Please join us Thursday, October 18 at 6 p.m. in Humanities 250 on CU-Boulder campus for an exciting lecture by Dr. Nasrin Rahimieh.
Dr. Rahimieh is a Professor of Comparative Literature and the Maseeh Chair and Director of Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. Â In this talk, Dr. Rahimieh will discuss recent developments in Iranian women's writing, situating them in the history of modern Persian prose and poetry. Â The burgeoning of women's writing in the wake of the 1979 revolution might at first appear as a paradox. Â But this most recent chapter of Persian literary history and womens' role in it is a consequence of Iranian discourses of modernity and the debates about women's education and their place within the fabric of the nation. Â Drawing on literary works published in the late two decades, Dr. Rahimieh will demonstrate how a thematic focus on domesticity in novels and short stories lays bare the gendered construction of modern Iran.