Brief CV
Publications
The Maypole of Merry Vagabonds: Hawthorne’s “The Seven Vagabonds” and the Birth of Conservative Utopia (Anglia, 2023, in press)
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Robert Frost’s dramatic monologue: The two sides of the narrative in “A Servant to Servants” (Brno Studies in English, 2022)
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Toward Strategic Auto-Orientalism in Iranian-American Self-Narrative: A Critique of Jasmin Darznik’s The Good Daughter
(Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2022)
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Self-Destructive Double Questers: A Psychosocial Study of Suicide in Paul Auster’s The Locked Room (co-authors: Dr. Maryam Beyad, Mona Jafari)
(Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 2022)
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Damsels in Distress: Manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran
(British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2022)
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The Newfound Politics of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” (co-author: Mohammad Jalilian)
(Ars Artium, January 2022)
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From the American Eve to the European(ized) Eve in Henry James’s the Portrait of a Lady (co-author: Dr. Parisa Pooyandeh), (Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Taylor & Francis, UK, 2022)
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Poetry as Hypertext: Milton, Eliot, and the Possibilities of Intertextuality Today (co-author: Nima Gharesi Fard)
(Millennium Journal of English Literature, Linguistics and Translation, 2021)
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“Critical Literacies in Iran: A Tour D’horizon” in The Handbook of Critical Literacies (co-authors: Dr. Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, Dr. Arman Abednia), (Routledge, US, 2021)
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In Quest of “the North Korean Human”: Reza Amirkhani in the Wonderland
(North Korean Review, McFarland & Company, US, 2021)
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- Narrowing the Digital Divide in Iran during Pandemic
(Advancing Education: The Naace Journal, UK, 2021)
- Review of “A Half of One-Sixth of Pyongyang” by Reza Amirkhani
(Asian Studies Review, Taylor & Francis, UK, 2021)
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- The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature (co-author: Maryam Khorasani)
(International Research in Children’s Literature, Edinburgh University Press, UK, 2021)
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- “Borders Made in Great Britain”: In Conversation with Reza Amirkhani about his Afghanistan Travelogue, Janistan, Kabulistan
(Studies in Travel Writing, Routledge, UK, 2019)
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- “A labor of love”: On the perils and seductions of writing about Iran. An Interview with Jill Worrall
(Studies in Travel Writing, Routledge, UK, Nov. 2018)
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- When America Downed an Iranian Airliner and Celebrated It!
(Counterpunch, July 4, 2018)
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- “The Blind Censor”, “Keys to Heaven”, and the Orientalist Within
(Counterpunch, May 29, 2018)
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- Constructing Alterity: Colonial Rhetoric in Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without My Daughter
(Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, US, Nov. 2017)
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- Not Without My Daughter: Resurrecting the American Captivity Narrative
(American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, American Institute of Islamic Thought, US, Sep. 2017)
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- The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Shiʿte Iran in Naipaul’s “Islamic” Travelogues
(Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies, UK, Summer 2016)
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- Orientalism Beyond Belief: Critiquing the Problematics of V. S. Naipaul’s “Islamic” Travelogue,
(Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics , Iran, Spring 2017)
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- Reading Islamophobia in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran
(U.S. Studies Online, British Association for American Studies, July 2015)
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- Review of Being a Muslim in the World by Professor Hamid Dabashi,
(Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, UK, Winter 2014/15)
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- De/Constructing the Iranian Other: Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Three Paradigmatic
American Memoirs
(PhD Dissertation, University of Canterbury, August 2015)
- Orientalist Fiction in Two Non-Fictions of V. S. Naipaul: Representations of Iran in Among the Believers and Beyond Belief
(MA Thesis; University of Tehran, August 2009)
Translations
Translation into English of the play “Home” by Naghmeh Samini in New Iranian Plays (Aurora Metro Books, UK, Sep. 2021)
Translation and Preface to “Breaking Hegemony: A Collection of Articles by Edward Said on Islam, Iran, and the Hostage Crisis” (Tarjoman Publishing, Nov. 2018)
Translation of the short story “The Silk” by Joy Cowley (Hamshahri Dastan 86, March 2018)
The short story “Khalegh” (Hamshahri Dastan 94, December 2018)
Translation of the short story “Kenneth’s Friend” by Owen Marshall (Hamshahri Dastan 102, March 2018)
Translation of three poems by Leila Kordbache in Parsagon: The Persian Literature Review , March 2020
Three Poems by Hossein Nazari, published in Parsagon: The Persian Literature Review (Vol 05)
Conferences & Talks
- The Image of Eve in Mark Twain’s “Extracts from Adam’s Diary” and “Eve’s Diary”
Faculty Research Lectures, 24th Session, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, 2021 (Nov.) Tehran, Iran - Saving White Women from Brown Men
The Second International Conference on Contemporary Iranian Studies, 2021 (2 November), University of Tehran, Iran. - Shiʿa Muslim Feminism: Alternative Voices of Resistance
Sixth Annual Conference on Shi’i Studies, London, UK, March 2021. - The World, the Text, the Critic: Reflections on Edward Said’s Legacy
Sixth Humanities Night, (On Postcolonialism), Asre Andishe Organization, 2018 (Dec.) Tehran, Iran
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- Not Without My Daughter: A Latter-Day American Captivity Narrative
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, 2018 (Oct.) Tehran, Iran
- The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Shiʿite Iran in Naipaul’s “Islamic” Travelogues
2nd International Conference on Shiʿi Studies, Islamic College, 2016 (May) London, England
- Developing a Peace-Oriented Curriculum Based on Prophet Mohammad’s Code of Ethics: A Native Solution for a Violence-Stricken Region
Vienna International Congress on Science and/or Religion: A Debate of the 21st Century (Co-presented with Prof. Rezvan Hakimzadeh), 2015 (Aug.) Vienna, Austria
- The Familiar King of Letters in the Letters of Foreign Disciples: The Imprint of Sa’di on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Kashan, 2015 (May) Kashan, Iran
- Iran: A Tour D’horizon
University of Canterbury Postgraduate International Presentation, 2013 (Nov.) Christchurch, New Zealand
- Cracking the Monolith: Edward Said, Revolution, and Hostage Taking
Edward W. Said: Public Intellectual, Cultural Critic, Activist Symposium, University of Otago, 2013 (Oct.)
