Niloofar Sarlati

My research and teaching engages fields of empire and postcolonial studies; history of capitalism; critical translation theory; critical theory; travel literature and the novel; moving images and their circulations (with particular attention to Iranian cinema in the broader context of West Asia). Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and cultural productions in Persian, English, Arabic, and French, my current book project studies acts of giving and taking in different epistemologies of political economy formed by contested encounters shaped by colonialism and capitalism.  

My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Symplokē, Philological Encounters, and Comparative Literature. I am also contributing an essay to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature.