EDUCATION

PhD (Comparative Literature: English, Persian, French)
University of California at Berkeley, 1987
MA (Near Eastern Languages: Persian)
University of California at Berkeley, 1968
MA (English)
University of California, Berkeley, 1965
BA (English and French), (with distinction) (Phi Beta Kappa)
University of California at Berkeley, 1963

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona:
Professor of English, 1995-present;
Associate Professor of English, 1992-1995;
Assistant Professor of English, 1989-1992
Sonoma State University: Lecturer in English, 1988-1989
Mills College: Assistant Professor in English, 1987-1988
University of California, Berkeley:
Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, 1982;
Associate in Collegiate Seminar Program (Strawberry Creek College), 1977-1980
San Francisco State University:
Lecturer in World and Comparative Literature, 1977
University of California, Berkeley:
Instructor in Comparative Literature, 1972-74;
Associate in Comparative Literature, 1971-72
University of Tehran: Instructor in English, 1969-70

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, &HONORS

Member of teaching faculty, National Endowment for the Humanities India/China Institute, 1995-1996
Faculty Development Award & RSCA Summer Fellowship, 1995
(research: Contemporary Women Poets of the World)
Sabbatical leave, 1994
(revision: Women Poets of the World)
State Educational Lottery Fund Grant, 1988-1989: "Women Writers of the World" reading & lecture series, Sonoma State University
Fulbright Fellowship in Iran (research: "Folk and Foreign Influences on Contemporary Iranian Poetry"), 1969-1970
NDFL Fellowship for Persian, 1965-1968
NDFL Fellowship for Arabic, 1966

FIELD RESEARCH

Malaysia: historical influences on intercultural relations in Melaka (the Baba
Nyonya, Portuguese, Hokkien Chinese, Tamil, and Malay); literature,
dance, music, of Malaysia (preliminary research), 1991
Iran: folk and foreign influences on contemporary Iranian poetry, 1969-1970;
the female voice in written and oral poetry of Khunsar, 1978

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression
(editor; contributor) (anthology of essays; 1995, University Press of
Virginia)
Women Poets of the World, a 4000-Year Legacy, (co-editor,
contributor, and translator), (New York: Macmillan, 1983); (revised
edition in progress)
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (consulting editor), (London:
Penguin,1978)
The Other Voice: Twentieth Century Women's Poetry in
Translation (co-editor and translator) (New York: Norton, 1976)
Contemporary Women Poets of the World (in progress)
Fractious Community: World Feminisms in Dialogue (with
Merry Pawlowski, in progress)

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND TRANSLATIONS (partial list)

"To Speak the Unspeakable: Implications of Gender, 'Race,' Class, and Culture"
(introduction to Violence, Silence, and Anger, University Press
of Virginia, 1995)
"Disrupting the Deadly Stillness: Janice Mirikitani's Poetics of Violence," Asian
America: Journal of Culture and the Arts 1.2 (1992); rpt. in
Violence, Silence, and Anger, (University Press of Virginia, 1995)
"What Some Women Can't Swallow: Hunger as Protest in Charlotte Brontë's
Shirley," in Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment,
ed. Lilian Furst and Peter W. Graham (State University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1992)
"From Alienation to Recognition: Teaching The Woman Warrior to High
School and Community College Students" (with Marlyn Peterson), in
Approaches to Teaching Kingston's "The Woman Warrior", ed.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (New York: Modern Language Association, 1991)
Essays included in Women Poets of the World (1983): "General
Introduction," "Iranian Women Poets," "Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century
Women Poets of Europe," "African Women Poets," "Native American
Women Poets"
"If the Veil Fits: Iranian Women Talk about Women's Roles" (interview
with Mojgan Amanpour and Atoosa Molanazadeh), Sonoma County
Women's Voices (June 1989)
"Absurdity and Creation in Hedayat's Fiction," Iranian Studies 15.1-4 (1982),
31-67
"No Refuge in the East," Ferdowsi, Tehran, 1969
"Song of the Reed: Absurdity and Creation in the Work of Sadeq Hedayat,"
Ferdowsi, Tehran, 1968

PRESENTATIONS (partial list)

