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Associate Professor Laetitia Nanquette

Associate Professor Laetitia Nanquette

Associate Professor

BA (Sorbonne University, Paris); PhD (SOAS, University of London)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

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).

Phone
+61 (2) 9065 2101
Location
216, Level 2 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2021
    Nanquette L, 2021, Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World, EUP,
    Books | 2013
    Nanquette L, 2013, Orientalism Versus Occidentalism. Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution, IB tauris, London,
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Nanquette L, 2021, '“Contemporary Persian Literature and Digital Humanities”', in Abedinifard M; Azadibougar O; Vafa A (ed.), Persian Literature as World Literature, Bloomsbury Publishing USA,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Nanquette L, 2019, 'Towards a Globalisation of Contemporary Iranian Literature?: Iranian Literary Blogs and the Evolution of the Literary Field', in Mattar K; Ball A (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 383 - 406,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Nanquette L, 2018, 'Diaspora and Literary Production: Iranians in France', in Mobasher M (ed.), The Iranian Diaspora Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations, University of Texas Press, pp. 178 - 195,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Nanquette L, 2015, 'Cultural and Translation Exchanges Between Iran and the West (France, Germany, Great Britain, the United States)', in Publishing in Persian language in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Europe and the United States., International Alliance of Independent Publishers, pp. 111 - 130,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Nanquette L, 2015, 'Persian Literature of Exile in France: Goli Taraqqi’s Short Stories', in Thompson, Veronica ; Mannani, Manijeh (ed.), Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature, AU Press, Athabasca University, pp. 173 - 188,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Nanquette L; Biniaz B; Moradi F; Hosseinipour M; Amiri A; Rakhimov D, 2013, 'Cultural and translation exchanges between Iran and the West (France, Germany, Great Britain, the United States)', in Publishing in Persian language in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Europe and the United States, International Alliance of Independent Publishers, Paris
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Nanquette L, 2013, 'Alizada, Ghazala', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, Leiden,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Nanquette L, 2013, 'Fiction, Persian', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill, Leiden,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Nanquette L, 2013, 'Gulshiri, Hushang', in , Brill, Leiden,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Nanquette L, 2011, 'Persian Literature of Exile in France', in Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference of Iranian Studies, Cahier de Studia Iranica, Peeters Press, pp. 95 - 105
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Nanquette L, 2025, 'Publishing and the State: Print Culture, Censorship and Authoritarianism in Iran, 1950-2020', Oriente Moderno, 104, pp. 72 - 99,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Nanquette L, 2024, 'Publishing and the State: Print Culture, Censorship and Authoritarianism in Iran, 1950-2020', Oriente Moderno, 104, pp. 1 - 29
    Journal articles | 2023
    Laetitia N; Nanquette L, 2023, 'Censorship of Texts in Iran after the 1979 Revolution: History and Operating', Revue Des Mondes Musulmans Et De La Mediterranee, 154,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Nanquette L, 2021, 'Iranian Children’s Literature after the Islamic Revolution of 1979', Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, 5, pp. 62 - 70,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Nanquette L, 2017, 'The Circulation of Iranian Texts around the World: The Appearance of a Transnational Iranian Publishing Industry?', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, pp. 157 - 169
    Journal articles | 2017
    Nanquette L, 2017, 'The Global Circulation of an Iranian Bestseller', Interventions, 19, pp. 56 - 72,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Nanquette L, 2016, 'Translations of modern Persian literature in the United States: 1979–2011', The Translator, 23, pp. 49 - 66,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Nanquette L, 2015, 'Arab Occidentalism: Images of America in the Middle East by Eid Mohamed (review)', Journal of Shi a Islamic Studies, 8, pp. 516 - 517,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Nanquette L, 2014, 'Iranian Exilic Poetry in Australia: Reinventing the Third Space', Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, 28, pp. 393 - 415,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Nanquette L, 2014, 'Refugee Life Writing in Australia: Testimonios by Iranians', Postcolonial Text, 9, pp. 1 - 18,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Nanquette L, 2013, 'An Iranian woman's memoir on the Iran-Iraq war: The production and reception of da', Iranian Studies, 46, pp. 943 - 957,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Nanquette L, 2012, 'Le roman en français des écrivains iraniennes : l’exemple du Cimetière de verre de Sorour Kasmaï', Revue de Téhéran, 83,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Nanquette L, 2011, 'Imagology as a Reading Practice for French and Persian Contemporary Prose Texts (text in Persian, translated by Mojdeh Daqiqi)', Comparative Literature. Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, 2, pp. 100 - 115
    Journal articles | 2011
    Nanquette L, 2011, 'Le discours sur l'Occident chez les intellectuels iraniens de la modernité', Sociétés et représentations, 31, pp. 191 - 198
    Journal articles | 2011
    Nanquette L, 2011, 'The Persian Novel in French: A Hybrid Genre', Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 31, pp. 498 - 505
    Journal articles | 2010
    Nanquette L, 2010, 'Comment peut-on être persan? versus Comment peut-on être français?', Analytica Iranica, 1, pp. 115 - 130
    Journal articles | 2009
    Nanquette L, 2009, 'French New Orientalist Narratives from the ‘Natives’: Reading More than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris', Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 29, pp. 269 - 280
  • Other | 2017
    Nanquette L (ed.), 2017, Southerly, “Persian Passages”, Laetitia Nanquette and Ali Alizadeh, 76:3, 2016
  • Media | 2016
    Motlagh A, 2016, “Translations between center and periphery”, edited with Amy Motlagh, in “Persian Passages”, Laetitia Nanquette and Ali Alizadeh, 76:3, 2016,

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