• PHD Comparative Literature, The University of California at Santa Barbara 2013
World Area Of Focus:
• Middle East 100%
Languages:
• Arabic, Modern Standard (elementary proficiency) • Armenian (native/bilingual proficiency) • Persian (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian Studies at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She teaches Middle Eastern and Persian literature, and gender and sexuality studies. Her research concerns the literature of the Middle East with a special focus on Persian literature. Within Persian literature and culture, her focus is on the members of social, sexual, and religious marginalized, peripheral, and minority populations.
Relevant Experience:
• 2013-2016 Assistant Professor of International Literature, Georgia College and State University
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ASIA 124 Iranian Post-1979 Cinema • ASIA 258 Iranian Prison Literature • ASIA 390 Middle Eastern Women Writers • ASIA 490 Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern Literature • ASIA 89 FYS-Wars and Veterans: Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan • PRSN 305 Advanced Persian Language
Recent Publications:
• 2018 “Pirzad’s Diasporic Transnational Subjects in ‘A Day Before Easter’.” International Journal of Persian Literature, Issue 3 (August 2018).
• 2017 “Mapping Out Socio-Cultural Decadence on the Female Body: Sadeq Chubak’s Gowhar in Sange-e Sabur.” Frontier: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Mapping Gendered Violence Special Issue (forthcoming 2017).
• 2017 Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism. Comparative Cultural Studies Series. Purdue: Purdue University Press, 2017.
• 2016 “Socially Peripheral, Symbolically Central: Sima in Behrouz Afkhami’s Shokaran.” Asian Cinema Journal, Iranian Female Sexuality Special Issue, Issue 27. 2 (2016): 151-163.
• 2016 “Yusuf’s “Queer” Beauty in Persian Cultural Productions.” The Comparatist, No. 40. 1 (2016): 245-266. https://doic.org/10.1353/com.2016.0014 R
“Yusuf’s “Queer” Beauty in Persian Cultural Productions.” The Comparatist, No. 40. 1 (2016): 245-266. https://doic.org/10.1353/com.2016.0014 R
“Yusuf’s “Queer” Beauty in Persian Cultural Productions.” The Comparatist, No. 40. 1 (2016): 245-266.
• 2014 “Sexual Trauma and Spiritual Experiences: Rabi’a al-‘A’dawiyya and Margery Kempe.” Persian Literary Studies Journal, Issue 3. 4 (2014): 73-92.
• 2014 “Subjectivity in ‘Attar’s Shaykh San’an Story in Conference of the Birds.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, No. 16. 1 (2014): 1-9.
• 2014 “Hamzisti dar Asar-e ‘Attar.” (Co-existence in ‘Attar’s Works) Rahavard Persian/English Journal of Iranian Studies, Issue 105 (2014): 142-152. (in Persian)
• 2012 “Shifting Sexual Ideology and Women’s Responses: Iran Between 1850-2010,” pp. 52-80 in Homa Hoodfar and Anissa Lucas-Helie, eds., Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance. London: Zed Books, 2012.
• 2012 “Against the Current: Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s Diverse Voices.” Persian Literary Studies Journal, Issue 1. 1 (2012), 87-109.
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