PersisM.Karim,Ph.D. http://www.persiskarim.comProfessor,SanJoseStateUniversity

DepartmentofEnglishandComparativeLiterature

Director,PersianStudiesatSJSUCoordinator/Advisor,MiddleEasternStudiesProgram

CurriculumVitae

SanJoseStateUniversity1WashingtonSquareSanJose,CA95192-0090Mobile(510)847-2817

persis.karim@sjsu.edupersisk@yahoo.com(408)924-4476(office)

Education Ph.D.,ComparativeLiterature,UniversityofTexasatAustin,1998 Dissertation:FissuredNationsandExilicStates:Displacement,Exile, andDiasporainTwentieth-CenturyWritingbyWomenM.A.,MiddleEasternStudies,UniversityofTexasatAustin,1993 M.A.Thesis:TheSearchforHistoryinFiction:SiminDaneshvar’sSavushun andtheModernistNovelinContemporaryIranB.A.,CommunityStudies,UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaCruz,California,1981-1985 HonorsinthemajorandonseniorthesisFellowships,GrantsandAwards“StagingtheIranianDiaspora”–TheHandFoundation,$6900,PrincipalInvestigator,atheater projectadaptingstoriesfromTremors:NewFictionbyIranianAmericanWriterstothe Stage;collaborationwithProfessorMatthewSpangler,CommunicationsDepartment,SJSU, April2014.RoshanCulturalHeritageInstitute—$300,000,PrincipalInvestigator,three-yeargrant tosupportPersianStudiesatSanJoseStateUniversity,January2013-January2016.MuslimJourneys—LiteraryReflectionsGrant—NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities. Co-PrincipalInvestigatorwithDr.MartinLutherKing,Jr.Librarian,PeggyCabrera, $4500,2013-2014.“Peace-BuildingGrant,UnitedStatesInstituteofPeace—$2000,PrincipalInvestigator, “Peace-buildingandNonviolence:ApproachestoTeachingtheIsraeli-PalestinianConflict.” Workshopforcommunitycollegeandhighschoolteachers,SanJoseStateUniversity, April18,2013.CaliforniaCouncilfortheHumanities,CommunityStoriesGrant,$10,000,PrincipalInvestigator “IranianAmericanVoicesofSiliconValley:ADigitalStorytellingProject,” June2013-June2014 (http://www.sjsu.edu/persianstudies/iranianamericanvoicesofsiliconvalley/)

Persis M. Karim Page 2 Vita PARSACommunityFoundationMehreganGrant,$200,000,PrincipalInvestigator, toestablishPersianStudiesatSJSU,March2011-May2014DepartmentofEducation,TitleVIGrant“SiliconValleyConsortiumforMiddleEastStudies” $147,000todevelopMiddleEastStudiesatSJSU,SanJoseCityCollege,SantaClara UniversityCo-PrincipalInvestigator;CoordinatorofMiddleEastStudiesatSJSU,2010- 2013.PARSACommunityFoundationGrant,$10,000,PrincipalInvestigator,toestablishPersianand Iranian-AmericanStudies(PIASI),NoruzGrant,2010-2011.SplitthisRockPoetryAwardfor“WaystoCounttheDead,”May2008.“BookoftheYear”forLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranian Diaspora(BronzeMedal,AnthologyCategory)sponsoredbyForewordMagazine,2007.CaliforniaCollegeoftheArts,VisitingScholar,(ChristensenFundGrant) “CrossConnections:Art,CultureandPoliticsoftheIranianAmericanCommunity” (withTaranehHemami,VisitingArtist),CenterforArtandPublicLife,Oakland,CA,2005- 2006.“Exploring9/11andCommunityDialogue,”CaliforniaCouncilfortheHumanitiesGrant,$3000, 2002. SanJoseStateUniversity,Grants/Awards CollegeofHumanities&Arts,Research,ScholarlyandCreativeActivityGrant,2015-2017 “IranianAmericanVoicesofSiliconValley”(continuedresearchactivity) CollegeofHumanities&Arts,“GlobalSignatureEventsGrant,”2014-2015 CollegeofHumanities&Arts,DistinguishedServiceAward,2013-2014 CollegeofHumanities&Arts,Dean’s“GlobalHumanitiesInitiativeGrant”2014 Research,CreativeandScholarlyActivityGrant,SJSU,2013-2014 Provost’sResearchGrant,DevelopmentofPersianStudies,2012-2013 CaliforniaStateUniversityResearchGrant,forPersianandIranian-AmericanStudies,2009- 2010 LearningProductivityGrant,UndergraduateStudies,2008 CaliforniaStateUniversitySummerResearchGrant,2006-2007 SybilWeir/JohnGalmAward,2006 SJSULotteryGrant,2005-2006 SJSUDean’sGrant,2006 CaliforniaStateUniversityResearchGrant,2004-2005 JuniorFacultyCareerDevelopmentGrant,2004 FacultyLotteryGrant,2003-2004 InterdisciplinaryProjectTeamGrant,Spring2002 SJSUDean’sSmallGrant,2002 CaliforniaCouncilfortheHumanities“9/11CommunityDialogue”Grant,Spring2001

