Dr. Mehraneh Ebrahimi is an Assistant Professor of English at York University and the author of the book Women, Art, and Literature in the Iranian Diaspora (Syracuse UP, 2019). Her second monograph, titled “Refugee Narratives: Dignity, Agency, & Voice in Iranian Exilic Life Writing,” is currently under review. Her research straddles the fertile interstice between fine art, politics, and literature. She is the recipient of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Explore and York University Research grants and was placed on Western University’s teaching Honor Roll twice for excellence in undergraduate teaching.