Nasrin RahimiehProfessor, Comparative Literature Maseeh Chair and Director, Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture |
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Research Interests |
Modern Persian Literature, Iranian Diaspora, Women's Writing, Iranian Cinema | |
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Academic Distinctions | University of Alberta, Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award 2000 | |
| Appointments |
McMaster University, 2003-2006 University of Alberta, 1989-2003 |
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Research Abstract |
Dr. Rahimieh’s research has focused on intercultural encounters between Iran and the West, modern Persian literature, literature of exile and displacement, women’s writing, and post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Her publications include Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays on Muslim Writers from the Middle East (Brill, 1990) and Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage (Syracuse University Press, 2001). Her reviews and articles have appeared in Iranian Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Iran Nameh, The Middle East Journal, The Comparatist, Thamyris, Edebiyat, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Canadian Literature, and New Comparison. | |
| Publications |
Books Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001, 208 pp Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990, 124 pp Translation from Persian into English of the novel The Virgin of Solitude, by Taghi Modarressi, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008, 384 pp Co-editor, special issue of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Iranian American Literature 33.2 (2008), 208 pp Selected Articles and Chapters in Books “Divorce Seen through Women's Cinematic Lens,” Iranian Studies 42:1 (2009): 97-112. “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. “Border Crossing,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27.2 (2007): 225-232. “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. Mohamad Mehdi Khorrami and M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2007: 21-35. “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 “Refocusing Alloula's Gaze: A Feminist Reading of The Colonial Harem,” in Atlantic Cross-Currents: Transatlantiques, eds. Susan Z. Andrade, Eileen Julien, Micheline Rice-Maximin, and Aliko Songolo, Trenton: Africa World Press, 2001: 91-100. “Framing Iran: A Contrapuntal Reading of Two Cinematic Representations of Post Revolutionary Iran,” Edebiyat 9 (1998): 249-275 “Iranian-American Literature,” in New Immigrant Literatures of the United States: A Sourcebook, ed. Alpana Sharma Knippling, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996: 109-124 |
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| Grant | Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, Life Writing by Iranian Women, $54,454 (2003-2006) | |
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Professional Societies |
Past-President, International Society for Iranian Studies Middle East Studies Association of North America Canadian Comparative Litertaure Association |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5357 | |
| Last updated | 10/06/2009 | |