"Crossing the Empire: World Feminisms in Dialogue" (special session:
co-organizer and chair), Modern Languages Association, Chicago, 1995)
"The Cultural Politics of Poetic Production" (special session: organizer and
chair), Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Santa Barbara,
CA, 1995)
"Eastern European Women Poets": organizer, discussion leader of talk by
Georgiana Farnoaga and Viktoria Lajko-Lacan (Cal Poly, 1995)
"International Detective Work: 4000 Years of Poetry by Women" (Cal Poly,
1994)
"Drowning in the 'Mainstream': Resistant Students and Multicultural Change"
(National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Seattle, 1991)
"Overcoming Student and Faculty Resistance to Multicultural Change"
(workshop presented with John Maitino and Febe Portillo at "The Inclusive
University" Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Inter-
cultural Relations, California State University at Hayward, Oakland, 1991)
"Violence, Silence, and Healing Anger: Mirikitani's Im/proper Poetics" (paper
presented at the conference "Asian American Cultural Transformations:
A Literature of One's Own," University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991)
"En/gendering Distortions: Stereotypes, Scapegoats, and Useful Enemies"
(National Association of Ethnic Studies Conference, Cal Poly Pomona,
1991)
"The Hero and the 'Other': Mythic Patterns of Integration in Literature"
(Ethnic & Women's Studies, Cal Poly Pomona, 1990)
"Dancing Our Differences: Cultural Conflict as a Classroom Resource"
(workshop, Cal Poly December Faculty Workshops, 1991)
"What Some Women Can't Swallow: Hunger as Protest in Charlotte Brontë's
Shirley" (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference,
Long Beach, 1990)
"Hearing Herself Spoken: Dialogue as a Catalyst for Writing" (panel & talk
presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention,
Atlanta, 1990)
"Surfacing: An Oral History of 'Women in Literature,' 1972-1990" (with
Lauren Coodley) (Western Association of Women Historians Conference,
Huntington Library, 1990)
"Dumping 'Mainstream' as a Term for Literature: World Poetry by Women
Deconstructs the Canon" ("From the Eurocentric University to the Multi-
cultural University: The Faculty's Challenge for the 21st Century,"
conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Intercultural Relations,
California State University, Hayward, Oakland, 1989)
"Both/And: Literary Collaboration as a Dance of Differences" (Women's
Council of the State University Annual Conference, Sonoma State
University,1989)
"'If She Swims, She's a Witch': Un/Safe Passage in The Mill on the Floss"
(Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Boston, 1988)
"In/voking Woman's Song: the Socio-Politics of Poetic Production" (English
Department, Sonoma State University, 1988)
"Dark Vision: Ambiguities of Self-Knowledge in George Eliot's The Mill on
the Floss" (Faculty Lecture Series, Mills College, 1988)
"Contradiction and Connection: The Function of the Relinquishing Scenes in
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice" (English Department, Mills College,
1987)
"The Impact of Relinquishing on the Structural Contradictions in Charlotte
Brontë's Jane Eyre" (English Department, Mills College, 1987)
"Feminist Fairy Tales" (Structural and Intellectual Strategies in Women's Studies,
University of California, Irvine, 1984)
"Iranian Women Poets" (Philological Association of the Pacific Coast,
Vancouver, BC, 1984)
"Beyond the Walls: Conceptual Polarization in Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and Contemporary Culture" (Peace and Conflict Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, 1983)
"Literary and Linguistic Considerations in the Translating of Classical
and Contemporary Iranian Poetry" (Linguistics Department, University
of California, Berkeley, 1982)
"Women and Poverty, International Perspectives Through Literature"
(with VèVè Clark) (Center for Continuing Education of Women, University
of California, Berkeley, 1979)
"Persian Women Poets" (East Meets West in Middle East Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1975)
"Existential Alienation in G.-H. Saedi's Azadaran-e Bayal and His Film
'Gav'" (American Oriental Society, University of California, Berkeley,
1973)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (recent)

Faculty Advisor, MADILA (Multicultural Association for Diversity
in Literature and the Arts (1990-present)
Outside tenure evaluator, University of Southern California (1996)
NEH Project: "India/China in a Comparative and Global Perspective --
A Professional Development Program for School Teachers" (Tara Sethia,
Director): Seminar leader/ faculty resource/ guest lecturer (Cal Poly
Pomona, 1994-1996)
California Council on the Humanities grant: consultant on documentary
film on the life and work of Upton Sinclair (1994-present)
"Upton Sinclair Colloquium: A Gathering of Scholars": consultant and
participant (University of California, Los Angeles, July 1995)
Prescreener for the Major Fellowship Program of the American Council of
Learned Societies (1990, 1991, 1992)
Institute for Regional and International Studies (planning committee;
Middle East Area committee; Advisory Council; Coordinator for Cultural
Affairs, Cal Poly, 1994-97)
Editorial consultant, Inland Independent Committee to Draft Ralph
Nader for President (1995-96)

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Farsi (Persian) [speaking, reading, writing]
French, German, Latin, Arabic, Khunsari, Old Persian, Pahlavi,
Manichaean Middle Persian [reading]

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association
Philological Association of the Pacific Coast
National Association for Ethnic Studies
Society for Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
National Women's Studies Association
American Literary Translators Association
National Council of Teachers of English

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