Literatures of Modernity

Biography:

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

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), and is working on her second monograph with the support of a SSHRC Standard Research Grant.  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. 

Research Interest:

Postcolonial Literatures and Theories; Autobiography Studies; Trauma Theory; Feminist Studies.