Articles

Articles in English
2018 “Towards a Poetics of Childhood Ethics in Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema”, (co-authored with Amir Hadi Nojoumian), Persian Literary Studies Journal (PLSJ) (forthcoming).
2018 “Textuality of History and Historicity of Texts in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Aboutorab Khosravi’s The Books of the Scribes”, in Le Affinita Imperfette: Elementi letterari ed artistici della cultura italiana e persiana a confronto, Maurizio Pistoso (a cura di), Bologna: Gruppo Persiani Editore Srls, 2018.
2017 “Cultural Trauma and the 9/11 Narratives by European-American and Middle Eastern American Writers”, (with Arash Rahmani), European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, Vol. 5, No. 9, October 2017, 67-87.
2016 “Glocal Translation”, (with Ahmad Shirkhani), Translation Studies, Volume 13, No. 52, Winter 2016 (Winter 1394), 47-60.
2013 “A Poetics of Free Indirect Discourse in Narrative Film”, (with Mohammad Ghaffary), Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol. V, No. 2, 2013, pp. 269-281.
2013 “The Relationship between Globalization and Translation: A Case Study of Ernest Hemingway’s Novels”, (with Zahra Reyhani Monfared), Journal of Language and Translation, Vol. 3, No. 2(5), Spring 2013, 79-90.
2012 “Landscapes of Split Identities: A Look at In-Between by Shay (Shaghayegh) Mazloom”, Catalogue for Photography Exhibition by Shay Mazloom, Atbin Gallery, Tehran, December 2012.
2012 “Preface”, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam (in Persian, English, German and French). Tehran: Okta Publications Company, 2012.
2012 “Globalization and Translation: Towards a Theoretical Model”, Translation Studies, (with Zahra Reyhani). No. 39, Autumn 1391 (Autumn 2012).
2011 “Teaching Literature for the Sake of Grammar”, (with Mehrdad Yousefpoori Naeim), ILI Language Teaching Journal, Vol. 5, Nos. 1&2, 2009. (Published in 2011)
2010 “From the Symbolic to the Semiotic: A Kristevan Reading of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”, (with A. Mahmoudzadeh),  Journal of Humanities: Alzahra University, Vol. 18, No. 72, 2008, 85-108. (published in 2010).
2009 “The Double Bind of Narrative Engagement with Children”, in Creativity and the Child, ed. Wendy C. Turgeon (Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press, 2009) (EBook).
2007 “Reader-Oriented Strategies for Teaching Poetry”, TELL, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2007, 119-136.
2007 “Some Misunderstandings in Benveniste’s Reading of Saussure’s ‘The Nature of Linguistic Sign’”, Journal of Human Sciences: Special Issue on Foreign Languages (College of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran), No. 55, Autumn 2007, 49-56.
2006 “Walter Benjamin: Translation and the ‘Kinship of Languages’,” Translation Studies, Vol. 3, No. 12 (Winter 2006), pp. 29-42.
2006 “Jacques Derrida: Translation and the Paradox of Decadence and Survival,” Translation Studies, Vol. 4, No. 13 (Spring 2006), pp. 27-40.
2005 “Poetization of Space in One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Pazhuhesh-e Zabanha-ye Khareji (A Periodical of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran), No. 27, Special Issue, English (1384), pp. 41-51.
2005 “A Comparative Study of Robinson Jeffers’s Poetry and Persian Mystical Poetry,” Journal of Human Sciences: Special Issue on Foreign Languages (College of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran), No. 43-44 (Autumn & Winter 2004-2005), pp. 61-68.
2005 “Tower of Babel and the ‘Genesis’ of Translation: Walter Benjamin’s and Jacques Derrida’s Readings of the Old Testament,” Translation Studies, Vol. 3, No. 11 (Autumn 2005), pp. 9-26.
2004 “Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable: The story of that impossible place named silence,” in After Beckett / D’apres Beckett, eds. Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clement (Amsterdam & NewYork: Rodopi, 2004).
2003 “Time in Postmodernist Literature,” Pazuhes-Name: Scientific and Research Quarterly Journal (Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University), No. 37 (Spring 2003), pp. 55-64.
2002 “The ‘Genesis’ of Language,” The Proceedings of The First Seminar on Issues of ELT (10-11 Oct 2001), No 21 (Tehran: Islamic Azad University: Tehran-North Branch, 2002), pp. 183-193.
2001 “Robinson Jeffers and Persian Mysticism,” New View  No. 18+1 (Autumn 2001), pp. 6-11.
1999 “Translation: Decadence or Survival of the Original?” in Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture, ed. Michael St John (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 223-234.
1998 “States of Emergency: Love, Fiction and History in André Brink’s States of Emergency,” Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions No. 2 (Summer 1998), pp. 18-23.
1997 “Labyrinthine Spaces in Postmodern Narrative,” ManuScript 2:1 (Summer 1997), pp. 39-47.
 

Articles in Persian
2017 “A Haunted Narrative: Signifying Trauma of Displacement in Lahiri’s Trilogy of ‘Hema and Kaushik’ in her Unaccustomed Earth”. (co-authored by Bahareh Bahmanpour), Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 14, No. 19, 2017, pp. 77-97.
2017 “Critical Dialogue of Iranian Novelists with 1360’s Ideological Discourse” (co-authored by L. Peighambarzadeh and G. Fallah), Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, No. 37, 2017, pp. 107-134.
2017 “Displaced Identities within Labyrinthine Narratives and Cities: A Case Study of the New York Trilogy”. Ketabeh Hafteh, Vol. 6, No. 187, 2017, pp. 94-107.
2017 “A Requiem for the Unwritten Women: Mehri Bahrami’s Birun az Gozashteh, Miyaneh Eivan”. Andisheyeh Pouya, Vol. 6, No. 47, 2017, pp. 106-107.
2017 “The Uncanny History and Unrepresentability of Subject Formation in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale” (co-authored by Roya Elahi). Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 4, No. 19, 2017, pp. 33-53.
2017 “The Effect of Literary Genres on Discursive Functionality of Female Characters in Adolescent Novels” (co-authored by F. Ghaneh). Journal of Studies in Children Literature of Shiraz University, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2017, pp. 131-152.
2017 “The Wind Will Carry Us: Bakhtiar Ali’s Jamshid Khan, My Uncle, Who Is Carried by the Wind”. Ketabeh Hafteh, Vol. 6, No. 158, 2017, pp. 58-63.
2017 “What is Theory and How Is It Formed?”. Azma, Vol. 18, No. 121, 2017, pp. 112-113.
2016 “Representation of Social Classes in Iranian Cinema”. Cinema and Literature Quarterly, No. 55 and 56, 2016, pp. 92-93.
2016 “Some Notes on Valiasr Street Photographs”. Photography Exhibition at Silk Road Gallery. 2016.
2016 “David Lynch’s The Elephant Man”. Ketabeh Hafteh, Vol. 5, No. 104, 2016, pp. 144-145.
2016 “The Significations of Liminal States in Abbas Kiarostami’s Films”. Ketabeh Hafteh, Vol. 5, No. 124, 2016, pp. 22-28.
2016 “The Process of Identity Realization in Barthelme’s Selected Short Stories” (co-authored by A. Sarmadi).  Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, No. 74/1, 2016, pp. 131-51.
2016 “The Translated Lifestyle: A Semiotic-Phenomenological Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies”. Journal of Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2016, pp. 9-22.
2015 De-mythologizing the Image of War Hero as Dominant Hegemonic Masculinity: A Critical Reading of David Rabe’s The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel” (co-authored by R. Yaghubi). Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, No. 72/2, 2015, pp. 249-273.
2015 “The Intellectual in the Guise of the Political Activist: Makan, the Painter and the Intellectual’s Always Already Banished Status”. Andisheyeh Pouya, No. 28, 2014, p. 129.
2015 “Intellectualism”, Cinema and Literature Quarterly, No. 42, September-November 2015, p. 222.
2015 “The Relation between Glocalization and Dramatic Monologue in Brain Friel’s The Faith Healer” (co-authored by A. Shirkhani). Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, No. 72/2, 2015, pp. 109-129.
