DISSERTATIONS/THESES

PhD Dissertations

Mohyeddin Ghomshei, Shadi. “A Rationalist Map of Man: A Comparative Reading of Sa’di and Alexander Pope”. Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisors: Leila Baradaran Jamili and Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2020.

Tavousi, Sohrab. “The Study of Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology in Vladimir Nabokov’s Selected Novels”.Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisors: Shohreh Chavoshiyan and Niusha Ahmadi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- North Tehran Branch, 2020.

Amanolahi Baharvand, Peyman. “Anthropocentrism vs Biocentrism: Postcolonial-Ecocriticism and Deep Ecology in the Selected Works of Native American Renaissance Novelists”. Diss. Supervisor: Bakhtiar Sadjadi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- North Tehran Branch, 2020.

Banifatemi, Maliheh al-Sadat. “Improvisation: Unreliable Narrators through Politico-Cultural Strategies in the Selected Novels of Jean-Paul Sartre and Iris Murdoch”. Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisors: Shohreh Chavoshiyan and Leila Baradaran Jamili. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- North Tehran Branch, 2020.

Rahimi Bagha, Sussan. “Transculturation, Cross-fertilization, and Ressentiment: Creolization in the Ideological Plays of LeRoi Jones”. Diss. Supervisor: Leila Baradaran Jamili. Advisors: Jalal Sokhanvar and Bahman Zarrinjooee. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Science and Research Branch, 2020.

Taheri, Saman. “The bond between philosophy and mysticism in the poems of Hopkins and Rumi from the perspective of Spinoza’s theory”. Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2020.

Abtahi, Seyed Vahid. “Archeology of Postmodern Skepticism in Selected Works of John Barth”

Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisors: Zahra Bordbari and Bahman Zarrinjooee. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Science and Research Branch, 2020.

Khalili Teilami, Fahimeh. “Speaking Muslim Subaltern through the Ethical Agent in Shakespeare and the Holy Quran”. Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Science and Research Branch, 2020.

Ahmadi, Ali. “Althusser-Fanon Dialectic in Ishmael Reed’s Selected Novels”. Diss. Supervisor: Azita Aryan. Advisors: Jalal Sokhanvar and Negar Sharif. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2020.

Matin Parsa, Lida. “Post-9-11 Literature: The Unreliable Narrators of Time, Cognition, and Terror”. Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisors: Negar Sharif and Narges Montakhabi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2019.

Nabizadeh, Rakhshandeh. “Narratives of Madness in William Shakespeare’s Major Tragedies” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2018.

Pourazar, Roya. “Postdramaticality and the Performance of Dialogic Self in Contemporary Theater since 1980” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh and Alireza Jafari. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2016.

Chavoshian, Shohreh. “The Representation of Female Subjectivity in the Plays of Harold Pinter” Diss. Supervisor: Kian Soheil. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar and Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Eshaghi, Ehsaneh. ” Cyborg Discourse: A Dromological-Panoptical Reading of H.G.Wells’s Selected Science Fiction” Diss. Supervisor: Kian Soheil. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Sadati, Seyed Shahabeddin. “Dissident Subcultures and Universal Dissindence in Imamu Amiri Baraka’s Selected Literary Works” Diss. Supervisor: Alireza Jafari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar and Hamid Marashi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Aryan, Azita. ” Poetics of Becoming:A Deleuzean Readingof Shakespeare’s Major Plays” Diss. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar and Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Fakhrshafaie, Nahid. “Conservative Postmodernism: A Political Reading of Paul Auster’s Novels” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Alireza Jafari and Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2013.

Pashaee, Roshanak. “Subversion and Subservience in the Modern Fairy Tale: A Comparative Study of English and Iranian Tales for Children” Diss. Supervisor: Kian Soheil. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2013.

Rajabi, Erfan. “Critical Discourse Analysis and Toni Morrison’s Novels: The Politics and Poetics of Identity Formation” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh and Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2013.

Yamout Zavareh, Tayebeh. “Being of Literature in Blanchot, Derrida, and Nancy: A Trace of Retrait” Diss. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar and Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2013.

Bordbari, Zahra. “The Subaltern Can Speak: Female Representation in Buchi Emecheta’s Selected Novels” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian and Sima Farshid. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Farshid, Sima. “Foucaulolion Study: Acts of Subversion in Toni Morrison’s Novels” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian and Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Noorollahi-Ravari, Mohammadreza. ” A Deconstructive Reading of Five Major Feminist Novels by African-American Women Writers” Diss. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzade. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar and Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Sahranavard, Neda. “Traumatized Bodies in the Works of Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh and Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Shafieyan, Mahdi. “The ‘Metaphysics of Presence’ and Contemporary American Poetry Performance” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian and Abdollah Baradaran. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Sharif, Negar. ” Theatricalization of Female Experience: A Poststructuralist Feminist Study of Susan Sontag’s Fiction” Diss. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar and Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Rouhvand, Hassan. “A Cultural Reading of Space in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Narratives” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian and Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Takapoui, Tina. “Feminine Spacingin Selected Dramatic Works of Christopher Marlowe: Text as Body” Diss. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Shideh Ahmadzade and Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

MA Theses

Ebrahimzadeh Tabrizi, Sogand. “Fredric Jameson’s Pastiche & Schizophrenia In J.G Ballard’s selected Short Stories” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2019.

Hormozian, Ayda. “Poetics of Becoming: The Rhizomatic Cartography in Robert Coover’s Works: The Origin of the Brunists and the Universal Baseball Association,Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2019.

Hosseini, Sepideh. “Other and the Trauma of the Real in Douglas Coupland’s Worst. Person. Ever. (2012) under the Light of Jacques Lacan” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2019.

Mohamadian, Betsabeh.”Investigating Identity in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog and In the Blood under the light of Post colonialism from view of Bhabha” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2018.

Hosseini-nejhad, Nastaran. ” A Study of Time in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Four Quartets In light of Maurice Blanchot” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2016.

Keramat, Maral. ” A Study of Nature in Hallaj’s and Emerson’s Mysticismin the Light of Plato’s Theories of Forms and Ideas” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2016.

Kojasteh Mehrabi. “A Cultural Reading of Two Selected Novels (Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Farming of Bones) of Edwidge Danticat in the Light of Stuart Hall’s Theory of Identity” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2016.

Shams Nosrati, Moein. ” The Study of A Song of Ice and Fire in Light of Louis Althusser’s Theory of Ideology” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2016.

Sotoodeh Nejad Nematollahi, Nazanin Fatemeh. “Narratology in Magical Realism: A  Study of The Lovely Bones and The House of the Spirits” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2016.

Alemzadeh, Sanaz. “An Investigation into Alterity Theory: A Levinasian Reading of William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

AleShafiei, Seyedeh Roghayeh. “A Deleuzean Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

Alinaghizade Talaie, Mona. “The Self/Otherness and Occident/Orient Dualism: A Saidian Comparative Reading of George Lamming’s Water with Berries and Firoozeh Dumas’s Funny in Farsi” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Hassan Shahabi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

Barzanji, Mohammad Sirvan. ” Diaspora and the Formation of Identity: A Bhabhaian Reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Bakhtiar Sajadi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

Ganjtalab, Parvaneh. “Aboriginal discourse: A comparative study of the Cake Man by Robert Merritt and the Dreamers by Jack Davis” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

Kiaee, Iman. ” Baudrillardian Reading of Samuel Shepard’s Family Quintet” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Bakhtiar Sajadi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

Mazandarani, Hanieh. “An Investigation into Social Interest: An Adlerian Critical Reading of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler in the light of Psychoanalytical Feminism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Razieh Eslamieh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

Mousavi, Akram. “A Comparative Study of Narrative Structure in ‘Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor’ and John Barth’s The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2015.

