Cyrus Amiri

Education

PhD. in English Language and Literature (2009 - 2013)
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MSc. in English Language and Literature (2003 - 2006)
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Courses

Bachelor Of Science

Literary Devices

American Literature

Simple English Poetry

Speaking and Listening II

Master Of Science

Critical Reading of Persian Literature

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Research activities

Journal Papers

English letters, Kurdish words: Debunking Orientalist Tropes in Kae Bahar’s Letters from a Kurd Maryam Soltanbead, Somayeh ghorbani, Cyrus Amiri (2018)

Gurani: practical language or Kurdish literary idiom? Behrooz Chaman Ara, Cyrus Amiri (2018)

André Brink’s The Rights of Desire: Modernized Apartheid and the Inaudibility Of Liminal Voices under Repressive Surveillance Golchin Amani, Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Dr. Noon Loves His Wife More Than Mussadiq: A Rememory of Politics and Paternity in Iran in the 1960s Zakarya Bezdoode, Cyrus Amiri (2016)

On the Flying Carpet of Orientalism: Reading Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers Mohammad marandi, Cyrus Amiri (2014)

Formal Problematization of History in Shakespeare’s Richard II Cyrus Amiri (2014)

Conference Papers

Words without Borders: The Politics and Poetics of Born-Translated Kurdish Fiction in English Cyrus Amiri, Somayeh ghorbani (2017)

The Politics of Narrative form in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner Somayeh ghorbani, Cyrus Amiri (2017)

Echoes of the Grave: The Dead Narrator in Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red Eshaq Bezdoode, Cyrus Amiri (2017)

The Stone Woman: Reading Yasmin Crowther’s The Saffron Kitchen Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Women without Men: From Iranian Feminism to Diasporic Iranian Feminism Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Fantasized History: Images of Post-revolutionary Iran in Post-9/11 Literature by Women of the Iranian Diaspora Mohammad marandi, Cyrus Amiri (2013)

Speech

Serving Kurdish at a New York Cafetorium: Peripheral Literatures and the Global Literary Market Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Creative Writing, Creative Life Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Domestic Orientalism and the Question of Rustam Complex Cyrus Amiri (2014)

Books

Iran Behrooz Chaman Ara, Cyrus Amiri (2018)

Theses

The Identity Development of the Protagonist as a Female Emigrant: A Psychological Analysis of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn Niusha Farajmohammadi, Erfan Rajabi, Cyrus Amiri (2023)

Words without Borders: The Politics and Poetics of Born-Translated Anglophone Middle Eastern Novel Somayeh ghorbani, Maryam Soltanbead, Cyrus Amiri (2019)

Deformity of Afrikaners' Identity in Andre Brink Selected Post-Apartheid Novels Mahdiyeh Govah, Zakarya Bezdoode, Cyrus Amiri (2018)

The Politics and Poetics of Iranican Humor in Firoozeh Dumas’ Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without an Accent, Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects and Siamak Baniameri’s The Iranican Dream Pezhman Amiri, Cyrus Amiri, Zakarya Bezdoode (2018)

The Literature of Dystopia: Trauma and the Post-Apocalyptic in Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember Araz Ahmad, Bakhtiar Sadjadi, Cyrus Amiri (2018)

Imagined Histories: Dialectic of the Imagined and the Real in Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers and Equal of the Sun ََAmin Moazami Nia, Cyrus Amiri, Bakhtiar Sadjadi (2018)

Survival and Sanity: A study of Subjection in the Selected Fiction of J. M. Coetzee Hossein Keramatfar, Maryam Soltanbead, Cyrus Amiri (2018)

Unhomeliness, Hybridity and Liminality in the Selected Works of Jhumpa Lahiri: A Postcolonial Reading of The Namesake and The Lowland Elham Arsalani, Bakhtiar Sadjadi, Cyrus Amiri (2017)

Medical Humanities: Treatment of Deformity in Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult and Staying Fat for Sara Byrnes by Chris Crutcher Masomeh Shiravani, Zakarya Bezdoode, Cyrus Amiri (2017)

Lost in Trans-Nation: Liminal Formation of Narrative, Identity and Space in Recent Novels of the Iranian Diaspora Seyed Reza Ebrahimi, Maryam Soltanbead, Cyrus Amiri (2017)

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Radical Cosmopolitanism in J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man and The Childhood of Jesus Farshid Zandi, Cyrus Amiri, Zakarya Bezdoode (2017)

Janus Iranian Style: The Formation of Identity in Tara Bahrampour and Yasmin Crowther Abouzar Moteshakeri, Erfan Rajabi, Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Postmodern Theory of Literary Historiography: Fictionalization of History in Hilary mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies Somaye Ahmadi, Zakarya Bezdoode, Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Levinas’s Post-Structural Subjectivity and Humanism of the Other in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy Negar Monfared Saeed, Zakarya Bezdoode, Cyrus Amiri (2016)

The Narrative of Political Unconscious and Utopia in J. M. Coetzee’s The Time and Life of Michael K and Waiting for the Barbarians Shahab Nadimi, Bakhtiar Sadjadi, Cyrus Amiri (2016)

Liminal Identity in Diasporic Iranian Narratives: The Case of Firoozeh Dumas and Elizabeth Eslami Naser Dowlatyari, Cyrus Amiri, Zakarya Bezdoode (2016)

Scenes from History: Dramatic Emplotment in Howard Barker's Selected Historical Plays Elaheh Heidari, Cyrus Amiri, Zakarya Bezdoode (2016)

Liminality and Ethnicities in André Brink's Novels Golchin Amani, Zakarya Bezdoode, Cyrus Amiri (2015)

Mark Ravenhill’s Selected Plays in the Light of Giddens’ Globalization, Risk, and Uncertainty Zhila Gholami, Bakhtiar Sadjadi, Cyrus Amiri (2015)

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Research interests

Postmodern Literature
Dramatic Literature
Translation Studies
Postcolonial Theories
Diasporic literature
Comparative Literature
World Literature

Deputy Dean of Research (1396 - 1398)

Cyrus Amiri

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