Fatemeh Keshavarz

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Fatemeh Keshavarz (born in Shiraz) is an Iranian writer, literary figure and University professor.

She holds a B.A. degree in Persian Language and Literature from Shiraz University, and a Masters and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.

Fatemeh Keshavarz has taught at Washington University since 1990. She has served as Director of the Graduate Program in Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations, and President of the Association of Women Faculty. She currently chairs the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages & Literatures.

Among Keshavarz's works is her book Jasmines and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran. The book offers ideas in contrast to Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran that explores the relationship between literature and society in postrevolutionary Iran. Literature professor Keshavarz believes that Nafisi's book presents "many damaging misrepresentations" of Iran and its people, relying more on stereotype and easy comparison than on an accurate portrayal of the country and its people.

[edit] Books

Reading Mystical Lyric: the Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi
Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetic Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran
Jasmines and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran