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Associate Professor
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies
Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program
Assistant Teaching Professor
Latest News
- Aria Fani Awarded the MLA Roth Translation Award for 2025 (December 30, 2025)
- Second Cycle of Persian Literature Residency Concludes with Vibrant
Community Events (November 17, 2025) - New Publication Highlights Iranian Poetry in Translation (May 19, 2025)
- MELC to Host Second Iraj Khademi Residency November 2025 (April 23, 2025)
- From the Chair (2025) (February 21, 2025)
Related Research
- Shape of Extinction: Poems by Bijan Jalali. Translated by Adeeba Shahid Talukder and Aria Fani. Toronto: Asemana Books, 2025.
- Aria Fani, Kevin L. Schwartz, Samuel Hodgkin, "Pathways to Persotopias," PMLA 139.9 (2024): 299-306.
- 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
- Monfaredi, E. (2022). Exiting a Storytelling Sequence in Persian Language Classrooms. In A. Filipi, B.T. Ta, & M. Theobald (Eds), Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts (pp. 261-282). Springer.
- Monfaredi, E. (2022). Student-initiated Storytelling in Classroom Interaction. Classroom Discourse, 1-29.
- 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.
- Kasper, G., & Monfaredi, E. (2021). Storytelling as instructional practice in Persian language classrooms. In J. Wong & H. Z. Waring (Eds.), Storytelling in multilingual interaction: A conversation analysis perspective (pp. 119–161). Routledge.
- “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.