtih’s Gīlakī Verse and the Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution,” International Journal of Persian Literature, forthcoming.
“Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta: The Dissolution of a Department.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 36.2 (2009): 188-190. (Contribution to a Forum, Comparative Literature in Canada: The 40th Anniversary of CCLA).
“Literary Voices. Viewpoints” Special Edition, Middle East Institute, 74-76. (http://www.mei.edu/Publications/WebPublications/Viewpoints/ViewpointsArchive/tabid/541/ctl/De tail/mid/1623/xmid/588/xmfid/11/Default.aspx).
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Journal Articles, Peer-Reviewed
“Divorce Seen through Women's Cinematic Lens. Iranian Studies,” 42.1 (2009): 97-112.
“Border Crossing.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 27.2 (2007): 225-32.
“Overcoming the Orientalist Legacy of Iranian Modernity.” Thamyris/ Intersecting, No. 10 (2003): 147-63.
“Capturing Cultural Transformation on Film: Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence.” Edebiyat, 12 (2001): 195-214.
“Takvin-i huviyatti tazih: tajrubih-i yik diplumat-i irani dar urupa” [Constituting a New Identity: The Experiences of an Iranian Diplomat in Europe] (in Persian). Iran Nameh, 18.4 (2000): 387-400.
“Framing Iran: A Contrapuntal Reading of Two Cinematic Representations of Post-Revolutionary Iran.” Edebiyat, 9 (1998): 249-75.
“Introduction.” Nimeye Digar, 11.4 (1998): 3-16. (Special Issue on contemporary Iranian women's writing).
“Marking Gender and Difference in the Myth of a Nation: Bashu, a Post-Revolutionary Iranian Film.” Thamyris, 3.2 (1996): 261-77.
“Die Verwandlung Deterritorialized: Hedayat's Appropriation of Kafka.” Comparative Literature Studies, 31.3 (1994): 251-69.
“How To Be Persian Abroad (in Persian).” Iran Nameh, 12.4 (1994): 641-48.
“Sadeq Chubak dar adabiyat-e jahan. Daftar-e Honar,” 2.3 (1994): 252-54.
“Hedayat's Metamorphosis of 'The Metamorphosis" (in Persian). Iran Nameh No. 3 (1992): 597- 608.
“Scheherazade in Exile: Iranian Women Writers Abroad.” North Atlantic Review No. 4 (1992): 36- 47.
“The Enigma of Persian Modernism.” New Comparison No. 13 (1992): 39-45.
“The Quince Orange Tree, or Iranian Writers in Exile.” World Literature Today, 66.1 (1992): 39- 42.
“Magical Realism in Moniru Ravanipur's Ahl e gharq.” Iranian Studies, 23.1-4 (1990): 61-75.
“A Systemic Approach to Modern Persian Prose Fiction.” World Literature Today, 63 (1989): 15- 19.
“Khatibi on Orientalism.” Revue Celfan Review, 8.2 (1989): 13-15.
“The Image of the West in Three North African Texts.” The Comparatist, 13 (1998): 90-97.
“Dualism in the Role of Women: A Reading of Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters.” Chimo (1987):12-20.
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“Naïm Kattan, le discours arabe, and his Place in the Canadian Literary Discourse.” Canadian Literature No. 127 (1990): 32-8.
Reprints
“Naïm Kattan, “Le discours arabe,” and His Place in the Canadian Literary Discourse.” In New, W. H., Beaudoin, R., Fisher, S., Higgings, I., Kröller, E. M., Ricou, L. (Eds.), From a Speaking Place: Writings from the First 50 Years of Canadian Literature. (Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2009: 359- 66.
Special Issues, Edited
Alborz College, Special Issue of Iranian Studies, 44. 5 (2011).
Co-edited with B. Ghamari-Tabrizi, E. Abrahamian, The Iranian Revolution Turns Thirty, Special Issue of Radical History Review, 105, (2009).
Co-edited with Persis Karim. Iranian American Literature. Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 33.2 (2008).
Translations
Modarressi, T. The Virgin of Solitude. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008 (Translation from Persian into English).
“Homework.”. [Translation.]. Iranian Studies 30.3-4 (1997): 255-60, translation from Persian into English.
Dowlatabadi, M. “The Ominous Bermuda Triangle of the Gulf.” English translation of essay delivered during the writer's North American tour in 1991.
Conference/Workshop/Symposium Proceedings, Other
“Translations between Centre and Periphery: from Iran to the West,” In Persian Passages (Vol. 76). Southerly: 2016; http://southerlyjournal.com.au/project/persian- passages/.
Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits
Nonfiction - Anthology
"Pregnant with Sorrow", A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian- Americans. (Ed. P. M. Karim and M. M. Khorrami, New York: George Braziller , 1999: 231-38.