2014 “Deconstruction of Diasporic Identity: Translating Process in Firoozeh Jazayeri Dumas’ Funny in Farsi”. Herfeh: The Artist, No. 50, 2014, pp. 169-175.
2014 “Enlightenment”. Cinema and Literature, No. 42, 2014, p. 222.
2014 “Genealogy of Saadi’s Discursive Functions in Contemporary Iran”. Saadi Shenasi: Journal of Saadi’s Foundation, No. 17, 2014, pp. 16-30.
2014 “Self-Deconstruction of Hafez/Ascetic Binary Opposition in Hafez’s Sonnets” (co-authored by F. Abdali). Quarterly of Literary Researches, No. 41, 2014, pp. 9-30.
2014 “Sweet Troubles of Free Indirect Discourse”. Zanan-e-Emruz, Vol. 1, No. 7, 2014, p. 70.
2014 “The City’s Labyrinthine Structure in Text’s Labyrinth: A Semiotic Study”. Donyayeh Ghalam, No. 5, 2014, pp. 34-37.
2014 “The Gift of Death: A Postcolonial Study of Nadine Gordimer’s A Sport of Nature” (co-authored by M. Farahmandfar). Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, No. 11, 2014, pp. 139-154.
2014 “The Role of Aesthetic Paradigms in University Education of Arts”. Proceedings of the First National Convention of University Education of Arts. Tehran: University of Art Press, 2014, pp. 247-266.
2014 “Story of Life” (A Note on the Fiftieth Issue of Hamshahri Journal of Fiction). Hamshahri Journal of Fiction, No. 50, 2014.
2013 “An Introductory Note on Poverty Studies” (co-authored by G. Zulfaghari). History Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 17, 2013.
2013 “A Story from Two Perspectives: A Comparative Study of Film and Fiction Versions of Asrar Ganj Darreh Jenni”, in Semiotics and Criticism of Contemporary Fiction: Ebrahim Golestan and Jalal Al Ahmad, Edited by Leyla Sadeghi. Tehran: Sokhan Publishers, 2013.
2013 “Experience of Love on the Pavement of Text”. Saay Bar Madareh Andooh: Some Notes on Mostafa Mastoor’s Fiction. Tehran: Beh Negar Publication, 2013, pp. 17-38.
2013 “Hybridity in Postcolonial Theory: A Case Study of Roman Polanski’s The Pianist” (co-authored by M. Farahmandfar). Journal of Dramatic Arts and Music, No. 6, 2013, pp. 63-73.
2013 “Us and Postmodernism”. Cinema and Literature Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 39, 2013, pp. 178-183.
2012 “Towards a New Definition of Comparative Literature and Criticism”. Literary Research Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 38, 2012, pp. 115-138.
2012 “Eight Frames of Everyday Life: Virginia Woolf’s Kew Gardens”. Film Magazine, Vol. 22, 2012, pp. 224-225.
2012 “Diasporic Experience and Child’s Imagination: A Reading of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire”. Immigration in Literature and Art. Tehran: Sokhan Publication, 2012, pp. 135-153.
2012 “Free Indirect Discourse and Its Significance in Narrative Stylistics: Comparative Study of Modernnist and Premodernist Fiction”, (with Mohammad Ghaffary), Critical Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 5, No. 9, Autumn and Winter 2012, 85-117.
2012 “Free Indirect Discourse in Hossein Sanapour’s Lab Bar Tigh”, (with Mohammad Ghaffary), Contemporary World Literature Journal, Winter 2012, Vol. 16, No. 4, 91-106.
2012 “History, Language and Narrative”. Monthly Book of History and Geography, No. 171, 2012, pp. 10-16.
2012 “Landscapes of Split Identities: In-Between by Shay (Shaghayegh) Mazloom”, Catalogue for Photography Exhibition by Shay Mazloom, Atbin Gallery, Tehran, December 2012.
2012 “Rumi and Pop Art”. Academic Research on Mawlana (Rumi), No. 4, 2012, pp. 159-175.
2012 “Social Role of Popular Literature and Art”. Cinema and Literature, No. 34, 2012, pp. 158-159.
2012 “Some Notes on the What-ness, How-ness and Why-ness of Literary Criticism in Iran’s Universities”. Nameyeh Naghd, No. 7, 2012, p. 1.
