Dr. Manijeh Mannani, Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature
Email: manijehm@athabascau.ca
Local Phone: (780) 436-4898
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B.A. (Shahid Beheshti University)
M.A. - (Tehran University)
Ph.D. - (University of Alberta)
Professor Mannani coordinates English 212, 336, 351, 423, and 492. 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 has taught various courses in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. She has also taught courses in English Language & Literature overseas at a number of post-secondary institutions, and English Language & Literature and Comparative Literature at Grant MacEwan College.
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.
Dr. Mannani's research and teaching interests include comparative literature, cultural studies, genre studies, Literary theory and colonial/post-colonial literature. The following are among her articles that have been published in referreed journals and encyclopaedia:
"The Philosophical Fundamentals of Belief in the Mystical Poetry of Rumi and Donne." Religious Studies and Theology ( 2006).
"Jonathan Boucher." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (2006).
"Margaret Atwood." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (2006).
"May Swenson." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (2006).
"Defamiliarization and the Poetry of e.e. cummings." The Alberta New Music & Arts Review (1999-2002).
"Forugh Farrokhzad's Poetry and the Reader's Experience." Crossing Boundaries—an interdisciplinary journal(2001).
"Ahdaf Soueif: In the Eye of the Sun." Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction (2001).
"José Saramago: Blindness." Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction (2001).
"The Sacred and the Erotic Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi and John Donne: A Comparison." CRCL: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (2000).
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