BA, San Diego State University (1989)
MA, University of California at San Deigo (1992)
Ph.D., University of Rochester (2001)

Ethnic Studies; Immigration and diaspora; American Realism; Modern Iranian Literature; Iranian Film

Books:

• The Fabric of American Literary Realism, McFarland Press, 2009
• work in progress: The Iranian Condition: Illness as Metaphor in Moodern Iranian Literature and Film

Articles

• "Fake Farsi: Formulaic Flexibility in Iranian American Women's Memoirs, MELUS 33.2 (Summer, 2008)
• "Resistance, Accommodation, or Haggling: Postcolonial Theory and International Business Communication," JAC, 25.3 (2005).
• "Translating the Self: Language and Identity in Iranian-Ameircan Women\'s Memoirs," Iranian Studies, 39:4 (2006).
• "The Heavy Garments of the Past: Mary and Frieda Antin in The Promised Land," College Literature 32:4 (2005) 29-49.
• Co-Authored with Grant Cos: "The Immigrant\'s Dream and the Audacity of Hope:The 2004 Convention Addresses of Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger," American Behavioral Scientist, 49:3 (2005): 454-465.
• "Pride Lands: The Lion King, Proposition 187, and White Resentment," Arizona Quarterly, 57:3 (2001): 121-152.

Reviews

• "Hybrid Haggling: Hamid Naficy's The Making of Exile Cultures," Afterimage, 21:8 (1994): 15
• "Eaststruck: Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson\'s Foucault and the Iranian Revolution in Context," Human Studies, 30:2 (2007) 157-166
• "A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans. Edited by Persis M. Karim and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami. New York: George Braziller, 1999. and Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora. Edited by Persis M. Karim. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas, 2006." MELUS 33:2 (2008) 177-81.

"all our problems spring from our failure to use plain, clean-cut language."

Albert Camus, THE PLAGUE

(Stuart Gilbert, trans. Modern Library edition, 1948, p. 230)