Aghaamou, Maryam Alsadat. “A Feminist Study of Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Aramnia, Nadia. “Julia Kristeva’s Concept of the Semiotic in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Bakhtiar Sajadi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Azvari Gahroee, Maryam. ” A Study of the Concepts ‘Unity’, ‘Individuality’ and ‘Microcosm’ in Emerson’s Selected Poems” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Alireza Jafari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Bigdeli. Marziyeh. “A Psychoanalytic Reading of Gayl Jones Corregidora under the light of Trauma Theories” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Azam Mirhadi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Haji, Mojgan. “A Foucauldian Reading of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Shafiei, Mehraban. “A Deleuzoguattarian Study of Samuel Johnson’s works: An Analysis of Subjectivity in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia ” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Shahedi, Mahdieh. “A Foucauldian Study of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with Dragon Tattoo, the Girl Who Played with Fire, the Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest In Terms of Surveillance, Normalization and Resistance” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Azam Mirhadi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2014.

Akhgarandouz, Siranoush. ” A Foucauldian Study of R. K. Narayan’s Malgudi Days (1982)” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Moslem Zolfagharkhani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Beshartdeh, Maryam. ” A Study of Toni Morrison’s Novel Song of Solomon under the Light of Magic Realism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Dianoosh Sanei. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Esmkhani, Farnaz. “Investigating Trauma in Narrating the History of World War I:A Psychoanalytical Reading of Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Another World” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Bakhtiar Sajadi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Ghiyaee, Samira. “Narrative Psychology in John Barth’s Chimera” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Kazemi, Somayeh. ” Politics of Violence: Tormented Body in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians Under the Light of Hannah Arendt’s Theories” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Azita Aryan. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Najarian. Hanieh. “A Derridean Reading of Two Novels by Iris Murdoch: Under the Net and The Message to the Planet” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Alireza Jafari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Raeisian, Mona. “A Postmodernist Overview of Grand Narratives In the Short Fiction of Ray Bradbury” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Negar Sharif. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Salarvand, shayda. ” ‘Mimicry’, ‘Reverse Mimicry’ and ‘Hybridity’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Once in a Lifetime, Year’s End and Going Ashore” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Dianoosh Sanei. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Shamskolahi, Shayan. ” Ideology and Mythopoeia in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Siavoshi, Nazanin. “The Quest for Racial Identity in Toni Morrison’s Songs of Solomon under the light of Derridean Deconstruction” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Hassan Shahabi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2013.

Farmani, Somaye. ” A Foucauldian Study of August Wilson’s Fences and Piano Lesson” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Tina Takapoui. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Ghaderi Gharehshiran, Afsaneh. “A Deleuzian Reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Slow Learner” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Azita Aryan. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Gholami, Soudabe. “A Foucauldian Reading of Julian Barnes’s Nothing to Be Frightened of and Arthur and George” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Azam Mirhadi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Ghoreishi, Fereshteh. “A Kristevan Reading of Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone and Jerusalem the Golden” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Naeimeh Tabatabae. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Mirzaie,Rosa. “A Study of Kepesh Trilogy by Philip Roth Under the light of Cultural Studies” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Azam Mirhadi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Mosalla, Samira. “Un/translatability of Sa’di’s Poems from the Perspective of Frame Semantics at Word Level” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Sasan Baleghizadeh. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2012.

Parvaneh, Shamam Morteza. “A Study of Max Weber’s Idea of ‘Social Status’ in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and I Am Charlotte Simmons” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Tamadoni, Alireza. “A Study of Metafiction in Dame Antonia Susan Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Azam Mirhadi . Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Teimouri Oghaz, Samaneh. “A Feminist Study of Maya Angelous’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Yavarian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Ziaei, Somayyeh. “A Study of Fluid Identity of Female Diaspora in Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee and Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2012.

