Research Projects
Publications
Book
Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs From Across the Diaspora, in progress.
Scholarly Article
Solicited Articles
Book Review of Hamid Dabashi's Persophilia in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.
“Traveling Between Iranian and American Identities.” Center for the Study of Women Newsletter, March 2007
Invited Talks and Guest Lectures
“Exporting Islamophobia through the “Veiled best-seller:” The Rise and Fall of Muslim women’s post-9/11 memoirs.” Invited panelist, American Comparative Literary Association Conference, Seattle, March 2015
“Exploring Feminist Landscapes through World Literature.” Keynote Speaker, Colloque Internationale, University of Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France, December 2011
“Teaching Diversity through Ethnic-American literature,” Guest Speaker, ECHO Conference on Educational Diversity, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 2011
Guest Lecturer for Arab Women Writers with Dr. Hanan Elsayed, Occidental College: The Works of Mohja Kahf, Spring 2011
“Marketing ‘Honor Killing’ Memoirs: Confronting ‘Western’ Depictions of Muslim Women." Plenary Speaker, Conference on Gender and Power in the Muslim World, Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, New York, March 2009
Guest Lecturer for 2CW with Dr. Magdalena Edwards: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (in French and English), Spring 2009
Guest Lecturer for 2CW with Dr. Magdalena Edwards: The Rubaiyat of Omaar Khayyam (in both Persian and English), Fall 2008
Guest Lecturer for 2CW with Dr. Kathleen Komar: The Doctor’s Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi, Fall 2006
Conference Presentations
“‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out”: Unveiling Feminist Frameworks in the Classroom,”
National Women's Studies Association Conference: Feminist Transgressions, San Juan, PR, November 2014
“Arab American Autobiofiction: Writing the Self in Mohja Kahf’s Poetry and Fiction,” International Association for Biography and Autobiography (IABA), Banff, Canada, May2014
“Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women’s Memoirs from Across the Diaspora,” ACLA, New York City, March 2014
"The Cross-Cultural Narrative Exchange: Bridging Online Global Learning Communities," HUIC, Honolulu, June 2013
“Writing Against the ‘Scarf Affair’: Recuperating the Veil and Dislocating Muslim Women’s Victimhood in Mohja Kahf’s Fiction,” Presenter, Modern Language Association, Boston, January 2013
“Mosaics of Identity: Exploring Muslim Americans in Mohja Kahf’s Post-9/11 Fiction,” Presenter, Modern Language Association, Boston, January 2013
“Representations of the Self: Dialoguing Middle Eastern Women Writers.” Seminar Organizer, Moderator and Presenter, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 2011
“Muslim American Autobiofiction: Writing the Self in Mohja Kahf’s Poetry.” Presenter, Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA., January 2011
“The Mohajer’s Memoir: Fictional Autobiography and Autobiofiction in Arab American Literature.” Presenter, Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Diego, CA, November 2010
“What’s So Funny?: Investigating Humor in the Memoirs of Firoozeh Dumas and Marjane Satrapi” Conference Organizer and Presenter, Eighth Biennial Conference, International Society of Iranian Studies, Santa Monica, CA., May 2010
“The Womb of the Universe: Figuring Woman as the Nation in Goli Taraghi’s Khanehi dar Aseman.”Seventh Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, Toronto, Canada, August 2008
“Repackaging Memoirs: The Graphic as Testimonial in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.” American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, April 24-27, 2008
“Packaging Identities: ‘Exotisizing’ Iranian Women Writers in the Diaspora.” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, November 2007.
“Exiled Identity: Women Writers Renegotiating Iranian and American Identities.” Thinking Gender Conference, Los Angeles, UCLA, February 2007
“Iranian Women Writing in Exile.” Sixth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, August 2006
