Zakarya Bezdoode

Education

BSc. in English Language and Literature , University of Kurdistan , Iran (1999 - 2003)
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PhD. in English Language and Literature , Shahid Beheshti University , Iran (2007 - 2012)
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MSc. in English Language and Literature , University of Tehran , Iran (2003 - 2005)
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Courses

Bachelor Of Science

Greek and Roman Mythology

Laboratory II

History of Literary Criticism

A Survey of English Literature II

18th and 19th Century Novel

A Survey of English Literature I

Principles of Fiction

Essay Writing

20th Century Novel

Literary Prose

Short Story

An Introduction to Literature I

Contemporary Literature

Master Of Science

Contemporary Poetry

Short Story

English for the Students of Persian Literature

Novel

World Drama

Literary Criticism

Renaissance Literature

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Research activities

Journal Papers

Kurdish women “bargaining with patriarchy:” The subversive woman in Ata Nahai's fiction Zakarya Bezdoode (2024)

“In the dead of night, a cry” by Ata Nahai Zakarya Bezdoode (2024)

Body Language and Its Implications in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Fiction: A Discursive Reading Baran Fakhr Sheikholeslami, Zakarya Bezdoode (2023)

Sayyed Qadir Hedayati Bardinah Zakarya Bezdoode (2022)

Food, Eating, and Narrativization of Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle Zakarya Bezdoode, Sarisa Rahimi (2022)

Bringing Light to the Situation of Kurdish Women: Chinur Sa’idi’s Hobbies of Mr. Like-a-Man Zakarya Bezdoode (2022)

The Levinasian Responsible Subject's Breaching the Face's Command: Inversion of the Master-Slave Relationship in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy Zakarya Bezdoode, Negar Monfared Saeed (2021)

Heroism in the Age of Consumerism: The Emergence of a Moral Don Quixote in John Updike’s “A & P” Zakarya Bezdoode, Eshaq Bezdoode (2020)

Wordsworth and Traherne: Metaphysical or Romantic Somayeh ghorbani, Zakarya Bezdoode (2020)

Kurdish subjectivity: Liminal Kurd characters stymied in harsh liminal contexts in Sherzad Hassan’s short fiction Zakarya Bezdoode, Golchin Amani (2020)

Author-Function and Modes of Writing in Narration: Reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Julian Barnes’ The Noise of Time Payam Babaie, Zakarya Bezdoode (2019)

André Brink’s Rumors of Rain: An Intersection of Entangled Liminal Beings Golchin Amani, Zakarya Bezdoode (2018)

Self-Government in One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Contributing Factor in Originating Dominant, Residual, and Emergent Perspectives Golchin Amani, Zakarya Bezdoode (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)

A De Manian (mis)Reading of Shakespeare's Procreation Sonnets Zakarya Bezdoode (2014)

Conference Papers

Amorphousness of Kurdish Novel Form: The (Im)possibility of a Poetics of Kurdish Novel Zakarya Bezdoode (2017)

Narrative as a Form of Remembrance and Identification with Dementia in Lisa Geneva's Still Alice Samane Zahedipour, Zakarya Bezdoode (2017)

Roberto Benigni’s Story of Life is Beautiful and The Importance of Telling Lies to Children Zakarya Bezdoode (2016)

Levinas's Messianic Apocalypse vs. Margaret Atwood's Catastrophic Apocalypse Negar Monfared Saeed, Zakarya Bezdoode (2016)

Haiku as a Means of Narration in Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North Eshaq Bezdoode, Zakarya Bezdoode (2016)

Poetry or Pictures: The Poetic and the Metaphoric in Abbas Kiarostami's Films Zakarya Bezdoode (2016)

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Individual Agency and Structural Changes Golchin Amani, Zakarya Bezdoode (2016)

André Brink’s An Act of Terror: A Liminal Era Abounded with Liminal Beings Golchin Amani, Zakarya Bezdoode (2015)

Failure of Storytelling in Education and Its Effects on the Culture Zakarya Bezdoode (2015)

Iranian Hamlet: Iranian Cultural Elements in Mohammad Charmsheer's Adaptation of Hamlet Zakarya Bezdoode (2014)

Anthony Smith’s Ethno-Genealogical Model of Nation and Its Uses in Literary Studies Zakarya Bezdoode (2013)

Speech

A Semiology of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" and Titan's Painting Zakarya Bezdoode (2014)

Lack of Storytelling in Contemporary Education Zakarya Bezdoode (2014)

Alice Munro's Art of Short Story Writing Zakarya Bezdoode (2013)

Semiotic Chora and Shakespeare: A Reading of the Sonnets Based on Kristeva's Theories Zakarya Bezdoode (2013)

Critique of Cartesian Philosophy in Samuel Beckett's Endgame Zakarya Bezdoode (2008)

Narrative: Definitions and Structure Zakarya Bezdoode (2007)

