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Claudia Yaghoobi
PhD
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Scholarly Interests
– Medieval Persian Sufi Poetry
– The concept of pain in Medieval poetry
– Unconventional Love in Medieval poetry
– The concept of beauty in Medieval poetry
– The construction of masculinity and Femininity in poetry
– Postmedievalism
– Modern Middle Eastern women’s literature
– Iranian woman question
– gender and sexuality studies
– Contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern Fiction
– Literary Diaspora and the exiled
– Iranian Cinema
– Medieval English Mystical Literature
– The Theater of the Absurd
Current Position
Associate Professor of Persian Studies, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill