Farzad Boobani

EDUCATION

PhD in English Literature, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany (2013)

TEACHING

Literature and culture of the English-speaking world before 1900

Literature and culture of the English-speaking world after 1900

English literature and culture in teacher education

Research theories and methods

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Literary historiography

Literary modernism

Postcolonial literature and theory

World literature

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Orientalist Imaginings: Representations of Persia in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 2013. x+218 pp.

Articles and Book Chapters

- "Two Tales of a City: London in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and Samuel Johnson's London." Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies (University of Kurdistan) 1/1. 2019. pp. 5-19.

- "Revisiting the Canon: Thomas Moore, Irish Nationalism and the Romantic Canon." In: Corinna Dziudzia et al. (eds.). Im Archiv der vergessenen Bücher. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 2018. pp. 165-182.

- "James Morier, Hajji Baba and Colonialist Literature." Pazhuhesh: Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Languages (University of Tehran) 43. 2008. pp. 5-27. [Article in Persian]

- "One Hundred Years of Children's Literature in Iran." In: Laura Atkins et al. (eds.). An Invitation to Explore: New International Perspectives in Children's Literature. Lichfield: Pied Piper Publishing Ltd. 2008. pp. 29-41.

- "The Story of O: An Exponential Analysis of Ophelia's Role in William Shakespeare's Hamlet." Journal of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities (University of Tabriz) 198. 2006. pp. 87-98.

- "The Dialogic Joyce: A Bakhtinian Approach to James Joyce's Ulysses.” Pazhuhesh: Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Languages (University of Tehran) 15. 2003. pp. 19-29. [Article in Persian; Co-author: Prof. Dr. Bahram Meghdadi]

Reviews

- "Re-Orienting the Novel." Rev. of Srinivas Aravamudan. Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2012). In: Kult_online 33. 2012.

- "Post-Colonialism in Theory and Practice." Rev. of Peter Childs, Jean Jacques Weber and Patrick Williams. Post-Colonial Theory and Literatures: African, Caribbean and South Asian. (Trier: WVT, 2006). In: Kult_online 22. 2010.

Conference Papers

- "Representing the Misrepresented: Edward Said's Orientalism and the Politics of Representation." The Ethics and Politics of Representation. University of Bergamo, Italy. October 2011.

- "Two Tales of a City: London in the Works of Ben Jonson and Samuel Johnson." Performaticity: Urban Performances and the Performative City. University of Lisbon, Portugal. June 2011.

- "The Democratic Imagination: Bakhtin, Joyce and the Carnivalesque." The Novel: Democracy's Form? University of Sussex, UK. April 2007.

- "Children's Literature and Polyphonic Potentialities." Child and the Book. University of Newcastle, UK. April 2006.