Nasrin Rahimieh Nasrin Rahimieh is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine .Education Rahimieh went to University of Alberta and earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1988. Rahimieh was interested in researching areas such as: Iranian Cinema , Iranian Diaspora, Women's Writing and Modern Persian Literature.Career After Rahimeh immigrated to Canada , she began her career as professor in Alberta She is a past-President of the International Society for Iranian Studies , Middle East Studies Association of North America , and Canadian Comparative Literature AssociationWorks Forugh Farrokhzad: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry, co-edited with Dominic Parzviz Brookshaw, London: I B Tauris , 2010, 236 pp Co-editor, special issue of Radical History Review , The Iranian Revolution Turns Thirty, 105, 187 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, 208 pp , 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 ;Articles and Chapters in Books“Reflections of the Cold War in Modern Persian Literature , 1945-1979,” in Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. Andrew Hammond , New York: Routledge, 2012, 87-99. “Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature,” in A Companion to Comparative Literature, eds. Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 296-311. “Capturing the Abject of the Nation in The House is Black,” in Forugh Farrokhzad , Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry, eds. Dominic P. Brookshaw and N Rahimieh, London: I B Tauris, 2010, 125-137. “Divorce Seen through Women's Cinematic Lens,” Iranian Studies 42:1 : 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 : 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 : 147-63. “Capturing Cultural Transformation on Film: Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence,” Edebiyat 12 : 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 : 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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