Nader Nasiri is a graduate student in English in the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought program at the University of Victoria. His academic interests center on modern Persian literature, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and narrative analysis, with a particular focus on the relationship between literature, history, and social life. His current MA research examines the modern realist Persian novel Savushun through the lens of Fredric Jameson’s concept of the political unconscious, exploring how literary form reflects broader historical and ideological conditions in postcolonial Iran.
Nader holds an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Science and Culture in Tehran, where his research compared heroic literature of the 1960s with everyday life narratives of the 1980s in Iran. He also earned a BA in English Literature from Azad University in Tehran, completing a research project that applied narratological theory to William Faulkner’s work. His scholarship has been presented at international conferences on contemporary Iran, and he has contributed to Persian translations of major works in cultural theory and sociology by scholars such as Fredric Jameson and Stuart Hall. Fluent in Persian and English, he is committed to making complex concepts accessible to diverse audiences.