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Jasmin Darznik

Assistant Professor of English

Payne Hall 22
(540) 458-8762
darznikj@wlu.edu

Education

Ph.D., M.A., English Literature, Princeton University
J. D., University of California, Hastings College
B.A., magna cum laude, English Literature and German, University of California, Los Angeles

Research

Twentieth century ethnic American autobiograpphy and fiction, Iranian and Arab American literature, postcolonial literatures in English.

Teaching

  • English 105: Composition and Literature
  • Englsih 203: Introduction to Fiction Writing
  • English 291: Contemporary Iranian Women Writers
  • English 380: Twentieth Century American Immigrant Literatures
  • English 413: Literature and Human Rights

 

 

Selected Publications

Book

The Good Daughter (forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing, Random House U.K., Random House Germany & Cairo Publishing Italia).

Selected Essays and Articles     

  • "Forough Goes West: The Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad in Iranian Diasporic Art and Literature," forthcoming in The Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies.
  • "Home and Away," Love and Pomegranates: Unveiling Iran, forthcoming anthology
  • "Avenue Monireyeh," Cimarron Review (Winter 2009).
  • "The Perils and Seductions of Home: Iranian American Return Narratives," Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS), special issue on Iranian American Literature (Summer 2008).
  • "Driving American," San Francisco Chronicle Magazine (Dec. 2007).
  • "Masquerade," The Washington Post Magazine (Oct. 2007).
  • "Persian, English," ArteNews (July 2007).
  • "The Art, Life and Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad, Iran's Poet of Exile," Women's Review of Books (Nov./Dec. 2006).
  • "Safety Zone," San Francisco Chronicle Magazine (Nov. 2006).
  • "The Shah's New Clothes," Los Angeles Times Magazine (Sept. 2006).
  • "Homecoming," ZYZZYVA (Fall 2006).
  • "Transcontinental Candy," San Francisco Chronicle Magazine (Oct. 2005).

Fiction
  • "Ziba," The Los Angeles Review 4 (Winter 2007).
  • "Ablutions," Alimentum (Winter 2007/2008).
  • "Zari," Twelve Ways (July 2006).


Reviews and Interviews

  • "Dreaming in Persian: An Interview with Gina Nahai," MELUS (Summer 2008).
  • "Veiled Readings—Contemporary Autobiographies from the Middle East." Rev. Soft Weapons by Gillian Whitlock and Let Me Tell You Where I Have Been by Persis Karim. Women's Review of Books (Jan./Feb. 2006).
  • "Leaving Home —and Finding It." Rev. A Bed of Red Flowers, a memoir of Afghanistan by Nelofer Pazira. Women's Review of Books (Jan/.Feb. 2006).

Works- in-Progress

Lustre: A Novel

Reborn (English translation of Forough Farraokhzad's poetry)

Writing Awards

  • Norman Mailer Colony Scholarship (2009)
  • Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing (2008-2009)
  • Iowa Review Award for Creative Non-Fiction (2007 finalist)
  • Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Prize (2006)
  • Tanenbaum Award for Creative Non-Fiction (2006)
  • Marin Arts Council New Work Fellowship (2005-2007)

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