Mostafa Abedinifard

Research Area

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About

About Mostafa: : Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard is an Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly publications. More information on Dr. Abedinifard’s research projects and publications can be accessed through his website

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Areas of Specialty:

Modern Persian literature and culture; Iranian cinema; comparative literary and cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; humour studies

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Research

Research Interests in Iranian and Persianate Studies

• diaspora literatures and cultures
• fiction, nonfiction, folk and popular culture
• (global South) literary theory; literary histories; history of ideas & emotions
• gender & sexuality; men and masculinities; critical diversity studies
• comparative literary and cultural studies; literature as world literature

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Current Areas of Concentration

masculinity in modern Iranian texts 

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Teaching

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