Mostafa Abedinifard: Assistant Professor at Department of Asian Studies, UBC Faculty of Arts

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Arts

Research Classification

Literature and literary studies

Research Interests

Iran (Persian, etc.); Afghanistan (Dari; Pashto); Tajikistan (Tajik); Pakistan (Urdu); India

Iranian and Persianate studies through fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction; folk narratives

(global South) literary theory; literary histories; history of ideas & emotions

critical diversity studies (gender and sexuality; race; masculinities)

comparative studies of literature; literature as world literature; diaspora literatures and cultures

food/cuisine, wellbeing, and environmental sustainability

ethnomusicology

scriptures as literature

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Research Methodology

Qualitative Research

historical research

life histories and autobiographies

media analysis

Recruitment

Looking to recruit: Master's students

Desired start dates: 2023

Potential research project areas:

Welcoming especially inter- and trans-disciplinary as well as archival research projects in literature and culture, Dr. Abedinifard is currently accepting, to advise or co-advise, a limited number of MA students with shared interests who wish to advance their research in Iranian and Persianate studies within an “area,” “comparative” or “global” studies framework, focusing on literary and cultural texts from any or a combination of the following areas, with primary texts in original language and/or English translation: (All proposal material as well as any submitted research by students must be rendered in written English, with quotes from any original language appearing both in original and English at all stages of the development of the research.) (For application deadlines and any information regarding where and how to apply, please contact the Department via the following specified form.)

Iran (Persian—as well as Azeri; Kurdish; Arabic; Turkmen; Balochi; Gilaki; etc.)
Afghanistan (especially Dari and Pashto)
Tajikistan (Tajik [Latin/Cyrillic/Arabic scripts])
Pakistan (Urdu)
India (Gujarati and Hindi-Urdu)
their diasporas

Other options: I am interested in supervising students to conduct interdisciplinary research.

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