Persis M. Karim Page 3 Vita Conferences&Exhibits(Convener,Organizer,Producer)“EngagingIranandtheIranianDiasporaaftertheNuclearAgreement:OpportunitiesandChallenges”(A Multi- ConferenceandConversation),PersianStudies,Dr.MartinLutherKing,Jr.Library, SanJoseStateUniversity,October20-21,2016.“TogetherTea,”adaptedforthestagefromthenovelofthesamenamebyMarjanKamali.Writtenand directedbyMatthewSpangler.ProducedbyPersisKarim,SanJoseStateUniversity,October21, 2016.“CulturesoftheIranianDiaspora,”PersianStudies,Dr.MatinLutherKing,Jr.Library,SanJoseState UniversityApril11-12,2014(forvideossee:www.sjsu.edu/persianstudies).“InjaoOonja:StoriesofIranian-AmericanLife,”aplayinthreeactsadaptedfromfromTremors:NewFiction byIranianAmericanWritersfortheStage.WrittenandDirectedbyMatthewSpanger,Producedby PersisKarim,LePetitTrianonTheater,SanJose,CA,April12,2014,“IranianAmericanWritersinDialogue,”co-convenorwithDr.NasrinRahimieh,UCLosAngeles, LosAngeles,CA,Co-SponsoredbytheFarhandFoundation,April19,2009.MiddleEastandIslamicStudiesWorkshop:“TeachingtheMiddleEastThroughtheHumanities,” Co-ConvenerwithProfessorLuciaVolk,SanFranciscoStateUniversity,October16-17,2009.AssociationofIranianAmericanWritersWorkshop(InauguralEvent),co-convenerwithDr.Nasrin Rahimieh,UCIrvine,SamuelM.JordanCenterforPersianStudiesandCulture,UCIrvine,May3, 2008.“CrossConnections:re:Present,”Co-convenerwithTaranehHemami,OliverArtCenter,CaliforniaCollegeof theArts,Oakland,CA,http://www.taranehhemami.com/cross-connections-represent,June2005.BooksTremors:NewFictionbyIranianAmericanWriters,editorwithAnitaAmirrezvani andcontributingauthor.Fayetteville:UniversityofArkansasPress,2013.LetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, editorandcontributingauthor.Fayetteville:UniversityofArkansasPress,May2006.AWorldBetween:Poetry,ShortStories,andEssaysbyIranian-Americans, editorwithM.M.Khorramiandcontributingauthor.NewYork:GeorgeBraziller,Inc. Publishers,1999.Satan’sStones:StoriesbyMonirouRavanipour.Co-translator.Austin:UniversityofTexasPress, 1996.

