Dr. Nima Naghibi

Nima Naghibi is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research is in the areas of diasporic studies, literatures of immigration and exile, 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 diasporic comics. 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.