Alambeigi, Sara.”Schizoanalytic and Rhizoanalytic Study of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Yavarian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Asghari, Parvaneh. “A Feminist Study of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani . Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Atri, Mahsa. “A Magical Realist Reading of Ben Okris The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment in Relation to Bakhtinian Criticism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. T Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Ekradi, Ehsan. “A Postcolonial Approach to Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat and Alan Paton’s Cry, The Beloved Country” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Hassanpour Chaleshtari, Sara. “A Study of Concepts of Reticence and Revelation in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop under the light of New Criticism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Gholam Abbas Zolfaghari . Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Karimi, Zahra. ” ‫A Feminism Study of The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest by Lillian Hellman‪” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Azita Aryan. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Khalili Jahromi, Sara. “Analysis of Narrative in Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar of Richard Brautigan” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Khani Pour, Maryam. “A Cultural Study of Jane Austen’s Emma and Mansfield Park” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Nahid Mohammadi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Mohyeddin Ghomshei, Shadi. “Platonic Aesthetics and Philosophy in the Poetry of Kathleen Raine” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Alireza Jafari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2011.

Simindokht, Seyedfatah. “A Deconstructive Reading of the Translation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Positive Response to the Call of the Other” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2011.

Allahyari, Keyvan. “The Postcolonial ‘Writing Back’ in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2010.

Kandehkar, Zahra. “A Study of Stream of Consciousness in Beckett’s Trilogy and Dali’s Two Paintings” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2010.

Kia, Zohreh. “A Study of the Notion of Visual Art in the Works of W.B. Yeats” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Alireza Jafari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2010.

Moein Kharazi, Maryam. “A Postcolonial Approach on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Naeimeh Tabatabae. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2010.

Shamseddin Khorrami, Mohammad Reza. “Ideologically Charged Translation and Global Image by Mass Media” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Hussein Mollanazar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2010.

Bolourieh, Farzaneh “A Hyperreal Reading of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury: A Baudrillardian Reading” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Kian Soheil. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2009.

Farahman, Farnoosh. “Byronic Hero in American Twentieth-Century Novel (Light in August and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2009.

Haji Mola Hossein, Shohreh. “Archetypal Quest of Heroes in Tolkien’s Trilogy The Lord of the Rings” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Nahid Mohammadi. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2009.

Mohaghegh Neyshabouri, Safaneh. “Foucauldian Concept of Power in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2009.

Moradi, Arash. “A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View and Where Angels Fear to Tread” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2009.

Nakisa, Ali. “Machiavellianism, Power and Subversian in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2009.

Naseri Pilehdaragh, Nader. “A Subaltern Study of Kim and Passages to India from Spivak’s Critical Standpoint” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Alireza Jafari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2009.

Safdari, Farnaz. “Hybridity in Diasporic Translation: A Case Study of Translations from Persian into English” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Hussein Mollanazar. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2009.

Varmazyari, Hamid. “Ideological Effects and Discourse Shifts in Translation: A Critical Discourse Analysis” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Hussein Mollanazar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2009.

Ashrafkhani, Babak. “A Cultural Materialist Study of Edward Bond’s The Fool, Bingo, and Narrow Road to the Deep North” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Sarah Catherine Ilkhani. ehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2008.

Bahmanpour, Bahareh. “A Spivakian Study of Joyce’s Dubliners” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Kian Soheil. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2008.

Farrokhi, Majid. “An Existentialist Study of Alienation in Eliot’s Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Abolghasem Fatemi Jahromi. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2008.

Gholami, Shima. “Strategies Applied in the Translations of Culture Specific Items in Rumi’s Work” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2008.

Khadivi, Mahsa. “Trends of Magic Realism in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2008.

Sadati, Seyed Shahabeddin. “Narcissistic Narration in Martin Amis’s Major Novels” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2008.

Saei Dibavar, Sara. “A Study of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights Based on Julia Kristeva’s Psychoanalytic Ideas” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2008.

Tofighi, Fatemeh. “Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: An Iserian Reading” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2008.

Akhavizadeghan, Raheleh. “A Dialogical Reading of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer and Inadmissible Evidence” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Abolghasem Fatemi Jahromi. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2007.

Aliabadi, Zahra. “A Marxist Reading of Charles Dickens’s Major Novels: Hard Times and Oliver Twist” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2007.

