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Associate Professor
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies
Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program
Latest News
- MELC to Host Second Iraj Khademi Residency November 2025 (April 23, 2025)
- From the Chair (2025) (February 21, 2025)
- “Collaboration was absolutely key to success”: Interview with Dr. Aria Fani, Director of the Persian and Iranian Studies Program (February 18, 2025)
- Iraj Khademi Residency Celebrates the Diverse Geography of Persian Literature (November 18, 2024)
- Book Launch | Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism | Prof. Aria Fani in conversation with Anna Learn (October 21, 2024)
Related Research
- Shape of Extinction: Poems by Bijan Jalali. Translated by Adeeba Shahid Talukder and Aria Fani. Toronto: Asemana Books, 2025.
- آریا فانی، خواندن فراسوی مرزها: افغان ها، ایرانی ها و ملی گرایی ادبی، ترجمه علی قاسمی منفرد، نشر شیرازه
- Aria Fani, Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024.
- The Shadow Texts of National History: Poetic Participation in Iran and Afghanistan, Philological Encounters
- Aria Fani, “What Does Translation Mean in the Age of Colonial Modernity?” In The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation, edited by Michelle Quay, Patricia Higgins, and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (2022), pp. 286-298.
- Aria Fani and Schwartz, KL. Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century (Special issue), Iranian Studies 55.3 (2022): 603-790.
- “What Is Literature? The Rise of a Global Literary Discourse” (Mandarin Chinese title: 文学是什么?一种全球性文学话语的兴起), Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (2021): 42-49.
- Aria Fani, "Iran’s Literary Becoming: Zokaʾ ol-Molk Forughi and the Literary History That Wasn’t," Iran Namag 5.3 (2020), pp. 114-144.
- Alavi, Samad. "Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity." Iranian Studies 49, no. 6 (November 2016): 1099-1103.
- Widlake, Sean, "Mohammad Mosaddeq and the Referendum: Iran and the Exception in the Cold War" (2015). Thesis.