Editorial Board




Director-in-Charge

Bakhtiar Sadjadi

English Language and Literature, Literary and Cultural Criticism and Theory Associate Professor of English and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

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Bakhtiar Sadjadi obtained his PhD in English from the University of Exeter and has a PhD in Philosophy from University of Pune. He is Associate Professor of English and Literary Criticism at University of Kurdistan. He currently works at the Department of English Literature and Linguistics in the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj. He was the Head of the first and, for the present, the only Department of Kurdish Language and Literature in Iran from 2015 to 2020. Focusing on literary and cultural theory and criticism, he has authored books and papers in Kurdish, English, and Persian. Sadjadi conducts researches in Literary Criticism, Cultural Theory, English Literature, and Kurdish Language and Literature. His main interest is the study of language, ideology, the unconscious, subjectivity, and identity constructed and represented in literary and artistic works and cultural practices. The question of subjectivity formation and identity construction and representation in literray works with reference to sociocultural changes is central to his research.

Editor-in-Chief

Jalal Sokhanvar

English Language and Literature, Romantic Poetry, Contemporary American Literature Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

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Professor Jalal Sokhanvar obtained his BA (1967) in English Language and Literature at the University of Mashhad, followed by getting his MA in English Literature at Senate House University of London. He received his PhD on American Literature at the University of Lille. He then joined the English department of Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) in 1976. He is interested in Philosophy of Literature, American literature, Literary Criticism, and contemporary Poetry and Drama. During his time at SBU, he has worked widely in student support and teaching practice, and was the head of curriculum development committee at the Iranian Ministry of Higher Education. He is also the editor-in-chief of Critical Language and Literary Studies. He has published books and articles on English Literature, Literary Criticism, and Modern Drama.

International Editorial Board

María Luisa Carrio-Pastor

English Philology, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Metadiscourse Professor of English Language, Department of Applied Linguistics, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

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María Luisa Carrió Pastor is Professor of English at the Universitat Politècnica de València. She is currently the Director of the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Coordinator of the Doctorate Program “Languages, literatures, cultures, and their applications.” She is also the editor of the “Journal of Linguistics and Applied Languages.” Her research areas are comparative linguistics, analysis of academic and professional discourse, and teaching English as a foreign language. The methodology of her research is based on corpus analysis.

Jaffer Sheyholislami

Critical Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Kurdish Language and Literature Professor of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, and Linguistics, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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jaffer.sheyholislamicarleton.ca
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Professor Sheyholislami’s research, supervision and teaching evolve around two main areas of applied linguistics and discourse studies: critical discourse studies (CDS) and sociolinguistics. After years of radio broadcasting in Iran, he completed his first Canadian degree at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, in Library and Information Science, in 1993. After completing his B. A. in general linguistics — concurrent with a Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language — he taught English to newcomers in Ottawa for several years. In the meantime, he devoted his MA research to a Systemic Functional Linguistics-informed Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of North American news discourse around international events. He continued to employ CDS/CDA in his PhD research, focusing on identity formation practices of Kurdish new media (specifically satellite TV and the Internet). The results of this and other related research projects have been published in a monograph, Kurdish Identity, Discourse and New Media, Palgrave Macmillan (2011), in addition to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes published in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He has continued to conduct research, supervise, and teach in the area of Critical Discourse Studies. In the past several years he has immersed himself in sociolinguistics, especially in relation to Kurdish, an area in which he was interested long before he entered academia. He is especially interested in language policy and planning, language and identity, mother-tongue education, linguistic landscape, and language ideologies. His works in these areas have appeared in over a dozen refereed journals, peer-reviewed edited collections, and major encyclopaedia and handbooks. It is because of these diverse interests that he has been privileged to carry out graduate supervision in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Iraq. In 2012, he was nominated for the Capital Educator’s Award, and in 2016 he was awarded the Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award at Carleton.

