TEACHING & UNIVERSITY

  • An Introduction to Literature I & II
  • Reading Comprehension I & II
  • Basic Grammar I & II
  • Advanced Grammar: English Composition 
  • World Literature
  • Contemporary Literature
  • Reading Media Texts
  • Basics of Research and Methodology
  • A History of Literary Criticism (From Plato to Eliot)
  • Literary Translation I & II
  • Approaches to Literary Criticism
  • A Survey of the History of English Literature I & II
  • Academic Writing
  • Literary Movements
  • Classical and Renaissance Drama
  • Samples of Simple Poetry
  • Samples of Nonfictional Prose 

  1. Literary Theory & Practice
  2. American Literature
  3. Short Fiction
  4. The Novel 
  5. Contemporary Poetry
  6. Literature of the 17th & 18th Centuries
  7. Writing Academic Papers about Literature 
  8. Word/Image: Literature & the Visual Arts
  9. Linguistic Approaches to Literature 
  10. Masterpieces of World Drama 
  11. Romantic Poetry
  12. The Renaissance 
  13. Seminar on Literary Research

  1.  Material Interconnection of Nature and Culture in Willa Cather’s Prairie Trilogy (Advisor, Ershad University of Damavand, authored by Sarah Matoori, 2020)
  2. The Formation of Gender Identity in Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee in the Light of Spivak’s subaltern Theories (Advisor, Ershad University of Damavand. authored by Hessam Taghavi, 2020)
  3. God Help Nature: An Ecofeminist Approach to Toni Morrison’s Selected Novels, Beloved and God Help the Child (Advisor, Ershad University of Damavand, authored by Zeinab Eidi, 2020) 
  4. Power, Selection and Everyday Life: A Postcolonial Reading on Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and The Dying Animal (Advisor, Ershad University of Damavand, authored by Hadi Ohadi, 2019)
  5. The Non-Whites and Appropriation of Occidental Codes in Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Known World and Crossing the River (Examiner, Ershad University of Damavand, authored by Atiyeh Arjmandi, 2019)
  6. A Žižekian Study of Violence in the Selected Armenian and Balkan Genocide Novels: The Sandcastle Girls and Girl at war (Examiner, Ershad University of Damavand, authored by Sirli Gragosian, 2019)
  7. Capitalism and Consumerism in Huxley’s Novels (Examiner, Ershad University of Damavand, authored by Hesam Moeini, 2018)

  1. How to Compose Mini-essays
  2. Reading Materials for MA Entrance Exam, English Literature
  3. Recommended List of Short Stories for Further Reading