Presentations
“How to Represent Iran at the Intersection of Academy and Community,” keynote lecture, The Global 979 Revolution: The Iranian Revolution after Forty Years, December 2019, Columbia University
“The Latest Iranian Women Writers: What We Expect, What We Find in Their Works,” University of Maryland, 2019
“Simin Daneshvar: The Forging of an Intellectual,” Iranian Intellectuals, Tirgan, Toronto, 2019
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“The Revolution in Iranian Women’s Writing,” University of Oklahoma, 2019
Panel Moderator, Forty Years and More: Research in the Emerging Field of Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, 2019
“Stuck in a Maze of Reality: Modes of Representation in Contemporary Iranian Women’s Writing,” The Iranian Revolution and Its Disciplinary Aftereffects, Workshop, University of Michigan, 2019
Ehsan Yarshater Distinguished Lecture Series on Persian Literature, Center for Iranian Studies, SOAS, 2018
"Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Shariati's Islamic Renaissance” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Psychoanalysis and Islam, Philadelphia, 2017.
"A Bathroom of One's Own: Iranian Women’s Contemporary Prose Writing,” Special Panel, Middle Eastern Women Writers and Their Impact, University of North Carolina, 2017.
Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference, Issues of English and Other Languages, Ryerson University, 2017.
"The Anti-Heroine in Contemporary Iranian Women's Writing,” Writing the Iranian Revolution: Memory, Testimony, Time,” University of Washington, 2017.
Modern Language Association of America, Persian in Translation Roundtable, 2016.
"Repression and Iranian Cultural Memory,” Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 2016.
"Culture Iranian Style", Afrasiabi Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Washington, 2016.
Distinguished Lecture in Honor of Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature, “Modern Iranian Women Writers Shaping the Cultural Imaginary,” UC Davis, 2016.
UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran, Moderator,” Iranian Women Writing Transnationally,” 2015.
"The Contested Terrain of Iranian American Culture," Iranian Culture and Diaspora, Iranian Culture in Diaspora, USC Dornsife Middle East Studies Program and Farhang Foundation, 2015.
"Women Writing Ordinary Lives", Women, Literature and the Arts in the Middle East, Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, 2015.
Cultures of the Iranian Diaspora, Aesthetics and Politics of the Circulation of Cyrus the Great Cylinder, Discussant, San Jose State University, 2014.
"The Challenges and Rewards of Translating Arabic and Persian Literatures and Cultures". CPS 6 Speaker Series: Understanding Resistance, Occidental College, 2014.
Edible Education: A Dialogue about Food Studies, Research and Practice, Identity and Taste, co- organizer, 2014.
Cultures of the Iranian Diaspora, Iranian American Voices of the Silicon Valley, Digital Stories Project,” Discussant, San Jose State University, 2014.
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"Iranian Diasporas.” Iran Futures 2, Naval Postgraduate School, 2012.
"Kafka's First Persian Translator," German Jewish Echoes in the Contemporary Middle East, University of Chicago, 2012.
"Diversity of Fictional Genres in Iranian American Literature,” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, Santa Clara University, 2012.
"Savushun and the Paradoxes of Authenticity,” Middle East Studies Association, The Spectre of Authenticity in Persian Literary Discourse (Panel), Washington DC., 2011.
"Diversity in Jewish Iranian American Women's Writing," Jewish Iranian Women's Writing (Panel), Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, 2009.
"Writing the Ordinary in Extraordinary Times: Contemporary Iranian Women's Literature", Rewriting History in Modern Iran (Panel), Tel Aviv University Center for Iranian Studies, 2009.
"Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Desire for a Different Revolutionary Moment," Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2009.
UCLA Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Sexuality in the Middle East as part of the series Homosexualities, from Antiquity to the Present. Chair, 2009.
Gil Hochberg's In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Discussant, 2009.
"Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta: The Dissolution of a Department," Special Anniversary Session: The History, Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature, Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference, Ottawa, 2009.
Workshop on Modern Persian Literature, The College of New Jersey, 2009.
"Women and Domesticity in Modern Persian Literature," Persian Culture Series, University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
"American Studies and Iranian Studies: Bridging the Gaps between Nations and Disciplines," University of Birmingham, 2008.
“Contemporary Iranian Cultural Developments,” World Affairs Council, Grand Valley, Michigan, 2008.
"Representation of Minorities in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema,” Middle East Studies Program, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, 2008.
"The Question of Ethnicity in Modern Iranian Cultural History", The Theory and Practice of Ethnicity in the 21st century, Keynote Address, University of Lethbridge, 2008.
"What’s the Difference? Diasporic Iranian Women in the United States and Canada", Women Scholar Speakers Series, University of Lethbridge, 2008.
"Redefining Beauty in The House is Black," Forugh Farrokhzad: 40th Anniversary Conference, University of Manchester, 2008.
"Contemporary Iranian Women’s Literature", Panel Chair. Middle East Studies Association, 2007.
