Dr. Manijeh Mannani
Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor, English and Comparative Literature
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E-mail: manijehm@athabascau.ca
manijeh-mannaniDr. Manijeh Mannani
Dr. Manijeh Mannani
Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor, English and Comparative Literature
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Email: manijehm@athabascau.ca
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Manijeh Mannani holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta where she is Adjunct Professor. Professor Mannani is Dean in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is Series Editor for Mingling Voices and is on the Editorial Board of Religious Studies and Theology.
Research interests
Dr. Mannani's research and teaching interests include Persian literature, comparative literature, poetry, and life-writing. Her publications consist of Divine Deviants: The Dialectics of Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi (Peter Lang, 2007) and Najvā: Selected poems of E.D. Blodgett in Persian (Nasl-i Nuvīn, 2006). She is the co-editor of Perspectives on Comparative Canadian Literature: A Tribute to E.D. Blodgett (CRCL: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, forthcoming); Shades of Truth: Iranian Short Fiction of the Fifth Generation in Translation (Mazda Publishers, 2019); Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature (Athabasca University Press, 2015); and Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture (Athabasca University Press, 2012). Speak Only of the Moon: A New Translation of Rumi (Guernica Editions, 2017) is a collection of ghazals and other poems by the Persian Sufi poet, Rumi, in English which she has published in collaboration with E.D.Blodgett.