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Fatemeh Shams

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Fatemeh ShamsAssoci

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fshams@sas.upenn.edu
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Associate Professor of Persian Literature
    Fields of Study
  • Art/ Media
  • Film
  • Historiography and Historical Writing
  • Life Writing, Auto/biography
  • Novel
  • Poetry/ Poetics
  • Pre-Modern Genres and Literary Forms
  • Short Story
  • Diaspora
  • Middle East/North Africa
  • Near East
  • World Literature
  • C20, including Modernism
  • C21/ Contemporary
  • Medieval (C6-C14 C.E)
  • Deconstruction
  • Formalism/ Structuralism
  • Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
  • Marxism
  • Narratology
  • Sociology of Literature
  • Spatial Theory
  • Translation
  • Trauma
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