Yaser Farashahinejad

Yaser Farashahinejad is a research associate with the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto. He also served as The Northrop Frye Center Visiting Research Fellow, Victoria College, at the University of Toronto. Yaser holds a PhD in Persian literature and language and completed his postdoctoral research at Tarbiat Modares University in 2022. In addition to his academic pursuits, he is also a fiction writer, poet, and translator. To date, Yaser has authored four books: Gūrʹhā-yi kāghazī (Paper graves) published by Diyār Nāmag in 1401/2022; Farār az furm (Escaping form) with Tarh-i naw Publications, Tehran in 1399/2020; Minārahʹhā-yi vārūnah (Inverted minarets) also published in 1399/2020 by Tarh-i naw; and Nazarīyahʹhā-yi rumān dar Īrān (Theories of the novel in Iran), which was brought out by Pāyā Publications in 1398/2019. As a translator, Yaser has thus far rendered two books from English to Persian: Hamid Rezaei Yazd’s Persian Literature and Modernity (as Mudarnītah-ʾi guftugūʾī published in 2021 by Tarh-i naw) and The Rumi Prescription by Melody Moezzi (also published by Tarh-i naw in 1400/2021 under the title Darmāngarī-i Mawlānā). He has recently finished translating Ali Mirsepassi’s Transnationalism in Iranian Philosophical Thought, the manuscript of which is currently in press. Yaser has published numerous articles in Iran and internationally, focusing on contemporary Persian literature and history. His work has appeared in various publications, including Iran Namag, where he has published two articles. A third piece, titled “Subliminal Dialogue,” is forthcoming in the same journal. Since 2020, Yaser has also worked as an editor and book reviewer at Tarh-i naw, a highly reputable and prestigious publisher in Iran. His research interests revolve around modernity, dialogue, and the philosophy of literature.

Contributions

Zhīlā Musāʿid: Poetry at the Crossroads of Myth and Modernity

Figure 1: Zhīlā Musāʿid in her early forties, in Mīrzā Āqā ʿAskarī, “Rābitahʹam bā jahān az tarīq-i kalamāt ast” [My…

Parvīn Dawlatābādī: The Poet of the Literary Elite

Figure 1. Photo of the young Parvīn Dawlatābādī (Courtesy of Shīvā Dawlatābādī, taken February 7, 1955 in Paris). The Life…