Persis M. Karim Page 4 Vita EditedJournals“WritingBeyondIran—WritersandLiteratureOutsideIran,“editor/curator,aspecialissueofWorld LiteratureToday,March/April2015.SpecialIssueofIranianStudies,“IranianDiasporaStudies”Vol.46,Issue1,2013.“CultureandConflict,”aspecialissueofWorldLiteratureToday,editor/curator,May2012.SpecialissueofComparativeStudiesofSouthAsia,Africa,andtheMiddleEast,“TheIranian Diaspora,”co-editedwithBabakElahi,Vol.31,2011.SpecialIssueofMELUS:MultiEthnicLiteratureoftheUnitedStates.“Iranian-American Literature,”co-editedwithNasrinRahimieh,Vol.33,No.2,Summer2008.ArticlesinBooks“ReturningHome:Iranian-AmericanWomen’sMemoirsandReflectiveNostalgia”inIdentity, DiasporaandReturnNarrativesinAmericanLiterature,M.AntoniaOliver-Rotger,ed., NewYork:Routledge,2015.“InPraiseofBigNoses”(PersonalEssay)inGlobalBeauty,LocalBodies,AfshanJafarandErynn Casanova,(eds.),NewYork:Palgrave,2014.“Re-WritingForugh:Writers,Intellectuals,ArtistsandFarrokhzad’sLegacyintheIranianDiaspora”in ForughFarrokhad,PoetofModernIran:IconicWomanandFemininePioneerofNewPersian Poetry,DominicBrookshawandNasrinRahimieh(eds.),London:I.B.Tauris,2010.

“IranianDiasporaLiterature”inIranToday:AnEncyclopediaofLifeintheIslamicRepublic. ManocherDorrajandMehranKamrava,(eds.),FarmingtonHills:GalePublishing,2008.“BridgestothePast:DiasporaandtheColdWarinCristinaGarcia’sDreaminginCubanand LanCao’sMonkeyBridge”inConsideringAmericafromInsideandOut:ASan

Jose/OstravaDialogueSharingPerspectives.PetyrKopecandStanislavKolar,(eds.),Ostrava:UniversityofOstrava,2006.

IntroductionDoestheLandRememberMe?AMemoirofExileandReturnbyAzizShihab. Syracuse:SyracuseUniversityPress,2007.

EncyclopediaofAmericanEthnicLiterature.Entrieson:“Iranian-AmericanLiterature,”“Gelareh

Asayesh,”“GinaNahai,”“NahidRachlin,”“BahmanSholevar,”and“AliZarrin.”EmmanuelNelson(ed.),Westport,CT:GreenwoodPress,2005.

AfterwordtoWomenWithoutMenbyShahrnushParsipur.NewYork:TheFeminist Press,2004.“Savushun(APersianRequiem)bySiminDaneshvar,”inWorldLiteratureandItsTimes;

Vol.6:MiddleEasternLiteratureandTheirTimes.Detroit:Thomson/Gale,2004.

Persis M. Karim Page 5 Vita AfterwordtoWomenwithoutMenbyShahrnushParsipur(translatedbyKamranTalattofandJocelyn Sharlet)NewYork:FeministPress,2004.“CristinaGarcia,”inTwenty-First-CenturyAmericanNovelists.Detroit:Thomson/Gale,

2004.“NaomiShihabNye,”inContemporaryAmericanWomenPoets.Westport:GreenwoodPress,2002.

“NuruddinFarah”inCensorship:AWorldEncyclopedia.London:FitzroyDearbornPublishers,2001.“BooksAreOftenBanned,”inCensorship:CurrentControversies,GreenhavenPress,2001.ArticlesinJournals“WritingBeyondIran:ReinventionandtheExilicIranianWriter”inWorldLiteratureToday,Vol.89, No2.March2015.“InterviewwithPoet,MohsenEhmadiinWorldLiteratureToday,March2015.http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2015/march/interview-iranian-poet-mohsen-emadi-persis-karim“ThereisOnlyOneOcean:TheSocietalImpactoftheJapanTsunamionCommunitiesintheUnited States”(co-authorw/CraigStrang)inCurrent:TheJournalofMarineEducation,December 2014 http://www.speyerlegacyschool.org/uploaded/RESPONSIVE_SITE_2014/Science_Photos/2 014-12-Current_lowres.pdf.“ADaythatLingerswithUsStill:Al-MutanabbiStartsHere”inWorldLiteratureToday, May/June2012.“InternalandExternalBorders:AConversationwithRajaShehadeh”inWorldLiteratureToday, May/June2012.“InMyFather’sHouse”inEssaysontheOccasionoftheIlluminatedVerses:PoetriesoftheIslamic World,BurroughofManhattanCommunityCollege,NewYork,NY,2011.“ReflectionsonLiteratureafterthe1979RevolutionandintheDiaspora,”inRadicalHistoryReview, Vol.2009,no.105,Fall2009.“IranianandAmerican—WritingfromaComplexEthnicPerspective,”inMulticultural

WritinginAmericaToday,U.S.DepartmentofState-BureauofInternationalInformationPrograms,2009.

