Farzad Boobani

EDUCATION

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

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Literary Historiography

Modernism

Postcolonial Studies

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.