Aminian Rahkesh, Maryam. ” Feministic Approach to Alice Walker’s Fictions” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Derakhshanfar, Atefeh. “Postcolonialism in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Life & Times of Michael K” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Kian Soheil. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Falah Pour, Soulmaz. “A Sociological Approach of Three Plays of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menageries” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Hahjihjat Shahmarasi, Mina. “A Semiotic Reading of Harlod Pinter’s The Birthday Party and Ashes to Ashes” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2007.

Jalali, Kaveh. ” A Lukācsian Study of Two Historical Novels: Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Gustave Flaubert’s Salammbo” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Kaviani, Somaye. “A Psychoanalytic (Kristevan) Study of McEwan’s Novels” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Malek Mohammadi, Taleb. “Frank O’Hara’s Poetry under the Influence of Action Painting” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Sayeh Meysami. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Montakhabi, Narges. “Scheherzade Is Betrayed; Demystification and Subversion of Mythology in Barth’s Chimera: A de Manian Reading” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2007. َ

Sabzian Moradabadi, Said.” Poetics of Postmodernism in Peter Ackryd’s Fiction: A Genre Study” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Negar Sharif. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Samadi Rendi, Leila. “Self-Destructiveness of Samuel Beckett’s Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Shams Beygi, Nasim “A Study of Metafiction in Donald Barthelme’s Major Works” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2007.

Babakhani, Jacqueline. “Religion And History in the Ecclesiastical Sonnets of William Wordsworth” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Sayeh Meysami. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Dierdar, Saeed. “A Comparative Study of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Manouchehr Haghighi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Farshchian, Farnoush. “The Sociological Study of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Alireza Farahbakhsh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Haami, Shabnam. “A Feministic Study of Three Novels of Tony Morrison: The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Song of ‎Solomon” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Nahid Jalali. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Islami, Jabar. “Self and Alterity in Finnegans Wake” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Sayeh Meysami. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Javadi, Zohreh. “A Gender Study of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening in the Light of Showalter’s Theory of Gynocriticism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2006.

Kamali Vin, Mehdi. “Maxwell Anderson’s Barefoot in Athens: A Director’s Reading” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Kian Soheil. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2006.

Kazemi, Sanaz. “A Comparative Study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Ralph Waldo Emerson in Terms of Nature” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Madani, Samaneh, “Re-reading Harry Potter based on Trans-modernism and Vico’s Historical Cycles Theory” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Mafakheri, Abbas. “Willa Cather’s My Antonia through Psychoanalytic Criticism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Mohebi, Shaghayegh. “‏A Feminist Study of Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Kian Soheil. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Nazari, Sarbas. “A Semiotic Reading of Shakespeare’s Macbeth Based on Jack Gold’s Performance” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2006.

Omidi, Hossein. “Tracing the Motifs of Repetition of Mourning, Melancholia, and aggressiveness in Alfred Edward Houseman’s A Shropshire Lad: A Psychoanalytic approach” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Rabei Pour, Sanaz. “Dramatization of a New American Identity in August Wilson’s The Fences” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2006.

Abodalizadeh, Moloud. “A Feminist Approach to Major Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2005.

Adeli, Mojdeh. “Top Stoppard’s Vision of God, Man’s Existence, and Morality in Rosencrantz and Guldenstren Are Dead and Jumpers” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2005.

Behnoud, Saeid. “Naturalism, Pessimism and Cynicism in Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, Tess of d’Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Abolghasem Fatemi Jahromi. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2005.

Bozorgmehr, Ghazaal. “A Development of the Self: An Archetypal Approach on Flannery O’Conner’s Stories” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Abolghasem Fatemi Jahromi. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2005.

Digehsara, Shahram. “Traces of Foucauldian Power in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Kian Soheil. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2005.

Golzadeh‌Gheshlaghchai, Azita. “A Comparative Study of the Major Works of Edgar Allan Poe and Sadegh Hedayat under the light of Exponential” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Siros Ghazaei. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2005.

Jalalifarahanl, Maryam. “The Role of the Reader- Response Criticism in Lord Jim” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2005.

Jannessari Ladani, Zahra. “A Dialogic Study of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Light in August” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2005.

