Speakers

• Farzaneh Milani
• University of Virginia

• Talk Video (English)

• Talk Video (Persian)

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  Farzaneh Milani is the author of Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement; Veils and Words: The Emerging Voice of Iranian Women Writers and the translator, with Kaveh Safa, of A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani. She has published more than one hundred articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwards in Persian and English. She has served as the guest editor for two special issues of Nimeye-Digar, IranNameh, and Iranian Studies. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Ms. Magazine, Readers Digest, USA Today, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She has presented more than 150 lectures nationally and internationally. Former director of Studies in Women and Gender and current chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, Milani is professor of Persian literature and women's studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She was a Carnegie Scholar (2006--2007) and McAndless Distinguished Chair at Eastern Michigan University for 2010. Past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of the All University Teaching Award in 1998 and nominated for the Virginia Faculty of the Year award in 1999.