Bio: Nasrin Rahimieh
Nasrin Rahimieh is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of
Comparative Literature and English at McMaster University. Her research has
focused on intercultural encounters between Iran and the West, modern
Persian literature, literature of exile and displacement, womenıs writing,
and post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Her publications include Oriental
Responses to the West: Comparative Essays on Muslim Writers from the Middle
East (Brill, 1990) and Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian
Cultural Heritage (Syracuse University Press, 2001). Her reviews and
articles have appeared in Iranian Studies, Comparative Literature Studies,
Iran Nameh, The Middle East Journal, The Comparatist, Thamyris, Edebiyat,
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Canadian Literature, New
Comparison.