Department of English

Nima Naghibi
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Alberta

Office: Jorgenson 1018
Phone: 416-979-5000 ext 2140
E-mail: nnaghibi@ryerson.ca

Dr. Nima Naghibi is an Associate Professor of English at Ryerson University. She is the author of Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran (Minnesota Press, 2007). Her current project is on diasporic Iranian women's autobiographical expression in memoirs and documentary film.  This project, which draws on the intersecting fields of autobiography, diaspora, memory, nostalgia, and trauma theory, focuses on the notable surge of autobiographical forms produced by Iranian women, and proposes that the trauma of the 1979 Iranian Revolution has created new possibilities for Iranian women's subjectivities. 

Areas:  Postcolonial Literatures and Theory; Autobiography Studies; Trauma Theory; Feminist Studies. 

Selected Publications:

• Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran. University of Minnesota  Press, 2007.
  
• Revolution, Trauma, and Memory in Iranian Women's Autobiographies." Radical History Review.  Volume 2009.  Issue 105.  Fall 2009.
• Seeing 'Beneath the Veil': Saira Shah and the Problems of Documentary." History, Film, and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production. Eds. Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill and Thomas Lahusen. Routledge, 2007.

• Co-authored with Andrew O'Malley.  "Estranging the Familiar: 'East' and 'West' in Satrapi's Persepolis." English Studies in Canada. 31.2/3. (June/September 2005): 1-27.
• Bad Feminist or Bad-Hejabi? Moving Outside the Hejab debate." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 1:4 1999: 555-571.
• Five Minutes of Silence: Voices of Iranian Feminists in the post-revolutionary age." Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature.  Ed. Rowland Smith. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2000.