Nima Naghibi

Nima Naghibi is a Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her research is in the areas of postcolonial and diaspora studies, and life narratives with particular attention to questions of human rights and social justice. She is the author of Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora (Minnesota Press, 2016) and Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran (Minnesota Press, 2007). She has published on Western representations of Muslim/Middle Eastern Women, specifically the hijab, in Western discourses; diasporic Iranian life narratives; documentary films, and the filmic adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Her essays have appeared in such journals as English Studies in Canada, Interventions: an International Journal of Postcolonial Studies; Radical History Review, and Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2022 - Mariam Vakani; Thesis: For Our Mothers in Their Kitchens: Negotiating Mother-Daughter Relationships in Culinary Memoirs

2020 - Preethi Jagadeesh (co-supervision); Project-Paper: Of All Places: The Making of an Essay Film for the Interrogation of ‘Home’ Through Diasporic Experience

2012 - Ronak Ghorbani Nejad; Major Research Paper: We Speak for Ourselves!: The Art of Self-Publishing, Alternative World Making, And Muslim Feminisms, A Case Study

2010 - Anna Lisa Candido; Major Research Paper: Affective News: A Case-Study of the Work of Emotions in News Coverage of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti

2016 - Andrea Schofield (co-supervision); Dissertation: This is for fighting, this is for fun: popular Hollywood combat (war) films from the first Gulf war to the present (1990-2015)

ComCult Teaching Activities

CC 8903 MA Seminar: Research and Practice