“Editors’Introduction:WritingIranianAmericansintotheAmericanLiteratureCanon,” MELUS—SpecialIssueonIranianAmericanLiterature,Vol.33,No.2,Summer2008.“ChartingthePastandPresent:IranianImmigrantandEthnicExperiencethroughPoetry,” MELUS—SpecialIssueonIranianAmericanLiterature,Vol.33,No.2,Summer2008.

Persis M. Karim Page 6 Vita TalkingwithaPioneerofIranianAmericanLiterature:AnInterviewwithNahidRachlin,” MELUS—SpecialIssueonIranianAmericanLiterature,Vol.33,No.2,Summer2008.“SanJoseStateUniversity’sLegacyofPoetry,”Reed:AJournalofPoetryandProse, Vol.60,2007.“GrowingupintheShadowofTwoCultures,”TheModernMiddleEastinTransition: TexasAssociationofMiddleEastScholars,Laredo,TX,Spring1994.BookReviewsReview of Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El-Rashidi in MS. Magazine,August2016.Review of UntilWe are Free:My Fight for Human Rights in Iran by Shiin Ebadi inMS.Magazine, March2016.ReviewofTablet andPen: Literary Landscapes from theModernMiddleEast, RezaAslan, (ed.), in MiddleEasternLiteratures,Winter2015.Review of The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik in Women’sReviewofBooks,July/August,2011.ReviewofTheGoodDaughter:AMemoirofMyMother’sHiddenLifebyJasminDarznikinMS. Magazine.January2011.ReviewofTheAgeofOrphans(2009)byLalehKhadiviandBoneWorshipbyElizabeth EslamiinWomen’sReviewofBooks,May/June2010.ReviewofPassionateUprisings:Iran’sSexualRevolutionbyPardisMahdaviinWomen’sReviewOf Books,vol.26,:4,July/August,2009.ReviewofAMirrorGardenbyMonirShahroudyFarmanfarmaianandZaraHoushmandin MELUS—SpecialIssueonIranianAmericanLiterature,Vol.33,No.2,Summer2008.ReviewofStrangeTimesMyDear:ThePENAnthologyofContemporaryIranianLiterature editedbyNahidMozaffariandAhmadKarimi-Hakkak,IranianStudies,Vol.40,No.5 December2007.ReviewofWomenWithoutMenbyShahrnushParsipurinMESABulletin,vol.35,no.1,

Summer2001.ReviewofMen,WomenandGod(s):NawalElSaadawiandArabFeministPoetics.MiddleEastReport,July/August1997.“ReconsideringWomen’sWritinginIran:AReviewofWordsandVeils:IranianWomen’sWriting.” AndishevaKhial,Winter,1992. “Savushun:AModernPersianClassic,”Review.SanFranciscoReviewofBooks,March1992.