2012 “Textual Love: Experience of Love in Mostafa Mastour’s Love on the Pavement”, Literary Criticism Journal, Vol. 5, No. 18, Summer 2012, 97-117.
2012 “David Lynch’s The Elephant Man”. Andisheyeh Pouya, No. 6, 2012, pp 179.
2012 “Function of Humanities Theories Is Not to Predict”. Bahar Daily News Paper, No. 71, 2012, pp. 15-16.
2011 “A Comparative Study of Ahmad Mahmoodi’s The Fig Tree and Don DeLillo’s the Body Artist” (co-authored by N. Esmaeilpour). Dehkhoda Journal of IA University, No. 8, 2011.
2011 “Deconstruction of Love in Saadi’s Sonnets”. Saadi Shenasi: Journal of Saadi Foundation, No. 4, 2011.
2011 “Post-War Discourse in The Night Bus” (co-authored by F. Benvidi). Naam Avard: Twenty Critical Studies and Notes on Semiotic Studies of Iran-Iraq War. Tehran: Sureyeh Mehr Publication, 2011.
2011 “Huckleberry Finn: Innocence and Experience”. Cinema and Literature, No. 29, 2011, pp. 141-142.
2011 “Diaspora and the Paradox of Sameness and Difference”. Cultural Semiotics. Tehran: Sokhan Publication, 2011.
2011 “Polyphonic, Contrapuntal and Deconstructive Readings”. Dialogism in Literature and Art. Tehran: Sokhan Publication, 2011.
2011 “Semiotic Analysis of Kashan’s Historical Houses”. Danesh Nama, No. 191-192, 1390, pp. 49-61.
2011 “Time in Postmodern Literature”, Trans. Leila Naderi. Zaribar: A Cultural, Literary and Social Quarterly, Vol. 22 and 23, No. 75 and 76, 2011, pp. 171-178.
2011 “Amiro and the Tension Between Culture and Nature: A Semiotic Ideological Analysis of The Runner and Water, Wind and Dust”. Mehrnameh, No. 12, 2011, pp. 243-244.
2011 “Andre Brink’s Other Lives: An Account of Africana Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (co-authored by Zakaria Bezdoodeh). Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 3, No. 6, 2011.
2010 “An Introductory Note on Semiotics and Urban Space”. Sureh Andisheh, No. 50 and 51, 2010, pp. 197-198.
2010 “Challenges of Interdisciplinary Approach”. Ayeeneh Newsletter of Shahid Beheshti University, No. 16-17, 2010, pp. 40-42.
2010 “Narrative and Children’s Literature”, Children’s Novels: Ideas and Challenges, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2010.
2009 “Transtextuality and Semiotics of Cinematic Opening Credits”, in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on the Semiotics of Arts and the Semiotics of Cinema, edited by Manijeh Kangarani (Tehran: Iranian Academy of Arts, 2009), pp. 251-295.
2008 “Jacques Derrida and the Paradoxes of Literary language”, Kargozaran Newspaper, August 2008, p. 10.
2008 “Semiotic Analysis of Kashan’s Historical Houses”, Nameh Honar: Arts University Quarterly, No. 2, Special Issue on Architecture and Urban Planning, Spring 2008, pp. 111-127.
2008 “Poststructuralist Semiotics: Methodology of Deconstructing Artistic Text”, Proceeding of the Third Conference of Semiotics of Arts, ed. Farhad Sasani (Tehran: Academy of Arts, 2008), pp. 193-212.
2007 “Poststructuralist Semiotics: Methodology of Deconstructing Artistic Text”, Khanesh Literary Quarterly, No. 5, Vol. 2, Spring 2007, pp. 11-18.
2007 “Review of Introduction to Literary Schools”, (report on a round-table discussion), Ketabe Mah Adabyat, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 41-56.
2007 “Urban Subject in the Paradox of Being Lost and Found: A Reading of Paul Auster’s Works”, Tazeh: Cultural Social Quarterly, No. 3, March 2007, pp. 24-25.
