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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.

My latest book: "Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP): https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-iranian-literature-after-the-islamic-revolution.html

An interview for SBS Persian on it: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/persian/audio/laetitia-nanquette-iranian-literature-after-the-islamic-revolution_1

An interview in Persian with the cultural magazine Aasoo: https://aasoo.org/fa/books/5237

A podcast on the book and my research: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/new-books-in-middle-eastern-studies/id426138594?i=1000611966819

A blog post about my research: https://centerforiraniandiasporastudies.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/iranian-diaspora-spotlight-dr-laetitia-nanquette-a-scholar-writing-from-outside-and-inside/

I sometime publish opinion pieces on Iran: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reviving-hope-iran-why-woman-life-freedom-movement-lives

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
E-mail
l.nanquette@unsw.edu.au
Location
216, Level 2 Robert Webster

Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow 2015-2019.

 

Here is the link to some of my publications on the UNSW repository:

https://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,nanquette&tab=default_tab&search_scope=unsworks_search_scope&vid=UNSWORKS&offset=0

Association for Iranian Studies

Centre for Iranian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies

 

My Research Supervision

 

My Teaching