Supervision

Ph.D. Dissertations

Rakhshandeh Nabizadeh, “The Discourse of Madness in Three Major Shakespearean Tragedies” (to be defended)
Muhammad Sadegh Zarei, “Narratology and the Ethics of Alterity in Naipaul’s Major Fiction” (to be defended)
Saba Azimi, “Body as Metaphor: A Study of Mid-Twentieth Century Major American Women Poets” (to be defended)
Ghiasuddin Alizadeh, “The Dawn of Freedom or the Dusk of Captivity: Psychoanalytical Study of the Major British Romantic Poets” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2018)
Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar, “Language, Biopolitics, and Poetics of Potentiality in Richard Foreman’s Theater” (Shahid Beheshti University, October 2015)
Fariba Parvizi, “Dynamics of Identity: Canonical American Feminist Science Fiction from 1960s to1990s” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2013)
Azita Arian, “Poetics of Becoming: A Deleuzian Reading of Shakespeare’s Major Plays” (Islamic Azad University, December 2012)
Mohammadreza Noorollahi Ravari, “A Deconstructive Reading of Five Major Feminist Novels by African-American Women Writers” (Islamic Azad University, Summer 2012)
Naeimeh Tabatabaei Lotfi, “A Cultural Reading of Memory in Amy Tan and Ian McEvan” (Islamic Azad University, Summer 2012)
Negar Sharif, “Theatricalization of Female Experience: A Post-Structuralist Feminist Study of Susa Sontag’s Fiction,” (Shahid Beheshti University, Spring 2012)

M.A. Theses

Azari, “Temporality of power: Productive forces in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Ghostwritten” (Shahid Beheshti University, to be defended)
Farzad Hosseini, “Narratives of Fantasy: Formulations and Contestations in the English Epyllion” (Shahid Beheshti University, to be defended)
Fahime Mirzapour, “The Children of Loss: Traumatic Experience and The Violent World of Fantasy in Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Matilda and The Witches” (Shahid Beheshti University, May 2018)
Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari, “The Hidden Matrix: Agambenian State of Exception, Homo Sacer and Bare Life in Yaël Farber’s Stage Production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2018)
Sharare Ashuri Shadehi, “History, Trauma and the Indigenous Identity in Anthony Eaton’s A New Kind of Dreaming, Gary Crew’s No Such Country and Strange Objects, and Victor Kelleher’s Baily’s Bones” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2018)
Maryam Bizar, “Everyman in the Postmodern Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Deleuzian Analysis” (Shahid Beheshti University, August 2017)
Shirin Sadat Safavi, “Capitalism and Its Discontents in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter” (Shahid Beheshti University, August 2017)
Farzaneh Salimi, “Women in Memory Plays of Harold Pinter: A Kristevan Reading” (Shahid Beheshti University, August 2017)
Tala Azarakhsh, “Desire and Becoming: A Deleuzean Reading of William Shakespeare’s Major Comedies” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2017)
Salar Ghatta, “Belated Narratives in Nabokov’s Pale Fire” (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2016)
Salar Ghatta, “Belated Narratives in Nabokov’s Pale Fire” (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2016)
Mohammad Affianian, “A Tale of Two Utopias: A Comparative Study of Thomas More’s Utopia and Al-Farabi’s Ara” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2016)
Mohammad Affianian, “A Tale of Two Utopias: A Comparative Study of Thomas More’s Utopia and Al-Farabi’s Ara” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2016)
Forough Emam, “A Kristevan Reading of Sam Shepard’s Three Major Plays” (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2015)
Javad Abrehdari, “A Post-Jungian Study of Shakespeare’s As You Like It” (Islamic Azad University, September 2015)
Saman Zoleikhaei, “Lacanian Reading of James Joyce’s Exiles” (Shahid Beheshti University, July 2015)
Masoud Forouhar, “Faustus as Desiring Machine” (Shahid Beheshti University, December 2014)
Ahmad Bozorgmehr, “An Analysis of Lacanian Gaze in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Tim Burton’s Cinematic Adaptation’ (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2014)
Elias Naqipour, “The Politics of Change: A Žižekian Reading of Harold Pinter’s Major Plays” (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2013)
Parastoo Nasrollahzadeh, “Mother-Daughter Relationships in Major Plays of Caryl Churchill Based on the Theories of Luce Irigaray” (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2013)
Hamed Morovatdar, “Female Identity in Donne’s Songs and Sonnets and Elegies”
Tahereh Omidkhah, “History and Memory in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (Shahid Beheshti University, Spring 2013)
Ghiasuddin Alizadeh, “A Post-structuralist Reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of Ancient Mariner” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2013)
Sara Nazokdast, “Locating the Cogito in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot” (Shahid Beheshti University, February 2012)
Shadi Ghazimorai, “Postmodern Love: Desire and the Lover’s Discourse in the Short Stories of Raymond Carver,” ((Shahid Beheshti University June 2011)
Farhad Jafari, “Interpellation and Textual Paradoxes in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton” (Shahid Beheshti University, March 2010)
Navid Sharifi, “Paranoid Psychosis in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five” (Shahid Beheshti University, June 2010)
Ali Nakisa, “Machiavellianism, Power and Subversion in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V” (Shahid Beheshti University, June 2009)
Mohsen Fakhri, “A Post-Colonial Study of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2009)
Sara Saei Dibavar, “Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights Based on Julia Kristeva’s Psychanalytic Ideas” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2009)
Fatima Tofighi, “Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: An Iserian Reading” (Shahid Beheshti University, December 2008)
Farangis Ghaderi, “Hypertextual Reading of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Baz Luhrmann’s Cinematic Adaptation” (Shahid Beheshti University, June 2008)
Shadi Majidi Tabrizi, “A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2008)
Mina Haghighat Shahmarasi, “A Semiotic Reading of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and Ashes to Ashes” (Shahid Beheshti University, February 2007)
Zeynab Charkhab, “The Identity Crisis in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi from a Feminist Perspective” (Shahid Beheshti University, March 2006)
Reza Tayebi Sabet Khomami, “A Foucauldian Reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Shahid Beheshti University, March 2006)
Sepideh Baniahmadi, “A Structural Observation of the Binary Oppositions in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus” (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2006)
Sarbas Nazari, “A Semiotic Reading of Shakespeare’s Macbeth Based on Jack Gold’s Performance” (Shahid Beheshti University, October 2006)
Farzad Shahinfard, “Wordsworth’s Myth of Nature Deconstructed: Allegory and Irony at Work” (Shahid Beheshti University, February 2005)
Saeed Asadi, “Love, Patriotism and Gyres in William Butler Yeats’ Poetry” (Islamic Azad University, August 2004)
Mohammad Ghavidel, “John Donne’s Concept of Love in the Light of Reader Response Theory” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2004)
Ehsan Emami, “A Comparative Assessment of ‘Reality’ in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Joyce’s Ulysses in a Marxist Framework” (Shahid Beheshti University, September 2004)
G. H. Gholampour, “A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Milton’s Paradise Lost” (Shahid Beheshti University, February 2004) Theory” (Shahid Beheshti University, January 2004)
Sanam Dolatshahi, “An Analytic Study of women in James Joyce’s Dubliners Under the Light of Feminism,” (Islamic Azad University 2004)