Keivanani, Leila.” A Socio-political Study of Three Plays by John Arden” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Siros Ghazaei. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2005.

Moallemian, Roxana. “Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson’s Poetry from Roger Fowler’s Linguistic Point of View” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2005.

Omaraee Hamedani, Arezu. “Traces of Postmodernism in the Selected Works by Margaret Atwood” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2005.

Shiekh, Roxana. “The Concept of Imagination in the Selected Poems of Coleridge and Shelley” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Fazel Asadi. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2005.

Abdollahi, Maryam. “A Study of George Bernard Shaw’s Anti-Romanticism in the light of of Marxist-Realist Theories” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Abolghasem Fatemi Jahromi. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2004.

Eslamieh, Razieh. ” Poststructuralism in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‏” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2004

Kafi, Leili. “Nabokov and Hitchcock: A Quest for Signs” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2004.

Kord Bacheh Changi, Atefeh. “An Analysis of View of Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster and George Orwell Concerning British Imperialism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2004.

Pour Javaherian, Nasim. “A Study of Archetypal Patterns of Good and Evil, Order and Chaos in Tolkien’s Trilogy The Lord of the Rings” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2004.

Radmanesh, Nazanin. “Man and Superman: A Study of George Bernard Shaw’s Three Major Plays in the Light of Nietzsche’s Philosophy” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2004.

Rafi, Haleh. “A New Historicist Reading of E.L.Doctorow’s Ragtime and Billy Bathgate” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2004.

Rostami, Arpi. “A Socio-historical Study of Thomas Hardy’s Short Stories” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2004.

Sahami, Baharak. “A Dialogic Study of Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2004.

Yamout Zavareh, Tayebeh. “A Study of Metafiction in Three Works of John Fowles” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2004.

Azin, Afsoom. “The Study of Dilemma in Samuel Beckett’s Novels in the light of Zen Buddhism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Bakhtiari, Masoomeh. “A Psycho-socio Analysis of Thomas Hardy’s Novels” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Dabaghi, Cedigheh. “Spiritual Homelessness in Eugene O’Neill’s Plays: Mourning Becomes Electra and Long Day’s Journey into Night” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Gharmeh, Mehri. “The Image of Woman in Thomas Hardy’s Three Major Novels” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Ghavami, Mehranz. “Radical Modernism and Sexuality in D.H. Lawrence’s Three Major works : Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Woman in Love” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Sayeh Meysami. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Hosseini, Maryam. “A Comparative Study of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Jami, Reza. “A Study of Minimalism in Raymond Carvers’s Short Stories” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Siros Ghazaei. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Mirzaie Hosseinzadeh, Naghme. “A Symbolic Analysis of W.B. Yeat’s Poems” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Mohammadi, Nahid. “John Ashbery’s Poetry in the light of Deconstruction” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University, 2003.

Rafizadeh, Makan. “A Comparative Study of Naturalism in Jude the Obscure and The Patient Stone” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Shahjani, Roksana. “Platonism and Neo-Platonism in Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and The First Book of Urizen and Keats’ Endymion and Two Hyperions” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Tahmacebpour, Hamideh. “The Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Four Major Novels under the light of Postmodernism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Takapoui, Tina. “A Psychoanalytic Study of Individual Selfness and Subjectivity in Winesburg, Ohio” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Zamani Gavani, Zahra. “Exponential Approach to the Concepts of Sin and Evil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Selected Short Stories”. MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2003.

Amiri Yarahmadi, Baharak. “The Concept of Modern Tragedy in O’Neill’s Major Works” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2002.

Amouzadeh, Farshad. “Robinson Jeffers’ Notion of Endurance in a Deterministic World as Embodied in Tamar” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2002.

Emadipour, Hilda. “The Study of Mythic Nature of Sylvia Plath’s Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2002.

Golestani, Rana. “A Formalistic Study of Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2002.

Hartoonian, Alen. “Ritualization of Death in Hemingway’s Major Works” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2002.

Sanati, Magnolia. “A Study of the Social Morality of the Victorian Age in Three Novels of Charles Dickens” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2002.

Shamshirgar, Feriyal. “A Study of Women in Two Major George Bernard Shaw’s Plays” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2002.

Daemi Baghban, Shahram. “A Study of Myths and Archetypes in Golding’s Novels” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Ghaderi, Amir Naser. “A Comparative Study of James Joyce’s Epiphanies’ and William Wordsworth’s Spots of Time” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Ghazanfari, Nastran. “A Feminist Study of Toni Morrison Novels: Sula and Beloved” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Golkhosravi, Mehrad. “A Comparative Study of Walt Whitman’s and Jalal Al-din Mohammad Rumi’s Poetry in Relation to Mysticism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Ghotbi, Roya. “Symbolism in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Heraner, Sarvenaz. “Nature in Alexander Popes, William Wordsworth’s and William Carlos William’s Major Poems” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Kadem Bagha, Elaheh. “Transcendentalism in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in the light of Zen Buddhism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Siros Ghazaei. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Nilchian, Elham. “Between Polarities: Study of Binary Oppositions in Keats’s Major Poems” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Seyed Razavi, Parisa. “A Study of the Concepts of Time and Wealth in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s Major Novels” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Zargarian, Kiyandokht. “A Study of the Vision of Reality in Yeat’s Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2001.

Abassifard, Farshad. “Death and Immortality in Emily Dickson’s Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Abaszadeh, Banafsheh Sadat. “Walt Whitman’s poetry in the light of Zen Buddhism” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Behzad Saleki. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Amir Farahani, Ali. “A Psychological Study of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Bagherzadeh, Nafiseh. “Society and Nature in Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and Woman in Love Lawrence’s Three Major Novels” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Shideh Ahmadzadeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Dorostkar, Vajiheh. ” Mythological Analysis of the Odyssey under the light of Psychoanalytic Criticism of Jung” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Ebrahimi, Atosa. “The Study of Language and Style Of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Zoo Story and The American Dream” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Sious Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Eyvazi, Mojgan. “Characterization in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories: A Feminist Approach” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Jahani, Soheila. “Reality and Illusion in Edward Albee’s Major Works” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Kazemi, Nima. “The Comparative Study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Edgar Allan Poe as Romantic Poets as well as a Dramatized Version of Two Poems: The Raven” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Khosropanah,Shadi. “The Impact of Impressionism on Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim Two Greatest Works of Conrad” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Mehran, Maryam. “The Political Aspects of W.H.Auden’s Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Najafpour‌ Navaei, Reza. “Comparative Survey of Tess d’Urbervilles and Temple Drake as Victims of Fate” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Rasoolidanesh, Fatemeh. “The Contribution of E.M. Forster and Henry James to Criticism of Fiction” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Sarrafi, Azadeh. “Impact of Buddhist Teachings on Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Amirali Nojoumian. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Shahnazari, Aylin. “Female Identity: A Feminist Approach to Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Vinegar Tom, and A Mouthful of Birds“. MA Thesis. Supervisor: Farhad Nazerzade Kermani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 2000.

Akbari, Mina. “Concept of Time in Eugene O’Neill” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Azimpour Charandabi, Masumeh. “The Interrelations of Imagination and Reality in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Ebrahimpanahi, Atosa. “A Study of Disintegration of Family unit in Edward Albee’s Plays: The Sandbox, The American Dream, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and A Delicate Balance” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Eslami Torbati, Zahra. “Determinism in Three of O’Neill’s Plays” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Hadidifard, Payam. “A Critical Analysis of Language and Character in The Secret Agent” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Kebriti, Forozan. “Identity Crisis: A Study of Henrik Ibsen’s Four Plays” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Farhad Nazerzade Kermani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Mozafarsani Azar, Mahdi. “Passion and Violence in Tennessee Williams” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Sistanipour, Nushin. “The Study of Grotesque in August Strindberg’s Major Plays” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Soleymani, Alireza. “The Spiritual Development in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Mohammadali Roshanzamir. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Yaghoobi Masihi, Claudia. “Man at the Mercy of Mysterious Forces in Eugene O’Neill” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Yeganehpour, Shahram. “A Stylistic Analysis of John Keats’s Odes” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1999.

