Sharareh Frouzesh
Continuing Lecturer, Humanities Core Program
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2013, Comparative Literature (with Formal Emphases in Critical Theory and Gender & Sexuality Studies)
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 2007, Comparative Literature
M.A., University of Chicago, 2004, Social Sciences
B.A., University of California, Irvine, 1999, Philosophy & Political Science
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 2007, Comparative Literature
M.A., University of Chicago, 2004, Social Sciences
B.A., University of California, Irvine, 1999, Philosophy & Political Science
Email: frouzesh@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
185 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697
185 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Comparative mythology; critical theory; political philosophy; psychoanalysis; gender studies; 20th and 21st century Iranian and Iranian-diaspora literatures; Anglophone South African literature; postcolonial world literatures in translation
Academic Distinctions
Sharareh Frouzesh, Ph.D.
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Publications
“Black Monstrosity, White Criminal Innocence: The Misogynoir of the Monomyth and its Oedipal Exception, or how Man is made.” Political Theology (TBD, accepted for special issue on Political Theology and Black Thought)
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=ypot20
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=ypot20
"Comparative and World Literature." Humanities Core Handbook 2020–2021, Beauchamp, Tamara, ed.. XanEdu, 2020. 50-59.
“How to Make a Barbarian in Three Steps.” Humanities Core Research Blog, 2016-17. http://sites.uci.edu/humcoreblog/2016/11/19/how-to-make-a-barbarian-in-three-steps/
“The Utopia that Never Was.” Humanities Core Research Blog, 2016-17. http://sites.uci.edu/humcoreblog/2017/05/24/the-utopia-that-never-was/
“The Receding Horizon: Iranian Films and the Overcoming of the Melancholia of Justice.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. Issue 35: New Paradigms in the Study of Modern “Middle Eastern” Literatures (2015): 152-177. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24772815?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
The Use and Abuse of Guilt. University of California, Irvine, Ph.D. Dissertation (2013). https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1415892877.html?FMT=ABS
(with Nasrin Rahimieh) “Articulations of Resistance in Modern Persian Literature.” Chapter in Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures. Eds., K. Laachir and S.R.Talajooy. Routledge, December 2012. 79-98. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gVrz7eRDp-8C&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=sharareh+frouzesh&ots=1B02Yu4A9a&sig=KJ2bXHBTXSfu2qM4aPtIdOGAw8o#v=onepage&q=sharareh%20frouzesh&f=false
“The Politics of Appropriation: Writing, Responsibility, and the Specter of the Native Informant.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature. Volume 57 (2011): 252-268. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/520347/summary?casa_token=1GTULFHUOr8AAAAA:YeS-DI58TyNGWL_fjmgBwjSj6e9Q9P4gfc8eQHDY859Drvg6plTmCLj2Zn5YRq5n_7pYFN_Cpw
(with Nasrin Rahimieh) “Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies: Writing in Another Language: Iranian Women Writing in English.” Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. General Editor Suad Joseph. Brill, 2010. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-women-and-islamic-cultures/representations-memoirs-autobiographies-biographies-writing-in-another-language-iranian-women-writing-in-english-EWICCOM_0664
Review of “Caspian Rain” by Gina Barkhordar Nahai. MELUS Journal, Volume 33, No. 2 (Summer 2008): 183-184. https://academic.oup.com/melus/article-abstract/33/2/183/1004424?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Last updated
09/29/2023
09/29/2023