Associate Professor Laetitia Nanquette
BA (Sorbonne University, Paris); PhD (SOAS, University of London)
I work on modern and contemporary Persian literature; Print Culture; Publishing; Book History; World Literature; Sociology of literature; Digital Humanities.
I was trained in France, the United Kingdom, Iran, and the United States (Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard University) before coming to Australia in 2013.
Between 2015 and 2019, I was an Australia Research Council DECRA Fellow.
In 2023/2024, I am an associated EUME Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin: https://www.eume-berlin.de/fellows/vita/2023-2024/laetitia-nanquette
My second book was published in 2021: "Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP): https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-iranian-literature-after-the-islamic-revolution.html
Here's a blog post mostly about the book: https://centerforiraniandiasporastudies.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/iranian-diaspora-spotlight-dr-laetitia-nanquette-a-scholar-writing-from-outside-and-inside/
An interview for SBS Persian on it: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/persian/audio/laetitia-nanquette-iranian-literature-after-the-islamic-revolution_1
A podcast on the book and my research: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/new-books-in-middle-eastern-studies/id426138594?i=1000611966819
And an interview in Spanish on my research in general: https://orientemedio.news/la-literatura-irani-despues-de-la-revolucion-islamica/
I am interested in translation studies and in the practice of translation. My translations of Iranian short stories into French have been published in literary journals, and I have translated Persian texts into English with Ali Alizadeh.
I am Associate Editor for the Q1 journal Iranian Studies (Cambridge UP) and editor for the Modern Persian literature section of Abstracta Iranica (Peeters publishers).
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Here is the link to some of my publications on the UNSW repository:
https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,nanquette&tab=default_tab&search_scope=unsworks_search_scope&vid=UNSWORKS&offset=0
Association for Iranian Studies
Centre for Iranian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
International Comparative Literature Association
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