Author: Claudia Yaghoobi

Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute assistant professor in Persian studies and Persian coordinator in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She holds a Ph D in comparative literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research subjects include Persian literature, Iranian “woman question, ” minorities in Iran, contemporary Middle Eastern literature, diasporic literature, literary theory, and gender and sexuality studies