2007 “The Meaning of Our Lives is the Outcome of Our Narratives”, Etemad Newpaper, Sepetmber 2007, p. 20.
2007 “Reading Ricardo Zippoli’s Photography Exhibition: Venice in Windows”, Ayineh Khyal: Research Monthly, No. 5, March 2007, pp. 40-45.
2007 “Reading of Bahram Bayzaee’s Dramataic Production, Afra”, Ayineh Khyal: Research Monthly, No. 4, February 2007, pp. 44-49.
2007 “From Semiotics to Deconstruction of Photography”, Academy of Arts Research Journal, No. 5, October and November 2007, pp. 99-116.
2007 “Derrida and Paradoxes of Literary Language”, Proceeding of the Conferences on Barthes and Derrida (Tehran: Academy of Arts, 2007), pp. 223-231.
2007 “The Concept of the Other in Jacques Derrida’s Thought”, Proceedings of The Self According to the Other: Fourth of the Comparative Literature Conference (Tehran: Tehran University Press, 2007).
2006 “Labyrinthine City in Labyrinthine Text: A Semiotic Study”, Proceeding of the Second Semiotics of Arts Conference (Tehran: Academy of Arts, 2006), pp. 213-230.
2006 “Sing According to Derrida”, Academy of Arts Research Journal, No. 1, Feb-Mar 2006, pp. 22-32.
2006 “History, Language and Narrative”, Humanities Resaerch Journal, Shahid Beheshti University, No. 52, Winter 2006, pp. 305-318.
2005 “Deconstructing Romantic Artistic Imagination”, in Proceeding of the First Artistic Imagination Conference (Tehran: Academy of Arts, 2005), pp. 235-246.
2005 “History and Literature in the light of New Historicism”, in On Literary History (Tehran: Samt, 2005), pp. 90-98.
2005 “Persian Literature in Britain and America”, in Water’s Mirror: Comparative Literature, ed. Bahman Namvar Motlagh (Tehran: Hamshahri, 2005), pp. 169-179.
2005 “Alfred Lord Tennyson and Persian Poetry”, in Water’s Mirror: Comaparative Literature, ed. Bahman Namvar Motlagh (Tehran: Hamshahri, 2005), pp. 209-223.
2005 “Edward Fitzgerald and Rubayat Khayam”,  in Water’s Mirror: Comaparative Literature, ed. Bahman Namvar Motlagh (Tehran: Hamshahri, 2005), pp. 225-235.
2005 “Thomas More and Laleh Rokh”, in Water’s Mirror: Comaparative Literature, ed. Bahman Namvar Motlagh (Tehran: Hamshahri, 2005), pp. 237-246.
2004 “Translation according to Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida”, Ketabe Mah Adabyat va Falsafeh, No. 78, Vol. 7, March 2004, pp. 42-49.
2004 “Poststructuralist Semiotics: Deconstruction in Peter Eisenman’s Architecture”, in Proceeding of the First Semiotics of Arts Conference, ed. Farzan Sojoodi (Tehran: Academy of Arts, 2004), pp. 41-57.
2004 “Visual and Verbal Signs in Children’s Literature”, (report on a round-table discussion), Ketabe Mah Koudak va Nojavan, No. 83, Vol. 7, September 2004, pp. 18-39.
2004 “Holy and Magical Images in Children’s Literature”, (report on a round-table discussion), Ketabe Mah Koudak va Nojavan, No. 84, Val. 7, October 2004, pp. 91-107.
2003 “Introducing Deconstruction (Derrida, Borges, Don Quixote)”, Ketabe Mah Adabyat va Falsafeh, No. 67, Vol. 6, Appril 2003, pp. 50-59.
2003 “Raymond Carver: Mixing Chekhov and Hemingway”, (report on a round-table discussion), Ketabe Mah Adabyat va Falsafeh, No. 73, Vol. 7, November 2003, pp. 4-19.
2003 “Paradoxical Logic of Jacques Derrida’s Thought”, Humanities Resaerch Journal, Shahid Beheshti University, No. 39-40, Autumn and Winter 2003, pp. 119-128.
2001 “Meaning always at the Threshold”, Jame-Jam Newspaper, No. 510, February 2001, p. 8.