Publications

Book Series Co-Editor
Sex, Marriage and Culture in the Middle East. Co-Editor with Janet Afary. Bloomsbury.

Special Issues, Edited
Iranian Minority Literary Women. In International Journal of Persian Literature. Co-Editor with Nasrin Rahimieh, 2019.

Literary Diasporas of Iran. In Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies. Co-Editor with Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, 2021.

Edited Volume(s)

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The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment. edited Volume. Sex, Marriage and the Family in the Middle East series. London: IB Tauris/Bloomsbury Press, September 21, 2023.

Monograph(s)

Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies: Diaspora and Transnationalism Series. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 335798698_157619726797635_1642173066285676145_n

Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film. Global Middle East Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,  2020.

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Subjectivity in ʿAttar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism. Purdue University Press, Comparative Culture Studies Series, 2017.

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Fardiyat dar ‘Attar (Subjectivity in ʿAttar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism). translated by Arash Khoshsafa. London: Mehri Publication, 2020.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

2025                “Gender, Power, and Sigheh in Cinema of Iran (1990s-).” Cinema Iranica. Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation.

2024                “Love on Hold: Social Distancing and Relationships in the Era of Covid-19 in Iran,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 20. 3: 350-372.

2022                “Iranian Armenian Poetry: Sonia Balassanian Crossing Borders of Consciousness.” Women Poets Iranica. Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation.

2022                “Seyr-e tahavol-e gofteman-e jensiati dar Iran-e modern.” (The Evolution of Gender Discourse in Modern Iran). Freedom of Thought Journal, 11/1: 77-90.

2022                “Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions,” Middle East Critique, 31/1: 81-97.

2021                “Racial Profiling of Armenian Iranians in the U.S.: Omid Fallahazad’s ‘Citizen Vartgez’.” Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies 6/2: 154-172.

2021                Yaghoobi, Claudia, Seyed-Gohrab, Asghar, “Introduction.” Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies, 6/2: 4-12.

2021                “Over 40 Years of Resisting the Compulsory Veiling: Relating Literary Narratives to Text-Based Protests to Cyberactivism.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 17/2: 220-239.

2021                “The Significance of Armenian Language in Iranian Armenian Diasporic Literature.” The Doha Institute Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: 1-6.

2021                “Breaking the Silences about Non-hetero Female Sexuality via Blogging in Iran: ‘The ‘not-woman, not-man’ in Saghi Ghahraman’s Poetry.” Journal of Homosexuality, 68/5: 830-848. Online September 2019

2020                “Iranian Armenians in Zoya Pirzad’s Works: Diasporic Transnational Identity.” Persian Media Productions: 1-4.

2019                “Zulaikha’s Displaced Desire in Jami’s ‘Yusuf va Zulaikha’,” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, 4/2: 62-77.

2019                “The Fluidity of Iranian-Armenian Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s Things We Left Unsaid.”  Iranian Minority Women Special Issue of International Journal of Persian Literature 4/1: 103-120.

2019                Rahimieh, Nasrin, Yaghoobi, Claudia, “Introduction.”  Iranian Minority Women Special Issue of International Journal of Persian Literature 4/1: 3-7.

2019                “Selseleh marateb-e mardanegi va mardan-e hamjensgara dar Iran.” (The Hierarchy of Masculinities and Male Homosexuality in Iran). Journal of Freedom of Thought-Iran 7 1: 193-219.

2018                “Pirzad’s Diasporic Transnational Subjects in ‘A Day Before Easter’” International Journal of Persian Literature, 3/1: 110-132.

2018                “Mapping Out Socio-Cultural Decadence on the Female Body: Sadeq Chubak’s Gowhar in Sange-e Sabur. Frontier: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Mapping Gendered Violence Special Issue 39/2: 206-232.

2018                “The Abject Outsider: “The Story of Two Gay Men. Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Iranian Men and Masculinities Special Issue 3/1: 164-188. 

2016                “Socially Peripheral, Symbolically Central: Sima in Behrouz Afkhami’s Shokaran.” Iranian Female Sexuality Special Issue of Asian Cinema Journal, 27/2: 151-163.

2016                “Yusuf’s “Queer” Beauty in Persian Cultural Productions.” The Comparatist, 40/1: 245-266.

2014                “Hamzisti dar Asar-e ‘Attar.” (Co-existence in ‘Attar’s Works) Rahavard Persian/English Journal of Iranian Studies, 105: 142-152.

2014                “Sexual Trauma and Spiritual Experiences: Rabi’a al- ‘A’dawiyya and Margery Kempe.” Persian Literary Studies Journal, 3/4: 73-92.

2014                “Subjectivity in ‘Attar’s Shaykh San’an Story in Conference of the Birds.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 16/1: 1-9.

2012                “Against the Current: Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s Diverse Voices.” Persian Literary Studies Journal, 1/1: 87-109.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

2024                “The Significance of Educator’s Self-actualization in Teaching Gender in Persian Literature.” The Art of Teaching Persian Literature: From Theory to Practice. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Franklin Lewis, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (eds). Pp. 223-240, Brill Publishing.

2023                “Introduction: Bodies, Spaces, and Places,” In Yaghoobi, C. (ed.), The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment. Sex, Marriage and the Family in the Middle East series. pp. 1-10, Bloomsbury Press.

2012                “Shifting Sexual Ideology and Women’s Responses: Iran Between 1850-2010,” Homa Hoodfar and Anissa Lucas-Helie, (eds.), Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance. pp. 52-80, London: Zed Books.

Book Reviews

Review of The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination by Rebecca R. Gould. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2023.

Review of Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran by Lior Sternfeld. Journal of Iranian Studies 56/1 (2023): 195-7.

Review of Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today edited by Ceren Özpınar and Mary Kelly. Women’s Art Journal 42. 2 (2021) 51-3.

Review of From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran by Jacqueline Saper. Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, March 2021.

Review of The Persian Whitman by Behnam Fomeshi. Amerikastudien / American Studies Journal 65. 2 (2020): 247-8.

Review of The Poetics and Politics of The Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure by Azadeh Fatehrad, Journal of Iranian Studies 53. 5/6 (2020): 1029-1032.

Review of Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War by Ata Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, and Shouleh Vatanabadi. Review of Middle East Studies 51. 2 (2017): 298-300.

Review of Nasrin Rahimieh. Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity, N.Y.: Routledge, 2016. 155 pp. Society for Contemporary Thought and Islamicate Thought (2016).

Review of Roksana Bahramitash. Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran: Microenterprise and Informal Sectors, Palgrave McMillan Publishers, 2013. 236 pp. Review of Middle East Studies (2015).

Review of Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad et al. Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today, Oxford, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. 2011. 192 pp. Review of Middle East Studies (2012).

Review of Tara Willimas. Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing, Ohio: Ohio State University Press. 2011. 288 pp. Comitatus: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2012).

Review of Arzoo Osanloo. The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2009. 280 pp. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012).

Review of Margot Badran. Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences, Oxford: OneWorld Publications. 2009. 368 pp. International Journal of Middle East Studies (2011).