Baba Ali Pour, Roshan. “Social Frustration in Osborne’s Works” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Chavoshian, Shohreh. “A Thematic Study of the Late Plays of Harold Pinter” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: University of Tehran, 1998.

Darabi, Gilda. “The Study of Speech Communication Problem in Samuel Beckett’s Plays” Endgame, All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp’s Last Tape, and Happy Days” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Farhad Nazerzade Kermani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Darvishi, Farideh. “To the Lighthouse as A Poetic and Elegiac Novel” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Alireza Jafari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Foroozani, Mohammad. “Symbolic Images and Paradoxes in Conrad’s Works” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Jolfaei Ghadim, Farimah. “Gertrude Stein’s Style of Writing is Present Moment, is Repetition, and is Cubo-grammar” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Alireza Jafari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Irannejhad, Abdolrahman. “Saul Bellow as A Social Critic” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Kaviyani, Azar. “A Study of Symbolism in Ibsen’s Plays” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Kazemi Bavil Olyaei, Mahlagha. “Language: A Medium to Attain Power the Study of Language in the Plays of Harold Pinter” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Parvaneh Mojdeh. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Mirbozorgi, Majid. “A Study of Marlowe’s Major Characters by the Use of Machiavelli’s Ideas and Concepts” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Seyed Mohammad Zia Hosseini. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Mousavi Far, Mehrnaz. “The Concept of Beauty in a Selection of Poe’s Stories and Poems” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Seyed Mohammad Zia Hosseini. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Pakzad Manesh, Zahra. “A Study of Language and Symbolism in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Ranjbari, Mohammad Nabi. “The Concept of Self-conflict and individual versus Society in Three Novels of Saul Bellow” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Rooyani, Javad. ” The Theme of Death and Suicide in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Saboori, Hossein. “A Sociological and Feminist study of James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Mohammad Ali Roshanzamir. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Sadeghi Roya. “Expressionism in Eugene O’Neill’s Dramas” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Salemi, Atefeh. “A Journey from Semiotic to Symbolic” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Farhad Nazerzade Kermani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Shahbazi Rad Mohammad. “The Impact of Calvinistic Puritanism Upon Nathaniel Hawthorne” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Solgi, Gholamreza. “Literariness in Eliot’s The Waste Land” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Seyed Mohammad Zia Hosseini. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Yavarian, Reza. ” A Structuralistic Study on Female Characters in Eugene O’Neill’s Plays” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Siros Ghazaei. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1998.

Dabiri, Mahrokh. “Tragedy in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d’Urbervilles” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Advisor: Reza Didari. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1997.

Mahrami Zamani, Sima. ” ‘The Spluttering fire in the Wilderness of this World’ Traces of Romanticism in Saul Bellow’s Novel” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: University of Tehran, 1997.

Meghrazi, Morteza. “Wordsworth’s Philosophical Ideas” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Reza Didari. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1997.

Rastkar Mahmoodzadeh, AliAkbar. “A Study of Symbols and Allusions in James Joyce’s Dubliners” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Mohammad Ali Roshan Zamir. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1997.

Rustammi, Mohammad. “A Stranger Never At Rest. A Study of Sophocles’s Trilogy” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Farhad Nazerzadeh Kermani. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1997.

Simkesh, Abolfazl. “An Archetypal Explication of Tolkien’s Mythological Accounts of Middle Earth” MA Thesis. Supervisor: Siros Ghazaei. Advisor: Jalal Sokhanvar. Tehran: Islamic Azad University- Central Tehran Branch, 1995.

Dissertations (in Persian)

مقایسه ادبی و ساختاری برزونامه و بیوولف. دکتری تخصصی 1392. پدیدآور: بهجت تربتی نژاد. استادراهنما:علی اصغر حابی. استاد مشاور:جلال سخنور و مریم صادقی گیوی. دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی. واحد تهران مرکزی. دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی