Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam
PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of the Arts & Media
Supervisors: Laetitia Nanquette, Sean Pryor
Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam is a PhD candidate in literary studies at the School of Arts and Media at UNSW. He is currently working under the supervision of Dr Laetitia Nanquette. His peer-reviewed articles, co-authored with Dr Amanda Laugesen, have been published in the Journal of Translation Studies and The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. His current research focuses on literary studies, Iranian and Azerbaijani literatures, and comparative and world literature.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- Literary Studies
- Literary Theory
- Iranian Studies
- Turkic Languages and Literatures
- Turkology
- Translators as organic intellectuals, Translational activism in pre-revolutionary Iran.
- Franklin Book Programs in Iran (ca 1953–1978) and the politics of translation during the Cold War.