Speaker:Professor Farzaneh Milani, University of Virginia
Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in Comparative Literature in 1979 at UCLA. Her dissertation, “Forugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective” was a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet. Past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of All University Teaching Award in 1998 and nominated for Virginia Faculty of the Year in 1999. She is the author of "Veils and Words: The Emerging Voice of Iranian Women Writers," and "A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani" (with Kaveh Safa). She has published over 100 articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwards in Persian and in English. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ms. Magazine, the Readers Digest, USA Today, and N.P.R.’s All Things Considered. She has presented more than 150 lectures nationally and internationally. Former Director of Studies in Women and Gender and Professor of Persian Literature and Women Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Milani was a Carnegie Fellow, 2006-2007.
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