Behzad Pourgharib
University of Mazandaran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Dr. Behzad Pourgharib is an Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Mazandaran. His research interests encompass Women Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Ecocriticism, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies. This year, he has authored several articles in the field of women studies, including Precarity and Estrangement: Rethinking Loneliness Through Women’s Diasporic Narratives published by Women’s Studies, and Muslim Women’s Sisterhood and Resistance in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, published by Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. He has also authored Writing through Trauma: The Decolonized Narratives of Jhumpa Lahiri and Bharati Mukherjee, Postcolonial Novels and Critical Insights, and Virginia Woolf and Consciousness. He has also translated Terry Eagleton’s How to Read Literature into Persian.
Dr. Pourgharib’s research has been published in leading international journals, including Journal for Cultural Research, Women’s Studies, KEMANUSIAAN: The Asian Journal of Humanities, Forum for World Literature Studies, Arcadia: International Journal for Literary Studies, GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies, and Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, among others.
He currently serves as Co-Editor of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis).