Laetitia Nanquette

I was trained in France, the United Kingdom, Iran and the United States before coming to Australia. I frequently travel to Iran for research fieldworks.

In 2011, I completed my PhD in Middle Eastern literary and cultural studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

I had postdoctoral positions at Harvard University and UNSW before starting an Australian Research Council grant at UNSW (2015-2019). My second book came out last year: "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World."Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

I am interested in modern and contemporary Middle Eastern literatures, particularly in Persian literature; the circulation of literature and culture between the Middle East and the diasporas; the relations between the West and the postcolonial world; World Literature; literature and globalization, exile and diaspora literatures.