Albrecht Classen

German Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Cultural Studies Distinguished Professor of German Studies, Department of German Studies, University of Arizona, United States

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aclassenarizona.edu
0000-0002-3878-319X

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Albrecht Classen was born in 1956 near Bad Hersfeld in Northern Hesse. He studied at the universities of Marburg  and Erlangen (Germany), Millersville, PA (USA), Oxford (Great Britain), Salamanca (Spain), Urbino (Italy), and Charlottesville, VA (USA). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1986.  He has a broad range of research interests covering the history of German and European literature and culture from about 800 to 1800. In more than 100 scholarly books and well over 700 articles he has explored the wide range of medieval and early modern culture; focusing, most recently, on topics such as the forest, water, prostitution, trailing, imagination, pleasure, gender, toleration and tolerance, xenology, and paradigm shifts. But he also pays close attention to contemporary conditions, including politics, economy, sports, and literature. He is also a poet of his own rights and has so far published nine volumes of his own texts in German, most recently: Hawaiische Impressionen (2013) and Sonora: harter Klang (2015).  He is an active contributor to the literary journal Trans-Lit2, for which he also serves as the book review editor. For many years he has written poetry and has published nine volumes so far, apart from many contributions to Trans-Lit2 and other journals. In 2016 he was selected as a member of the PEN-Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland (PEN Center of German-Speaking Authors Abroad). In 2018 he published his first volume of satires, Amerikanische Satiren (Leipzig: Engelsdorfer Verlag).

Éric Athenot

Ninteenth American Poetry, Literature Studies, Textual Criticism Professor of American Literature, Département d'Anglais, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne - Université Paris 12, Département d'Anglais

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Éric Athenot is professor of American literature at Université Paris-Est Créteil. He translated the first-ever French translation of Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass. After a thesis defended in 1995 on the work of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Éric Athenot devotes most of his research to 19th century American poetry. His activities have focused for the past twenty years on Walt Whitman (1819-1892), to whom he has devoted a monograph, numerous articles and communications and whose work he translates for José Corti editions. For a few years now, he has also been interested in the work of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), which he willingly puts alongside that of Whitman. He has also published works on contemporary American fiction (Richard Powers, Mary Caponegro, Rikki Ducornet).

 

Editorial Board

Fazel Asadi Amjad

English Literature,Romantic Studies, Philosophy and Literature, Islamic Mysticism, Translation of Islamic Texts Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

khu.ac.ir/cv/374/
asadikhu.ac.ir
0098-21-4579600-0261
0000-0003-3600-1008

Seyed Mohammad Marandi

English Language and Literature, Diasporic Literature, Contemporary North American Fiction Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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mmarandiut.ac.ir
0000-0003-3877-870X

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Seyed Mohammad Marandi is professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a graduate of the University of Tehran and Birmingham University (UK), where his PhD thesis was entitled Lord Byron, his critics and Orientalism, described as a “response to Edward Said’s Orientalism”. Marandi has appeared as a political and social commentator on international news networks such as PBS, RT, ABC, CGTN, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and Press TV.

Sayed Ahmad Parsa

Persion Language and Literature Professor, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Languages, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

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a.parsauok.ac.ir
0000-0002-4711-4713

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Zakarya Bezdoode

Cultural studies and Literature, Narrative Studies, Contemporary Fiction in English Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

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z.bezdodehuok.ac.ir
0000-0002-6261-4855

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Zakarya Bezdoode received his PhD in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. He teaches English Literature at the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Kurdistan. He is interested in cultural studies and conducts research on subjectivity and identity in contemporary English and Kurdish fiction. He is writiting fiction too, and his first collection of short stories in Kurdish, Dialogue, was published in 2018.

 

Alireza Farahbakhsh

English Language and Literature, Contemporary British and American Literature Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

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0000-0002-7526-2182

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Azra Ghandeharion

Literature and Cultural Studies, Comparative Studies, and Minority Studies Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

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ghandeharioonum.ac.ir
009851-38805241
0000-0002-2147-1827

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Hossein Pirnajmuddin

English Language and Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Esfahan, Esfahan, Iran

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pirnajmuddinfgn.ui.ac.ir
0000-0001-8349-2626

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Ebrahim Badakhshan

Linguistics Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Languages, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

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ebadakhshanuok.ac.ir

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Editorial Manager

Younes Poorghorbanali

English Language and Literature PhD Candidate of English Literature, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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0000-0001-7631-0433

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Language Editor

Mostafa Hosseini (English Editor)

English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

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mhosseinibasu.ac.ir

Serveh Menbari (Persian Editor)

Translation Studies PhD Candidate of Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

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Executive Manager

Sajed Hosseini

M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

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sajed.hosseinygmail.com
0098-911-682-6485
0000-0002-4505-2686

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Indexing Advisor

Bahareh Nilforoshan

English Language and Literature PhD in English Language and Literature, IA University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

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Website Manager

Mohamad Daneshgar

English Language and Literature Postgraduate Student of English Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.

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