Fatemeh Keshavarz
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Chair, Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
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Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Persian); Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies; Comparative Literature
Fatemeh Keshavarz
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Chair, Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
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Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Persian); Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies; Comparative Literature Office Contact Information
Research specialization
Islamic mysticism; Persian poetry; translation theory; women's studies
Publications
Books
Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks). Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007. A blend of personal memoir and literary analysis intended to humanize Iran, a country masked from Western readership by political conflic, that critiques "New Orientalist narratives" which present a lopsided and exaggerated view of Eastern cultures, a trend best exemplified in the national best-seller Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetics of Sacred Making in Twentieth-Century Iran. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2006. A study of reconfigurations of the concept of the sacred as reflected in modern Persian poetry.