Contact
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Tufts University
Medford
MA
02155
United States
ABOUT
Kamran Rastegar is an Professor of Comparative Literature at Tufts University, and the director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, and has held appointments at Brown University and the University of Edinburgh, teaching comparative literature, Arabic and Persian literatures, and postcolonial and world cinema courses. His first monograph, Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe (Routledge, 2007) was the first book-length comparative study of modern Arabic and Persian literatures, and his second monograph, Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East and North Africa was published by Oxford UP (2015).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Cultural Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Cinema/Film
Colonialism
Iranian Studies
Arab Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Iran
Specialties
Comparative Literature
Modern Arabic Literature
Modern Persian Literature
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Persian (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2005
| Comparative Literature and Society/MEALAC
| Columbia University
MA
| 2000
| MEALAC
| Columbia U
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