
Associate Professor Laetitia Nanquette
BA (Sorbonne University, Paris); PhD (SOAS, University of London)
I work on modern and contemporary Persian literature; Print Culture; Publishing; Book History; World Literature; Sociology of literature; Digital Humanities.
I was trained in France, the United Kingdom, Iran, and the United States (Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard University) before coming to Australia in 2013.
Between 2015 and 2019, I was an Australia Research Council DECRA Fellow.
In 2023/2024, I am an associated EUME Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin:
My second book was published in 2021: "Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP):
Here's a blog post mostly about the book:
An interview for SBS Persian on it:
A podcast on the book and my research:
And an interview in Spanish on my research in general:
I am interested in translation studies and in the practice of translation. My translations of Iranian short stories into French have been published in literary journals, and I have translated Persian texts into English with Ali Alizadeh.
I am Associate Editor for the Q1 journal Iranian Studies (Cambridge UP) and editor for the Modern Persian literature section of Abstracta Iranica (Peeters publishers).
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- Teaching and Supervision
Here is the link to some of my publications on the repository:
Association for Iranian Studies
Centre for Iranian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies
International Comparative Literature Association