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"Old Muses, New Voices: Remaking and Reclaiming Iran in the Emerging Literature of the North American Iranian Diaspora," Discussant. Middle East Studies Association, 2007.
"Politics of Reading Iranian Women's Writing in the United States versus Canada," Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference, Saskatoon, 2007.
"Houman Mortazavi’s Guide to Iranian-American Life in Los Angeles", American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Puebla, Mexico, 2007.
"Future of the Sixties: Radicalism, Reform, Reaction.” Humanities Center, UCI, 2007.
"Representation of Jewish Iranian Life in Gina Barkhordar Nahai’s Narratives," Iran: The Emerging Challenge in Multiple Perspectives, Tel Aviv University Center for Iranian Studies Conference, Los Angeles, 2007.
"Women Writers in Iran Speaking to Women Writers in the Diaspora", New Ideas for Middle Eastern Societies: Analyzing Women’s Writings, UCLA, 2007.
"Boundaries and Border Crossings in Middle East Studies", Notes from the Field: Prospects and Challenges for Canadian Research in Middle East and Islamic Studies post 9/11, University of Toronto, 2005.
"Private in Public/Public in Private—A Conversation with Mahnaz Afkhami.” Private Lives and Public in Modern Iran, Oxford University, 2005.
Iranian Identity: Questions and Challenges: A Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005.
"An Iranian Diplomat in Europe", Iranian Cultural Society of Halifax, in association with the Department of English, Dalhousie University, 2005.
"Longing for Modernity: The Memoirs of Taj al-Saltanah, A Persian Princess," Iranian Cultural Society of Halifax, in association with the Department of English, Dalhousie University, 2005.
"Hedayat’s Translations of Kafka," Sadeq Hedayat Centenary Symposium, Middle East History and Theory Workshop, University of Toronto, 2003.
"Hedayat’s Translations of Kafka", The Wonderous World of Sadeq Hedayat: Iranian Writer, Critic, Intellectual (A two-day international centenary conference), Oxford University, 2003,
Plenary Speaker. The Third Biennial Conference of the Society for Iranian Studies, Washington DC., 2002.
"Masks of Childhood,” Third Biennial Conference of the Society for Iranian Studies, Washington DC. Co-presented with Liz Oscroft, 2002.
Iranian Women’s Writing (Panel), Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC., 2002.
Author meets the Critic Panel on Hamid Dabashi’s Closeup Iranian Cinema: Past, Present, and Future, Annual Meeting of the Centre for Iranian Research and Analysis, Emory University, April 2002.
"Political Slogans into Poetry: Overcoming the Rupture of the Past in A Moment of Innocence", Iranian Cinema as 21st Century Persian Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
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"The Turn to Magical Realism in Iranian Women’s Writing," Magical Realism in the Literatures of the Middle East, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
"Born into Apprehension: An Analysis of Samira Makhmalbaf’s The Apple," "Behind the Lens/Beyond the Veil" Women in Iranian Cinema,” University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, 2001.
"Translating with an Accent: Taghi Modarressi’s Virgin of Solitude,” Literature Lecture Series: Discourse of Exile, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2001.
Author Meets the Critics Session: Kamran Talattof’s The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature, Conference of the Centre for Iranian Research and Analysis, University of Toronto, 2001.
"Packing the Court in Divorce Iranian Style," Iranian Women and Cinema Conference, University of Virginia.
"Reconstituting a Persian Princess: Taj al-Saltanah," Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Lecture Series, 2001.
Traveling Texts: Exchanges between Literatures of North Africa, West Asia and Europe Conference, Plenary Speaker, Zurich, 2000.
"The Language of the Mother," University of Arizona, 2000.
"Revolution and Memory in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema,” University of Arizona Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, 2000.
"The Virgin of Solitude: Translating Persian with Anne Tyler," The F. M. Salter Lecture, Department of English, University of Alberta, 1998.
"Women and Youth Against Violence," The International Human Rights Conference: The Youth Session, Edmonton, joint presentation with L. Purcell, L., 1998.
"Literature of Iranian Diaspora," Iranian-American Cultural Association, Georgetown University, Washington DC., 1998.
"The Liquid Language of Exile: Najmeh Najafi's Persia is My Heart," Second Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies, Bethesda, Maryland, 1998.
"Rewriting of History in Güneli Gün's On the Road to Baghdad and Gina Barkhordar Nahai's Cry of the Peacock,” Modern language Association of America, Toronto, 1997.
"Taj ol-Saltaneh's Paradoxical Feminism," Annual Meeting of the Centre for Iranian Research and Analysis, Atlanta, 1997.
"Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema and Literature," University of New Brunswick, 1997.
"A Menu for Alterity: A Persian Dining in St. Petersburg," Portraits of the Self and the Other, a colloquium sponsored by the Department of French, Italian and Spanish and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Calgary, 1996.
