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Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in
Comparative Literature in 1979. Her dissertation, Forugh
Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective was a critical study of
the poetry of a pioneering woman poet. Past president of the
Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America,
Milani was the recipient of Alumni Teaching Award in 1998
and nominated for Virginia Faculty of the Year in 1999. She
is the author of "Veils and Words: The Emerging Voice of
Iranian Women Writers," "A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of
Simin Behbahani" (with Kaveh Safa)She has published over
100 articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwards in
Persian and in English. She has written for the New York
Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ms.
Magazine, the Readers Digest, and N.P.R.’s All Things
Considered, among others. She has presented more than 150
lectures nationally and internationally. Former Director of
Studies in Women and Gender and Professor of Persian
Literature and Women Studies at the University of Virginia
in Charlottesville, Milani is currently a Carnegie Fellow.
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