Claudia Yaghoobi, PhD
Claudia Yaghoobi, PhD

Scholarship

Research and Publications

Peer Reviewed Monographs

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    Translating a Revolution: Voices of Armenian Women from Iran to the US. University of North Carolina Press, March 17, 2027.

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    Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora. Islamic and Middle East Studies: Diaspora and Transnationalism Series. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

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    Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature. Global Middle East Series. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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    Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism. Comparative Cultural Studies Series. Purdue University Press, 2017. (translated into Persian, 2021)

Peer-reviewed edited volume

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    The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment. Edited volume. Sex, Marriage and the Family in the Middle East series. IB Tauris/Bloomsbury Press, 2023.

Book Series Co-Editor

  • Sex, Marriage and Culture in the Middle East. Co-Editor with Janet Afary. Bloomsbury.

Special Issues, Edited

  • Iranian Minority Literary Women. In International Journal of Persian Literature. Co-Editor with Nasrin Rahimieh, 2019.
  • Literary Diasporas of Iran. In Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies. Co-Editor with Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, 2021.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. “Woman, Life, Freedom and the Unraveling of Iran’s Hypermasculine Governmentality: Gendered State Violence in The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Iran-Namag. Forthcoming, 2026.

  2. “Pedagogical Explorations: Unveiling Narratives in Iranian Prison Literature and Human Rights Education.” Liminalities Journal. Open access, 2025.

  3. “Exploiting Sighah: Gender, Power, and the Marginalization of Women in Iranian Media.” Cinema Iranica, Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, 2025.

  4. “Love on Hold: Social Distancing and Relationships in the Era of Covid-19 in Iran.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 20.3: 350–372, 2024.

  5. “Iranian Armenian Poetry: Sonia Balassanian Crossing Borders of Consciousness.” Women Poets Iranica, Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, 2022.

  6. “Seyr-e Tahavol-e Gofteman-e Jensiati dar Iran-e Modern” [The Evolution of Gender Discourse in Modern Iran]. Freedom of Thought Journal 11.1: 77–90, 2022.

  7. “Multiple Consciousness and Transnationalism in Iranian Armenian Cultural Productions.” Middle East Critique 31.1: 81–97, 2022.

  8. “Racial Profiling of Armenian Iranians in the U.S.: Omid Fallahazad’s ‘Citizen Vartgez’.” Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies 6.2: 154–172, 2021.

  9. Yaghoobi, Claudia, and Asghar Seyed-Gohrab. “Introduction.” Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies 6.2: 4–12, 2021.

  10. “Over 40 Years of Resisting the Compulsory Veiling: Relating Literary Narratives to Text-Based Protests to Cyberactivism.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 17.2: 220–239, 2021.

  11. “The Significance of Armenian Language in Iranian Armenian Diasporic Literature.” The Doha Institute Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: 1–6, 2021.

  12. “Breaking the Silences about Non-hetero Female Sexuality via Blogging in Iran: The ‘Not-Woman, Not-Man’ in Saghi Ghahraman’s Poetry.” Journal of Homosexuality 68.5: 830–848, 2021. Online September 2019.

  13. “Iranian Armenians in Zoya Pirzad’s Works: Diasporic Transnational Identity.” Persian Media Productions: 1–4, 2020.

  14. “Zulaikha’s Displaced Desire in Jami’s ‘Yusuf va Zulaikha’.” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 4.2: 62–77, 2019.

  15. “The Fluidity of Iranian-Armenian Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s Things We Left Unsaid.” International Journal of Persian Literature, Iranian Minority Women Special Issue, 4.1: 103–120, 2019.

  16. Rahimieh, Nasrin, and Claudia Yaghoobi. “Introduction.” International Journal of Persian Literature, Iranian Minority Women Special Issue, 4.1: 3–7, 2019.

  17. “Selseleh Marateb-e Mardanegi va Mardan-e Hamjensgara dar Iran” [The Hierarchy of Masculinities and Male Homosexuality in Iran]. Journal of Freedom of Thought-Iran 7.1: 193–219, 2019.

  18. “Pirzad’s Diasporic Transnational Subjects in ‘A Day Before Easter’.” International Journal of Persian Literature 3.1: 110–132, 2018.

  19. “Mapping Out Socio-Cultural Decadence on the Female Body: Sadeq Chubak’s Gowhar in Sange-e Sabur.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Mapping Gendered Violence Special Issue, 39.2: 206–232, 2018.

  20. “The Abject Outsider: ‘The Story of Two Gay Men.’” Iran-Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Iranian Men and Masculinities Special Issue, 3.1: 164–188, 2018.

  21. “Socially Peripheral, Symbolically Central: Sima in Behrouz Afkhami’s Shokaran.” Asian Cinema, Iranian Female Sexuality Special Issue, 27.2: 151–163, 2016.

  22. “Yusuf’s ‘Queer’ Beauty in Persian Cultural Productions.” The Comparatist 40.1: 245–266, 2016.

  23. “Hamzisti dar Asar-e ‘Attar” [Co-existence in ‘Attar’s Works]. Rahavard Persian/English Journal of Iranian Studies 105: 142–152, 2014.

  24. “Sexual Trauma and Spiritual Experiences: Rabi’a al-‘Adawiyya and Margery Kempe.” Persian Literary Studies Journal 3.4: 73–92, 2014.

  25. “Subjectivity in ‘Attar’s Shaykh San’an Story in Conference of the Birds.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.1: 1–9, 2014.

  26. “Against the Current: Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s Diverse Voices.” Persian Literary Studies Journal 1.1: 87–109, 2012.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

  1. “Between Use and Refuse: Sigheh Women in Iranian Cultural Imagination.” In Oxford Intersections: Cultures of Waste, edited by Myra Hird and Cecilia Åsberg. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming, 2026.

  2. “Armenians as an Ethnoreligious Minority in Iran.” In As Told by an Acquaintance: Festschrift for Dr. Mansoureh Ettehadieh, edited by Elham Malekzadeh, pp. 309–329. Nashr-e Tarikh-e Iran. In Persian, 2025.

  3. “The Significance of Educator’s Self-Actualization in Teaching Gender in Persian Literature.” In The Art of Teaching Persian Literature: From Theory to Practice, edited by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Franklin Lewis, and Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, pp. 223–240. Brill, 2024.

  4. “Introduction: Bodies, Spaces, and Places.” In The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment, edited by Claudia Yaghoobi, pp. 1–10. Sex, Marriage and the Family in the Middle East series. Bloomsbury Press, 2023.

  5. “Shifting Sexual Ideology and Women’s Responses: Iran Between 1850–2010.” In Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance, edited by Homa Hoodfar and Anissa Lucas-Helie, pp. 52–80. London: Zed Books, 2012.