"Writing with an Accent: Modarressi's Cultural Transformations,” Middle East Studies Association, Washington DC., joint presentation with Christopher Gibbins, 1995.
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"Centre and Periphery: Reconceptualizing Issues in Feminism," Redefining the Orient, Modern Language Association of America, San Diego, 1994.
"Metafictional Reinterpretation and the Translation of Exile," Middle East Studies Association, Phoenix, joint presentation with Christopher Gibbins, 1994.
"Gender Issues in Post-Revolutionary Iran," Discussant, Middle East Studies Association Conference, Phoenix, 1994.
"Assia Djebar's Representation of Female Subjectivity: A Double Critique," Ecrit/Ecran, University of Victoria, 1994.
"Deterritorialized Iranians in a Postmodern World," XIVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Edmonton, 1994.
"A Contrapuntal Analysis of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema and Hollywood Representations of Iran," Annual Meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Calgary, 1994.
"Alloula's Double Vision," Seminar Series Cultural Practices in Romance Languages, joint presentation with L. Ouzgane, 1994.
"Reading Rushdie Against the Contemporary Iranian Literary Scene," Rushdie Under Eastern Eyes, Modern Language Association of America, Toronto, 1993.
"Feminism, Politics, and Postcoloniality," The Edmonton Conference, Postcolonialism: Audiences and Constituencies, joint presentation in the form of a dialogue for the Opening Session with Read, 1993.
"Deterritorialization or Internationalization: Three Writers from the Middle East," The XIXth International Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, Brasilia, Brazil, 1993.
"'How to Be Persian' in a Postmodern World," First Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, co- sponsored by Columbia University, New York University, and George Washington University, Arlington, Virginia, Plenary Address, 1993.
"Beneath the Veil: A Feminist Reading of Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem," 19th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association, Guadeloupe, 1993.
"'Same Gender Play': What Escapes the Iranian Censors," Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Studies Lecture Series, University of Alberta, 1993.
"Alternate Views of the Middle East," University of Alberta, a panel discussion during International Week, 1993.
"From the Margins: Three Contemporary Historical Novels by Women," Middle East Studies Association Conference, Portland, 1992.
"Sadeq Chubak and the Art of Persian Fiction," Discussant, Middle East Studies Association Conference, Portland, 1992.
"Persian Literature in Translation: Translation as a Cultural Conduit," Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington DC., 1991.
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"Submerged in Dialect: Magical Realism in Ahl e Gharq", Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington DC., 1991.
"Literary Visions of the Iranian Expatriate," International Conference on Social and Economic Development in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Iran, Queen's University, 1991.
"Hedayat's Metamorphosis of ‘The Metamorphosis,’" International Symposium on Sadegh Hedayat and Persian Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 1991.
"The Real and the Fictional in the Character of Hajji Baba," Middle East Studies Association Conference, University of Texas, San Antonio, 1990.
"Exilic Discourse in Contemporary Persian Literature," Center for Iranian Research and Analysis Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
"Sadegh Chubak and His Place in World Literature," organized by the Iranian Study Group of the University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
"The Quince Orange Tree, or Iranian Writers in Exile," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Pennsylvania State University, 1990.
"Persian Literature in a Second Language: A Study of Cultural Emigration and Exile," Middle East Studies Association Conference, Toronto, 1989.
"A Gathering of Iranian Writers in Exile", Discussant, organized by the Iranian Student Association, University of Toronto, 1989.
"A Comparative Study of the Alba in Medieval Persian and Provençal Poetry," Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Lecture, Department of French, Dalhousie University, 1988.
"The Concept of the Middle Ages in Persian Literary History," Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Lecture, Halifax, Department of French, Dalhousie University, 1988.
"The Juxtaposition of Orient and Occident in Modern Eastern Fiction," XIIth International Comparative Literature Association Conference, Munich, 1988.
"Naïm Kattan and le discours arabe," Research Institute for Comparative Literature Conference, “Towards a History of the Literary Institution in Canada: Literatures of Lesser Diffusion,” University of Alberta, 1988.
"New Approaches to Eastern Literatures: The Case of the Iranian Author Sadegh Hedayat," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Emory University, Atlanta,1987.
"The Three Irans in Literature," University of Alberta Seminar Series in World Literature, 1987.
"Dualism in the Role of Women: A Reading of Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters," Meeting of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, McMaster University, 1987.
"A Systemic Approach to Modern Persian Prose Fiction," Meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, McMaster University, 1987.
"The Image of the West in the Works of North African Writers, Taha Husain, Tayeb Salih, and Driss Chraïbi," African Literature Association Conference, Cornell University, 1987.
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"The Development of Narrative Technique in the Works of Salman Rushdie,". Meeting of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, University of Manitoba, 1986.
"Rushdie's Grimus as a Postmodern Narrative," Commonwealth in Canada Conference, Acadia University, 1985.
"Literatures of Lesser Diffusion: Persian Literature," Department of Comparative Literature Seminar Series, University of Alberta, 1985.
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
Grant
Co-PI with Jane Newman “ILTI Grant for Comparative Literature 60A Online”, $62,000, 2017
Rahimieh, Nasrin, "PARSA Community Foundation Lectureship," PARSA Community Foundation, $300,000, 2011
Rahimieh, Nasrin (Principal Investigator), "Life Writing by Iranian Women," Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, $54,454.00. 2003 - 2006.
Professional Service
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Middle East Critique, 2020
Manuscript Reviewer, Syracuse University Press, 2020
Manuscript Reviewer, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Diaspora, 2020
Manuscript Reviewer, Syracuse University Press, 2020
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2019
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2019
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 2019
Ad-Hoc Reviewer for the journal, Dibur, special issue on Translational Transactions, with a focus on translations to and from Middle Eastern languages, 2019
Ad-Hoc Reviewer for Law and History Review 2019
Member of the Conference Program Committee, Middle East Studies Association, 2019
Promotion, Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Duke University, 2019
Promotion, Teaching Professor of Persian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2019
Reviewer, Translated Novel, Syracuse University Press, 2019
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Ad-Hoc Reviewer, 2019
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External Reviewer (with Michael Bonner), Department of Middle East Studies and Center for Middle East Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
Women’s Studies International Forum, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2018
Dr. Malakeh Taleghani Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Studies, University of Arizona, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
CLCWebComparative Literature and Culture, International Advisory Board, 2014
Modern Language Association, Member of the Executive Committee of the West Asian Forum, 2018 - 2023
Princeton University, Appointment with Tenure, 2018
Cambridge University Press, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2017
Cultural Critique, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2017
International Journal of Iranian Studies, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2017
Journal of Asian American Studies, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2017
Tenure and Promotion University of Texas at Austin, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2017
Anthropology of the Middle East, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
Bloomsbury Publishing, Manuscript Reviewer, 2016
Edinburgh University Press, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Strasbourg, Extramural Funding Reviewer, 2016
International Journal of Iranian Studies, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
Rutledge, Manuscript Reviewer, 2016
Syracuse University Press, 2016
The Cinema Journal, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Extramural Funding Reviewer, 2016
Volkswagen Foundation, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2015
Middle Eastern Literatures, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2015
The City College of The City University of New York, External Reviewer for Promotion, 2015
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Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2015.
Canadian Literature, Journal Article Reviewer, 2014
Minnesota University Press, Reviewer, 2014
National Humanities Center, Reviewer, 2014
San Jose State University's Persian Studies program, Reviewer, 2014
Comparative Literature Studies, Reviewer, 2013 - 2014
Iravani Award committee, International Society for Iranian Studies, Member, 2013 - 2014
American Council of Learned Societies, Extramural Funding Reviewer, 2011 - 2014
International Area Studies Review, Journal Article Reviewer, 2014
Academic Program Review for University of Arizona School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Chair, 2013
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia, Reviewer, 2013
External Examiner, Doctoral Thesis, University of Malaya, 2013
SUNY Press, Reviewer, 2013
Translation Studies, Reviewer, 2013
Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Partington Award Committee, Member, 2011 - 2013
American University, Tenure and Promotion, External Assessor, 2012
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Reviewer, 2012
Iranian Studies, Member, Advisory Council, 2003 - 2012
American University of Cairo, Tenure and Promotion, External Assessor, 2011
Carrington Award Committee of the Middle East Librarians Association, Member, 2011
Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage, President, Elected. 2010 - 2011
Cinema Journal, Reviewer, 2010
Comparative Literature, Reviewer, 2010
Comparative Literature Studies, Reviewer, 2010
