Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation, “Forugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective,” is a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet. A past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of an All […]
Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and affiliate faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego and Associate Editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies.She is the author of Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU Press, 2015) and Switched-on Bach (Bloomsbury […]
Speaker: Yidan Wang, Peking University
Kaveh Askari is an associate professor in the film studies program at Michigan State University and author of Making Movies into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood (BFI, 2014). He has co-edited four volumes of essays on film history including, most recently with Samhita Sunya, a special issue of Film History […]
Zuzanna Olszewska is an associate professor in the social anthropology of the Middle East at the University of Oxford. She specializes in the ethnography of Iran and Afghanistan, with a focus on Afghan refugees in Iran, the Persian-speaking Afghan diaspora, and the anthropology of literature and cultural production. She received her doctorate in social anthropology […]
Zahra Khosroshahi is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto working on Iranian cinema. She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance (Edinburgh University Press). Zahra’s research explores how the visual medium challenges systems of power, and how filmmaking specifically functions as a form of resistance […]
Niloofar Haeri is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the Program Chair in Islamic Studies. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has written on Egypt and Iran. Her most recent book (2021), Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Praver & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press), is the 2021 recipient of the […]
"Tainted Veil" revisits the question of desire and the making of poetic subjectivity in the Persianate literary archives of South Asia. It examines the nom de plume, life and poetry of Dagh Dehlvi, Munni Bai Hiiab and Mir Yar Ali Khan "an Sahib" in the Persianate milieu of nineteenth-century Delhi, Rampur, Calcutta and Hyderabad. The […]
Simin Karimi with a 1989 Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from the University of Washington in Seattle, Simin Karimi is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She served as the department head in 2011-2016 and the interim department head in 2007. In addition, she has been the Chair of […]
Ahoo Najafian is Assistant Professor of Religion at Macalester College where she teaches on Islam, gender, arts, and literature. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion. literature, and politics in Iran and intellectual history of the related concepts. She is working on a manuscript, titled Poetic Nation: Iranian Soul and Historical Continuity, on the […]
Dr. Mahrokhsadat Hosseini is a research associate at the University of Sussex. Iranian women's poetry, gender studies and feminist literary theories, in particular French feminism are her main fields of research. She has benefited from Luce Irigaray's extraordinary expertise and subsequent feedback in her seminars where selected postgraduate researchers work in collaboration with her each […]
Saeed Talajooy is Assistant Professor in Persian at the University of St Andrews. Talajooy has taught and published on literature, drama and cinema in Iran and the Ok. and is currently teaching comparative literature and Persian modules on Iranian drama cinema, son and literature traditions. His research is on the point of convergence between cultural […]