Narrative Complexities in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Zakarya Bezdoode (2005)

Theses

Mechanisms of Externalizing the Problem in Saul Bellow’s Fiction: A Therapeutic Perspective Amirhossein Mohammadi, Zakarya Bezdoode (2023)

Anxiety and Social Insecurity in the Canadian Collective Unconscious: A Survey of Canadian Post-apocalyptic Novels Sahere Shokri, Zakarya Bezdoode (2023)

Body and Mechanisms of Pain in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Fiction Baran Fakhr Sheikholeslami, Zakarya Bezdoode (2023)

The Mythological Image of Contemporary Woman in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Blind Assassin Sarah Badakhshan, Zakarya Bezdoode, Vali Gholami (2022)

An Undecidable Supplement and Différance in Lisa Unger’s In the Blood and Crazy Love You Jalil Ramezani, Somayeh ghorbani, Zakarya Bezdoode (2021)

The Connotative Function of Nihilism in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry: An Investigation of Empty Space as Active Nihilism Azad Kazemi, Zakarya Bezdoode, Vali Gholami (2021)

Identity Making and Therapeutic Effects of Narrative in Andre Brink’s Selected Novels Mojgan Sazvar, Zakarya Bezdoode (2020)

Nutrition and the Narrativization of Identity in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle Sarisa Rahimi, Zakarya Bezdoode (2019)

Critical Utopia: Indirect Political Authority in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed Narges Khaledian, Zakarya Bezdoode (2019)

Discursive-Analytic Reading of Toni Morrison’s Selected Novels: Jazz (1992), Love (2003), A Mercy (2008) and Home (2012) Sirvan Mohamadnezhad, Erfan Rajabi, Zakarya Bezdoode (2019)

Cultural and Social Effects of Deformity in Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and Change Me into Zeus's Daughter by Barbara Robinette Moss Parisa Hedayati, Zakarya Bezdoode, Vali Gholami (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)

Investigating Violence, Desire, and Fantasy in Hubert Selby Jr.’s Works: A Critical Reading of Requiem for a Dream and The Demon Neda Basharati Rad, Bakhtiar Sadjadi, Zakarya Bezdoode (2018)

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)

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)

The Narrow Road to War or Peace: Richard Flanagan's Dual Use of Haiku and Narration in The Narrow Road to the Deep North Eshaq Bezdoode, Zakarya Bezdoode, Vali Gholami (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)

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

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

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

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Research interests

Cultural Studies and Literature
Narrative Studies and History in Contemporary Fiction in English
Contemporary Fiction in English

Name: Nasim Fallahi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

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Name: Sahereh Shokri

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: Anxiety and Social Insecurity in the Canadian Collective Unconscious: A Survey of Selected Canadian Post-Apocalyptic Novels
Name: Baran Fakhr Sheikholeslami

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: Body and Mechanisms of Pain in Joyce Carol Oates's Short Fiction
Name: Amir Hussein Muhammadi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

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Name: Azad Kazemi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: The Connotative Function of Nihilism in Seamus Heaney: An Investigation of Empty Space as Active Nihilism
Name: Mahshid Fallahi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: Existentialist Carver: The Problematics of Miscommunication in Raymond Carver's Short Fiction
Name: Sarah Badakhshan

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: The Mythological Image of Contemporary Woman in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and the Blind Assassin
Name: Mozhgan Sazvar

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Literature

Thesis: Identity Making and Therapeutic Effects of Narrative in Andre Brink's Selected Novels
Name: Maryam Sabzevari

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Literature

Thesis: Investigating the Dehistoricizing Trend of Postmodernism and the Necessity of Cognitive Mapping in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
Name: Narges Khaledian

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Literature

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Name: Ehsan Barati

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Literature

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Name: Asra Toheed

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Literature

Thesis: Nadine Gordimer through Supranationalism: A Shift from Ethno-Symbolism to Poly-Ethnicity
Name: Sarisa Rahimi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Literature

Thesis: Nutrition and the Narritivization of Identity in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle
Name: Masoomeh Shirvani

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: Medical Humanities: Treatment of Deformity in Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult and Staying Fat for Sara Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Name: Eshaq Bezdoodeh

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: The Narrow Road to War or Peace: Richard Flanagan's Dual Use of Haiku and Narration in The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Name: Somayeh Ahmadi

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: Postmodern Theory of Literary Historiography: Fictionalization of History in Hilary mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Name: Negar Monfared Saeed

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: Levinas’s Post-Structural Subjectivity and Humanism of the Other in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
Name: Golchin Amani

AcademicLevel: Master

Field: English Language and Literature

Thesis: Liminality and Ethnicities in André Brink's Novels

Vice Chancellor for Research, Faculty of Language and Literature (1399 - present)
Member of the Department of Kurdish Language and Literature (1397 - present)
Head of the Department of English and Linguistics (1395 - 1398)

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