Edinburgh University Press, Reviewer, 2010
Stanford University Press, Reviewer, 2010
Tenure and Promotion, University of Pennsylvania, External Assessor, 2010
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The Journal of Transnational American Studies, Reviewer, 2010
Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage, Secretary, 2009 - 2010
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Journal Article Reviewer, 2009
Mosaic Programme, NOW, Extramural Funding Reviewer, Netherlands, 2009
Promotion, University of Texas at Austin, External Assessor, 2009
Studies in Travel Writing, Reviewer, 2009
Tenure and Promotion, University of the United Arab Emirates, External Assessor, 2009
Transoceanic Studies Series, The Ohio State University Press, Reviewer, 2009
Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA, External Reviewer, 2008
Syracuse University Press, Reviewer, 2008
Tenure and Promotion, York University, External Assessor, 2008
University of Texas Press, Reviewer, 2008
University Press of Florida, Reviewer, 2008
NOW, Council for the Humanities, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Extramural Funding Reviewer, 2007- 2008
International Society for Iranian Studies, President, 2006 -2008
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, Extramural Funding Reviewer, 2004 - 2008
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, External Reviewer, 2007
Houchang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Chair, 2007
Promotion, Purdue University, External Assessor, 2007
Routledge, Reviewer, 2007
University of Texas Press, Manuscript Referee, 2007
The International Fiction Review, Reviewer, 2005
International Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, Reviewer, 2004
Palgrave Macmillan Press, Reviewer, 2004
PMLA Journal of Modern Language, Reviewer, 2004
Queen's University, Reviewer, 2004
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University of Minnesota Press, Reviewer, 2004
University of South Carolina Press, Reviewer, 2004
Fifth Biennial Conference for the International Society of Iranian Studies, Program Coordinator, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004
University of Lethbridge Research Grant, Extramural Funding Reviewer, 2003
University of Minnesota Press, Manuscript Referee, 2003
University of Texas Press, Manuscript Referee, 2003
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Chair, 2002 -2003
Executive Council of the Society for Iranian Studies, Member, 2001- 2003
Secretariat of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue de Literature Comparėe, Member, 1990-2002
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Reviewer, 2001 i human 2060, Gun Sculpture for Peace and Youth Journal, Funded by the Millennium Bureau of Canada, Board of Directors, 1998 - 2000
Dalhousie French Review, Reviewer, 1998
PMLA Journal of Modern Language Association of America, Reviewer, 1998
Thamyris, Reviewer, 1998
West Asian Division for Languages and Literatures, MLA, Member, Executive Committee,1995 - 1998
Modern Persian Literature Section, World Literature Today, Reviewer, 1989 –1996.
Albert Hourani Book Award Committee, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Member, 1994
18th-Century Studies Group, an interdisciplinary study group at the University of Alberta, Member. (1992 - 1994).
Chanteh, a cross-cultural Iranian quarterly, Editor, Washington DC., 1992-1993
Arab-Jewish Women's Coalition for Peace, Occasional participant in meetings, 1991- 1993
West Asian Division, Literary Research/Recherch Leittdroire (McGill University for the International Comparative Literature Association), Editor, 1991 - 1993
Par Monthly Journal, Editorial Review Board Member, Washington DC. 1989 – 1993
The Edmonton Journal, Reviewer, 1989 - 1992
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TEACHING
Doctoral Committee
2020, Elham Naeej, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of New South Wales 2020, Shervin Emami, NELC, UCLA 2020, Sahba Shayani, NELC, UCLA 2020, Maziyar Faridi, Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University 2019, Jay Friesen, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta 2018, Parisa Vaziri, Member 2017, Alexander Jabbari, Chair 2017, Monica Katiboglu, Chair 2017, Elahe Dehnavi, English, External Examiner, University of Alberta 2017, Thomas Thompson, Member 2015, Ali Meghdadi, Chair 2015, Allia Griffin, Member Literature, UCSD 2013, Sharareh Frouzesh, Chair 2013, Claudia Yaghoobi, Member, Comparative Literature, UCSB, 2012, Leila Pazargadi, Co-Chair Comparative Literature, UCLA 2012, Amy Tahani-Bidemeshki, Member, Comparative Literature, UCLA 2012, Philip Grant, Member 2011, Kyle Wanberg, Chair 2011, Anna Caveness, Member 2011, Blake Atwood, Member, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin 2011, Guilan Siassi, Member, Comparative Literature, UCLA 2011, Mahmood Khoshchehreh, Member, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University 2011, Mohsen Dehghanifarsani, Member, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III 2006, Khatereh Sheibani, Co-Chair, University of Alberta 2004, Manijeh Mannani, Co-Chair, University of Alberta 2003, Diana Spokiene, Member 2003, Jolene Armstrong, Member 2003, Justnya Szachowicz-Sempruch, Supervisor 2003, Kristof Kozak, Supervisor 2002, Gerald Stephen White, Member 2002, Nima Naghibi, Member 2002, Shazia Rahman, Member 2002, Susan Hopkirk, Member 2001, Zhong Lin, Member 2001, Christopher Gibbins, Supervisor 2000, Alan Richards, Member 2000, Karin Stoner-Singer, Member 2000, Slobodan Sucur, Member 1999, Cathy Steblyk, Member 1999, Romita Choudhury, Member 1998, Negar Mottahedeh, Member 1998, Nima Mina, Member 1997, Theresa Shea, Member 1996, Angela Winter, Member 1996, Catherine Nelson-McDermott, Member 1996, Katy Emck, Member 1996, Qigang Yan, Member 1995, Bruno Cunniah, Member
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1995, Dan Coleman, Member 1994, Ahmed Bangura, Member 1994, Ekaterini Nikolarea, Member 1994, Evelyn Ellerman, Member 1994, Linda Warley, Member 1994, May Charles, Member 1993, Ranga Zinyemba, Member
Doctoral Candidacy Committee
2019, Fouad Oveisy, Co-Chair 2019, Halah Darwazeh, Member, Comparative Literature, UCLA 2019, Donna Honarpisheh, Member, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley 2019, Marziyeh Kameli, Member, Comparative Literature, UC Riverside, 2019 2018, Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Kansas 2018, Ehsan Farshchi, Member, Sociology, UCI, 2018 2018, Mariam Rahmani, Co-Chair with Ali Behdad, Comparative Literature, UCLA 2018, Erica Cheung, Oversight Member 2015, Thomas Thompson, Member Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, UCLA 2014, Alexander Jabbari, Chair 2014, Monica Katiboglu, Chair 2014, Sahba Shayani, Member Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, UCLA 2013, Ghada Mourad, Co-Chair 2012, Ali Meghdadi, Chair 2012, Shadee Malaklou, Chair 2012, Allia Homayoun, Member Literature, UCSD 2012, Mohammad Rafi, Member 2011, Shervin Emami, Co-Chair Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. UCLA 2011, Elham Mireshghi, Member 2011, Hamid Reza Yeganehshakib, Member 2011, Conrad Harter, Oversight Member 2009, Sharareh Frouzesh, Chair 2009, Amy Tahani-Bideshki, Member Comparative Literature, UCLA 2009, Guilan Siassi, Member Comparative Literature, UCLA 2009, Philip Grant, Member 2008, Burcu Polat, Member 2007, Kyle Wanberg, Member
Master's Thesis Committee
2020, Danah Alfailakawi, Member 2019, Yassaman Rahimi, Chair 2018, Babak Mazloumi, Member 2017, Song Xiuhua Shafiqah Nadiah Bente Ismail, External Examiner, National Univ. Singapore 2017, Mariam Rahmani, Member 2016, Erica Cheung, Member 2016, Jessica Pruett, Member 2012, Alexander Jabbari, Chair 2012, Monica Katiboglu, Chair
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2012, Parisa Vaziri, Member 2010, Sara Mashayekh, Member 2010, Zainab Cheema, Member 2009, Ali Meghdadi, Chair 2009, Maryam El-Shall, Chair 2008, Leila Pazargadi, Member Comparative Literature, UCLA 2007, Amy DePaul, Member 2007, Sharareh Frouzesh, Member 2001, Laura Taylor, Member 1998, Gerald Stephen White, Member 1998, Paege Moore, Member 1998, Sharon Petkau, Member Non-Thesis MA Project 1998, Saloni Negi, Supervisor 1997, Karen Chow, Member 1997, Nina Erfani, Supervisor 1996, Jasna Savovic, Member 1995, Elizabeth Fulton co-supervisor with William Beard (Comparative Studies), MA 1995, Katarina Relja 1995, Jessica Theresa Dias, Host 1994, Brian Noble, Member 1994, Geraldine M. Weaver, Member 1994, Jody Lynn Jessiman Ballah, Member 1994, Lisa Bonato, Member 1994, Lissa May Cadillon, Member 1994, Lucienne Marie Colbourne, Member 1994, Madhavi Gupta, Member 1994, Marlene Lewis, Member 1994, Mary McNamee, Member 1994, Sean Craig Norbert Carney, Member 1994, James Penney, Supervisor 1994, Malgosia Mozdzenska, Supervisor 1993, Charlotte Garrett, Member 1993, Jean Louise Noble, Member 1993, Audrey Butts-Smith, Supervisor 1992, Ken Williams, Member 1992, Margaret Ann Bowers, Member 1991, Catherine A. Harvey, Member 1990, Christine Louise Stewart, Member 1990, Lise Anne Lavigne, Member 1989, Mildred Klassen, Member
Competitive Edge Program
2018, Joseph Linguas, Advisor
Undergraduate Honors Thesis
2020, Nikta Eftekharzadeh 2018, Aya Labanieh 2017, Zeina Mousa
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Undergraduate Research Supervision
2017, Aya Labanieh, UROP, USURP 2016, Zeina Mousa, UROP and SURP 2015, Marwa Aboubaker, UROP and SURP 2010, Nilou Moslehi, UROP 2009, Angelique Pivoine, UROP
Visiting Scholar
2012, Maria Blaim, Supervisor Fulbright PhD Scholar, Germany
SERVICE
Department Service
Department of Comparative Literature Chair, 2016-19
Departmental Merger Committee Member, 1998 - 1999
Comparative Literature Divisional Coordinator, September 1998 - December 1998
Comparative Literature Undergraduate Advisor, 1997
Ad-Hoc Committee on the Representation of Students and Sessionals on the Divisional Council Chair, 1996
Departmental Graduate Committee Graduate Coordinator and Chair, 1993 - 1994
Modern languages and Comparative Studies Curriculum Committee Member, 1993 - 1994
Summer Youth University Supervisor, 1992 - 1994
Departmental Ad-Hoc Committee to Revise PhD Examination Regulations Chair, 1992 - 1993
