Manijeh Mannani
Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature
- Email: manijehm@athabascau.ca
Phone: 780-436-4898 or 1-866-376-3105 - B.A. (Shahid Beheshti University)
M.A. (Tehran University)
Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
Professor Mannani coordinates ENGL 212, ENGL 316, ENGL 335, ENGL 336, ENGL 423, ENGL 491, ENGL 492, and ENGL 693. She is Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta. She has earned her B.A. (First Class Honors) and M.A. (First Class Honors) degrees in English from Shahid Beheshti University and Tehran University, respectively.
Dr. Mannani specializes in the poetry of the Persian mystic, Rumi, and the English Metaphysical poet, John Donne. Her book, Divine Deviants: The Dialectics of Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi, was published in 2007 by Peter Lang Publishing in New York.
She is also the author of Najvā: Selected poems of E.D. Blodgett in Persian which was published in 2006 in Tehran by Nasl-i Nuvīn.
Dr. Mannani's research and teaching interests include Comparative Literature, Poetry, Autobiography, Iranian Studies, and Aspects of Theory.
Professor Mannani is on the editorial board of Athabasca University Press and the Series Editor for Mingling Voices.
Selected Articles Published in Refereed Journals
"The Metaphysics of the Heart in the Sufi Poetry of Rumi." Religion & Literature. Guest Ed. Hannibal Hamlin (invited contributor). Accepted.
"Reading beyond Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 29.2 (2009): 322-334.
"The Philosophical Fundamentals of Belief in the Mystical Poetry of Rumi and Donne." Religious Studies and Theology 25.2 (2006): 137-160.
"Defamiliarization and the Poetry of e.e. cummings." The Alberta New Music & Arts Review 3/4.4/5 (1999-2002): 37-55.
"Forugh Farrokhzad's Poetry and the Reader's Experience." Crossing Boundaries—an interdisciplinary journal. Vol.1, No. 1 (Fall 2001): 49-64.
"The Sacred and the Erotic Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi and John Donne: A Comparison." CRCL: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 27.4 (2000): 625-644.
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