Professor of Comparative Literature
Director of Samuel Jordan center for Persian Studies and Culture

Books Forugh Farrokhzad: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry, co-edited with Dominic Parzviz Brookshaw, London: I B Tauris, 2010, 236 pp 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 Journal Articles “Literary Voices,” Viewpoints Special Edition, Middle East Institute, 74-76, http://www.mei.edu/Publications/WebPublications/Viewpoints/ViewpointsArchive/tabid/541/ctl/Detail/mid/1623/xmid/588/xmfid/11/Default.aspx “Divorce Seen through Women's Cinematic Lens,” Iranian Studies 42:1 (2009): 97-112. “Border Crossing,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27.2 (2007): 225-232. “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

Modern Persian Literature
Literary Translation
Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies
Women's Writing

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Maseeh Chair and Director, UCI