Departmental Equity Planning Committee Chair, 1992 - 1993
Departmental Graduate Committee Member, 1992 - 1993
Departmental Ad Hoc Committee on Policies Regarding Sessional Lecturers, 1991 - 1993
School/College Service
School of Humanities Ad-Hoc Committee on Minors
Graduate Fellowships Committee, 2020
Faculty Development Committee 2019-
Humanities Core Course, Director, 2019-2022
Humanities Core Executive Committee Member, Appointed. January 2017–June 30 ,2019
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The Naneh Award for Graduate Research in Armenian Studies, Member, Selection Committee, 2019
Global Cultures Committee Member, 2017- 2020
Ad-Hoc Committee, Personnel Review for Professor of Humanities, 2018
Ad-Hoc Committee for Five-Year Review of the Chair of Spanish and Portuguese Member, 2018
Interim Director, Culture and Theory PhD Program, 2015-16
Search Committee for the Dean of Humanities Member, 2012
Humanities Executive Committee Chair, Elected, 2010 - 2012
Humanities Executive Committee Member, Elected, 2008 - 2010
Building Advisory Committee, UCI Member, 2007 - 2008
Task Force on Language Instruction, UCI Member, 2007 - 2008
University of Alberta Associate Dean (Humanities) of Arts, 1999 - 2002
Humanities Computing Program Committee Chair, 2001
McCalla Adjudication Committee, University of Alberta Member, 1996 - 1999
Selection Committee for Chair of the Women's Studies Program, University of Alberta Member, 1998
Dean's Advisory Committee on Globalization, University of Alberta, 1997 - 1998
Dean's Advisory Committee on Middle Eastern and African Studies, University of Alberta,1996 - 1998
Faculty Equity Discussion Group Chair, 1997
Selection Committee for Position in Minority-Diasporic Position in English, University of Alberta Member, 1997
Selection Committee for Position in Theory in Drama, University of Alberta, 1997
Dean's Advisory Task Force on the Employability of Arts Graduates, University of Alberta, 1996
SAS Grants Committee, University of Alberta, July 1, 1992 - June 30, 1995)
Chair Selection Committee in the Department of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, University of Alberta, 1993
Selection Committee for the tenure track position in language methodology in Spanish and French in the Department of Romance Languages, University of Alberta ,1993
Organizing Committee for a conference sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, “Critical Difference: Theorizing Women's Intercultural Narratives,” University of Alberta, 1993
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Selection Committee for the tenure track position in postcolonial literature in the Department of English, University of Alberta, 1992
University Service
Selection Committee for Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication, 2020
Committee on Distinctions 2020-
Committee on Student Excellence Center in Ayala Science Library Co-Chair, 2018-19
Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources, Chair. 2017-18
Academic Planning Group, 2017-18.
Council on Research, Computing, and Library Resources, Member, 2016-17
Big Ideas Challenge Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2018
University Council on Research Policy, Vice Chair, 2018-19
University Council on Research Policy, Member, 2017-18
School of Humanities Ad-Hoc Committee on Languages, Member, September - December 2016
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, Member, 2015
Council on Faculty Welfare, Diversity, and Academic Freedom, Member 2013 -15
Review of the Campus Wide Honors Program Reviewer, April 2014
Committee on Privilege and Tenure, UCI, Member, 2007 - 2010
UCI Difficult Dialogues Project, Member, 2006- 10
UCEAP Faculty Advisory Committee on Arabic and Islamic Studies Member, 2006- 07
McMaster University Board of Governors member, 2004- 06
University Planning Committee, McMaster University, 2004-05
President’s Advisory Committee on Building an Inclusive Community, McMaster University, 2003- 05
Senate, McMaster University, 2003- 05
International Activity Fund, University of Alberta, 1999- 2002
Graduate Assistantship Policy Committee, University of Alberta, 1996- 99
Arts Faculty Representative, General Faculties Council, University of Alberta, July 1, 1993 - June 30, 1996
Dean of Graduate Studies Advisory Committee, University of Alberta, December 1993 - 1995
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Graduate Assistantship Policy Committee, University of Alberta, January 1, 1994 - June 30, 1995
Women's Studies Advisory Committee, University of Alberta, 1992- 94
Women's Studies Program Committee, University of Alberta, 1989- 94
Public Service
Guest Speaker, USC Iranian Graduate Student Association, 2012
Board Member, Iranian American Scholarship Fund, San Diego, 2010- 12
Advisor, Khayyam Persian School Foundation, Irvine, 2008-10
Co-Chair, Mehregan Foundation, San Diego, 2008- 10
Translator, Alberta Provincial Court, Edmonton, Alberta, 1997 - 2001
Translator, Encyclopedia Iranica, 1992
Registered Translator, Arista Translation Agency, Edmonton, 1986
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