Laetitia Nanquette

I work on modern and contemporary Persian literature; Iranian Print Culture; Publishing; Book History; World Literature; Sociology of literature; Digital Humanities. I was trained in France, the United Kingdom, Iran, and the United States (Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard University) before coming to Australia in 2013. I work increasingly in book history, print culture and publishing studies. In 2026/2027, I am a Bahari fellow of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. To learn more about my research: My second book: "Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP): https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-iranian-literature-after-the-islamic-revolution.html An interview for SBS Persian about it: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/persian/audio/laetitia-nanquette-iranian-literature-after-the-islamic-revolution_1 An interview in Persian with the cultural magazine Aasoo: https://aasoo.org/fa/books/5237 A podcast on the book and my research: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/new-books-in-middle-eastern-studies/id426138594?i=1000611966819 A blog post about my research: https://centerforiraniandiasporastudies.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/iranian-diaspora-spotlight-dr-laetitia-nanquette-a-scholar-writing-from-outside-and-inside/ I sometimes publish opinion pieces on Iran: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reviving-hope-iran-why-woman-life-freedom-movement-lives I am interested in translation studies and in the practice of translation. My translations of Iranian short stories into French have been published in literary journals, and I have translated Persian texts into English with Ali Alizadeh. I am Associate Editor for the journal Iranian Studies (Cambridge UP) and editor for the Modern Persian literature section of Encyclopaedia Iranica. modern and contemporary Persian literature; Iranian culture; Print Culture and Book History; Publishing Studies; World Literature; literature and globalization; sociology of literature; Digital Humanities