Bakhtiari, Hanieh

Hanieh Bakhtiari is a PhD student in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her research interests encompass sexuality, gender studies, and the history of women’s writing in the Middle East. Hanieh’s current project explores the co-constitution of femininity and modernity in early twentieth-century Iran. Hanieh has published “A Cinematic Rupture with the Mythic Representation of Male Nudity” in the Journal of Bodies, Sexualities and Masculinities. She is also an active participant in the University of Toronto-based Women Poets Iranica research project. Prior to her doctoral studies, Hanieh completed her MA at Western University, where she conducted an independent research project titled “Feminism and Its Usability: A Study of Iranian New Men and Their Claim to Feminism.”