Kamran Rastegar

Department of International Cultural Studies Olin Center, Tufts University,Medford, MA

PhD (with distinction), Columbia University, NY, NY (2005). Double-major in Comparative Literature and Society, and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures. Thesis: Literary Modernity Before Novel and Nation: Transaction and Circulation between Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian and English Literatures. (Hamid Dabashi, advisor)
MPhil, Columbia University, NY, NY (2003). Double-major in Comparative Literature and Society, and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.
MA, Columbia University, NY, NY (2001). In Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.
BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (1992). Musicology and Middle Eastern Studies.

Tufts University, Medford, MA. Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Arabic, Director of the Arabic Program. Department of International Cultural Studies. (9/2009-present). Executive Committees: International Literary and Visual Studies Program, Colonialism Studies Program, Middle Eastern Studies Program, International Relations Program.
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Arabic and Persian. School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. (9/2005-9/2009), Head of Department, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (9/2008-9/2009), Director of Studies. (9/2005-9/2009)
Brown University, Providence, RI. Visiting Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature. (9/2004-9/2005)

American University of Beirut , Beirut, Lebanon. Visiting Associate, Department of English (9/2011-6/2012).

Surviving Images: War, Cinema and Cultural Memory in the Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press, March 2015.
Literary Modernity Between Europe and the Middle East: Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian and English Literatures. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Editor of special issue: “Authoring the Nahda: Writing the Arabic Nineteenth Century” Middle Eastern Literatures, 16:3, 2013.

“‘Sawwaru Waynkum?’ Human Rights, and Perpetrator Traumas in Waltz with Bashir” College Literatures: a Journal of Critical Literary Studies. 40:3, Summer 2013. 60-80.
“Literary Modernity Between Arabic and Persian Prose: Jurji Zaydan’s Riwayat in Persian Translation,” Comparative Critical Studies, Vol. 4:2, 2007. 359-378.
“The Unintended Gift: The Adventures of Hajji Baba Ispahani as Transactional Text,” Middle Eastern Literatures. Vol. 10:3, 2007. 251-272.
“Trauma and Maturation in Women’s War Narratives: The Eye of the Mirror and Cracking India,” Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, 2:3, 2006. 22-47.
“Literary Transactions in the Changing Value of Alf Layla wa Layla For Modern Readers,” Journal of Arabic Literature, 36:3, 2005. 269-287.

“Balancing Integration and Disintegration: Amir Elsaffar and the Contingent Avant-Garde,” in The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity. Thomas Burkhalter, Kay Dickinson and Benjamin Harbert (eds.), Wesleyan University Press, 2013. 74-89.
“Global Frames on Afghanistan: The Iranian Mediation of Afghanistan in International Art-House Cinema,” in Globalizing Afghanistan, Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building, Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jeffries (eds.). Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 145-164.
“Mashruteh and al-Nahda: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution in the Iranian Diaspora Press of Egypt and in Arab Reformist Periodicals,” in Iran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections. Houchang Chehabi and Vanessa Martin (eds.), IB Tauris, 2010. 357-368.
“The Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors?” in Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy and the Ethics of State-Building, Thiranagama, S. and Kelly, T (eds.), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania University Press, 2010. 188-200.

Comparative literature; modern Arabic and Persian literatures; cultural studies, cinema studies; cultural history; postcolonial theory.

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