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Atefeh Akbari

Term Assistant Professor of English

Department

English, First Year Foundation

Atefeh Akbari specializes in postcolonial literature with a comparatist focus. Her teaching and research interests include twentieth century anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature, twentieth century Iranian literature (up until the 1979 Revolution) and film, graphic novels, and world literature and translation studies. Her current book project is a cross-cultural comparison of Iranian and Caribbean fiction and poetry from the 1960s through the 1980s. An article from this project, titled ““Where Is the Friend’s Home?”: New World Landscapes in Sohrab Sepehri’s Poetic Geography,” has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (September 2019).

FYSB BC1724 First-Year Seminar: Postcolonial Comics

ENGL BC3159 The English Colloquium (Renaissance)

ENGL BC3193 Critical Writing

ENGL BC3205 World Literature Revisited I 

ENGL BC3206 World Literature Revisited II 

ENGL BC3207 The "Global" Novel

Ph.D, Columbia University (2019)

M.A., University of Tehran (2010) 

B.A., University of Tehran (2006)