Courses

This course looks at how gender, space, and ideas of modernity came together in Iran at the turn of the twentieth century. We focus on memoirs, poems, plays, and newspapers written by Iranian women. Instead of seeing these texts only as historical records, we treat them as creative and spatial tools that helped shape modern Iranian culture. Through close reading, students will explore how women's writing questioned the rules that confined them, expressed new forms of selfhood, and redefined the line between private and public space. The course places Iranian women's literature in conversation with broader ideas from literature and spatial theory. 

Mohadeseh Salari Sardari

WINTER 2026