Dunedin, New Zealand
- Naturalism in the Works of Sadeq Chubak and Thomas Hardy
The 2nd International Conference on Literature and Science, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, 2008 (Nov.) Tehran, Iran
- Form-Focused Instruction Through Stories
The 4th TELLSI Conference, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Shiraz (co-presented with Dr. Arman Abednia), 2008 (Feb.) Shiraz, Iran
- The Mad King: Analyzing Madness in Shakespeare’s King Lear
The 1st Research Seminar in English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, 2007 (Jan.) Tehran, Iran
Thesis Supervision & Examination
A Postcolonial Reading of Don Delillo’s Falling Man and John Updike’s Terrorist through the Lens of Homi K. Bhabha’s Theories (2022) (Supervisor, MA thesis; University of Tehran)
Marginalized History in Dickens’s Great Expectations and Bleak House
(2022) (Supervisor, MA thesis; University of Tehran)- Through a Carnival Mirror: A Comparative Study of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons (The Possessed) from a Narratological Point of View (2021) (Advisor, MA thesis; University of Tehran)
- The Impact of Dominant Empiricism, Residual Cartesianism, and Emergent Positivism on the Formation of the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth-Century British Gothic Novels (2022) (Internal Examiner, PhD proposal; University of Tehran)
- The Fellowship of Light with Darkness: American Secularism and the Function of Gothicism in The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter (2021) (Advisor, MA thesis; University of Tehran)
- Shakespeare on the Canadian Stage: A Study of Adaptations in Djanet Sears’s Harlem Duet and Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (2021) (Advisor, MA thesis; University of Tehran)
- Resentment and Contentment: A Postcolonial Reading of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale as Neo-Slave Narratives (2021) (Advisor, MA thesis; University of Tehran)
- From Aestheticised Death to the Revival of Ophelia; a Bronfenian Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Klein’s Ophelia
(2021) (Internal Examiner, MA thesis; University of Tehran) - Phantasmatic Self-Preservation: A Psychosocial Study of Suicidal Doppelgangers in Ford Madox Ford’s The Rash Act and Paul Auster’s The Locked Room (2019) (Advisor, MA Thesis; University of Tehran)
- Rethinking the Irish Identity: Chronotopic Politics of Liminality in Selected Poems of Seamus Heaney, Medbh McGuckian, and Paul Muldoon (2019) (Advisor, MA Thesis; University of Tehran)
- Liturgy of the Mask: Creating and Performing Sankofa in Post-Colonial Ghanaian Theatre
(2015) (Supervisor, PhD Dissertation; University of Canterbury) - Modern Life Terror as Dramatic Expression in Selected Plays of Sean O’Casey, Caryl Churchill, and Martin McDonagh
(2019) (External Examiner, PhD proposal; University of Tehran) - A Critical Study of Derridaean Reading of Abrahamic Eschatology in Arthur Clarke’s Selected Works
(2018) (External Examiner, PhD proposal; University of Tehran) - Hysterical Realism in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels: Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day
(2018) (External examiner, PhD dissertation; University of Tehran) - Rendition of CSIs in AVT: Strategies Used in Dubbing and Subtitling of Feature Films in Iran
(2018) (External examiner, MA thesis; University of Tehran) - Historical Vision, Social Critique, and Jewish American Literary Tradition: A Cultural Materialist Reading of E. L. Doctorow’s Fiction (2018) (External examiner, PhD dissertation; University of Tehran)
- Constructive Imperialism and Britain’s Imperial Destiny
(2018) (External examiner, PhD proposal; University of Tehran) - Transparent Orientalism: A study of J. M. Coetzee’s Selected Novels
(2018) (External Examiner, PhD proposal; University of Tehran) - The Artistic Breach of the “Post-Ideological” Consensus: Contemporary British Political Drama
(2017) (External examiner, PhD dissertation; University of Tehran) - Manifest Destiny and American Identity in Selected Novels of Cormac McCarthy: A Contrapuntal Reading
(2017) (External Examiner, PhD proposal; University of Tehran) - A Lacanian Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and King Lear
(2017) (External examiner, MA thesis; University of Tehran)
Memberships
♦ Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (CWWA), 2021
♦ Iranian World Studies Association (IWSA), 2017
♦ Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA), 2016
♦ Modern Language Association (MLA), 2015
♦ Iran-New Zealand Friendship Association (INZFA), 2015
♦ Association for Iranian Studies (AIS), 2011
♦ Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association (ANZASA), 2011
♦ International American Studies Association (IASA), 2011
♦ New Zealand Literary Translators (NZLT), 2011
♦ New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters (NZSTI), 2010
Awards
• Young Assistant Professors Award (Dr. Kazemi Ashtiani Award), Iran’s National Elites Foundation (2023)
• Iran’s National Elites Foundation (2016)
• American Studies Award, University of Canterbury (2013 )
• Doctoral Scholarship, Washington State University (2011)
• International Doctoral Scholarship, University of Canterbury (2011)