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Latest News
- Farhat G. Ziadeh Distinguished Lectures 2026 Presents Shawkat Toorawa (Yale University) (May 4, 2026)
- Aria Fani Awarded the MLA Roth Translation Award for 2025 (December 30, 2025)
- Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major (April 10, 2024)
- A Novel Prize for Persian Translation (August 21, 2023)
- Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize (June 5, 2023)
Related Research
- Shape of Extinction: Poems by Bijan Jalali. Translated by Adeeba Shahid Talukder and Aria Fani. Toronto: Asemana Books, 2025.
- "An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire," co-written with Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, in Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar edited by Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycıoğlu (Boston: Academic Studies Press 2023)
- 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, "The Allure of Untranslatability: Shafi'i-Kadkani and (Not) Translating Persian Poetry.” Iranian Studies, 54.1-2 (2021): 95-125.
- Naomi Sokoloff, "What Poets Write About When They Write About Hebrew" in the Jewish Book Council's "Paper Brigade Daily"
- Aria Fani, "What Is Asylum? Translation, Trauma, and Institutional Visibility.” In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. Edited by Rebecca Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian, Routledge, 2020, pp. 397-407.
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (University of Washington Press, 2018) - Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.
- Aria Fani and John L. Hayes, "Basmala: Translating an Iconic Phrase.” TRANS: Revista de Traductología, 21, 2017, pp. 213-219
- Aria Fani, "A Silent Conversation with Literary History: Re- theorizing Modernism in the Poetry of Bizhan Jalāli," Iranian Studies, 50:4, 2017, pp. 523-552,
- Samad Alavi, "Living in Lyric: The Task of Translating a Modernist Ghazal" in Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks, ed. Kamran Talattof, Routledge, 2015.