Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
1871 West Mall
Department of Asian Studies
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
BC
V6T 1Z2
Canada
ABOUT
I am a literary and cultural critic and historian, with a special focus on Persian literature and the Iranian culture and cinema, within my broader interests in comparative and world literature. Before joining the Department of Asian Studies at UBC in 2018, I was an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto (2017-2018). Website: https://asia.ubc.ca/persons/mostafa-abedinifard
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Comparative
Cinema/Film
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Ethnic Groups
Middle East/Near East Studies
Translation
Persian
Queer/LGBT Studies
Historiography
19th-21st Centuries
Islamic Studies
Folklore/Folklife
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Islamic World
Specialties
Gender And Sexuality; Men And Masculinities
Cultural Historiography
Critical And Literary Theory
Languages
Persian (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2015
| Comparative Literature
| University of Alberta
MA
| 2005
| English
| Allameh Tabatabaee University
BA
| 1997
| English
| Allameh Tabatabaee University
Abstracts
Hegemonic Masculinity and the Policing of Heterosexuality: Gender and Transgender in Two Iranian Films--Be Like Others and Facing Mirrors
Satiric modernity: Iranians' self-conscious affects and the birth of modern Persian comedy ca. 1871-1908
Masculinist Gheyrat: The Missing Link in Iranian Transgender Studies