Persis M. Karim Page 7 Vita Books/ArticlesinProgressand/orForthcomingBeyondGeography:SituatingtheGlobalIranianDiaspora—proposalbeingpreparedforsubmission forsubmissiontoseveralpublishers,targetpublicationdate,2018.ReviewofWomenWriteIran:NostalgiaandHumanRightsfromtheDiaspora(Universityof MinnesotaPress,2016)forthcoming,Biography,forthcoming2017.ReviewofConstructingIdentityinIranian-AmericanSelf-NarrativeinSuspensions:Contemporary MiddleEasternandIslamicThought,forthcoming2017.ReviewofIranianIdenittybyNasrinRahimieh(RoutledgeUniversityPress,2016) inMELUS:Multi-EthnicLiteratureoftheUnitedStates,forthcoming2017.“IntheDizzyingAftermathofMigration:MagicalRealismintheNovelsofGinaNahaiandPorochista Khakpour”tobesubmittedtoMELUS:Multi-EthnicLiteraturesoftheUnitedStates,2017.InvitedGuestLectures/Appearances“TheStoriesWeTell:IranianAmericans,DiasporaNarratives,andtheMakingofanArchive,” MiddleEastStudies,UniversityofMichigan,Dearborn,Dearborn,MI,September17,2016.“FromPre-SchooltoPh.D.:Iranian-AmericanWomenDiscusstheFutureofEducation,”APanelby theNorthernCaliforniaChapterofIranianAmericanWomenFoundation,Berkeley,CA, August21,2016.“TheIranianDiasporainLiteratureandTheatre,”NationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesSummer Seminar,“TheaterandLiteratureofImmigrantCalifornia,”Dr.MatthewSpangler,Director, SanJoseStateUniversity,July18,2016.Steinbeck’sLegacyandImmigrantWritersofCalifornia,NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities SummerSeminar,“TheNationalSteinbeckInstitue,”Dr.SusanShillinglaw,Director,San JoseStateUniversity,July15,2016.“History’sShadowandElRealismMágicoinGabrielGarciaMarquez’sOneHundredYearsof Solitude,”(CampusReadingSelectionfor2016),SantaRosaCommunityCollege,SataRosa, CA,April4,2016.UntilWeareFree—PersisKariminConversationwithDr.ShirinEbadi,(2003NobelPeacePrize Winner)inconjunctionwithherbookrelease,UntilWeareFree:MyStruggleforHuman Rights inIran-SponsoredbyKeplerBooks,MenloPark,CA,March9,2016.“FillingintheGaps:ArchivesofandintheIranianDiaspora”PartoftheNYUSeries“Animatingthe Archives:ASeriesofSymposiaonIranianCulturalHistory,”NewYorkUniversity,NewYork, February5,2016.“AzadivaEdalat:StoriesRetoldbyContemporaryIranianWomenArtists,”OglethorpeUniversity ArtMuseum,Atlanta,GA,April8,2015.

Persis M. Karim Page 8 Vita “BridgingCultures:PoeticVoicesoftheMuslimWorld”–ADiscussionandReading,SanFrancisco PublicLibrary,April7,2015.“InjaoOonja:StoriesofIranianAmericanLife—AStagedReadingof‘SomethingtoPrayFor’by Persis Karim;ADiscussionandPerformanceaspartoftheLaGuardiaCommunityCollege RoughDraftFestival,LaGuardia,NewYork,April3,2015.WomenandtheEmergenceofIranian-AmericanLiteraryLandscapes,InternationalWomen’sDay, SantaRosaCommunityCollege,SantaRosa,CA,March2,2015.TheBegemann-GordonWomen&GenderStudiesLecture “WritingAgainstErasure:WomenandtheEmergenceofIranianDiasporaLiterature,” GeorgiaCollege&StateUniversity,Milledgeville,Georgia,November12,2014.“NarratingtheIranianDiasporainLiteratureandTheater,”NationalEndowmentforthe HumanitiesSummerSeminar,“TheaterandLiteratureofImmigrantCalifornia,”SanJose StateUniversity,July8,2014.“What’sNewaboutIranian-AmericanFiction?”—ReadingandLectureattheUniversityofSeattle, Washington,DepartmentofNearEasternLanguagesandCultures,February27,2014.“IranianAmericanFictionToday”inconjunctionwith“IranModern”ArtExhibit—apanel discussionatTheAsiaSociety,NewYork,December6,2013.“SteinbeckandtheLegacyofWorkingClassandImmigrantLiteratureinCalifornia,”Steinbeck Institute,NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities-fundedseminar,PacificGrove,CA,July 21,2013.“IranianAmericansandtheEmergenceofLiteraryVoice,”TheChristineandHamidMoghadam IranianStudiesLectureSeries,StanfordUniversity,PaloAlto,CA,May16,2013.“PoetryoftheMuslimWorld—AReadingandDiscussion,”NationalEndowmentfortheHumanities SpeakerSeries,“PoetriesoftheIslamicWorld,”LosAngelesCountyLibrary,April6,2013.“FromExileWritertoAmericanFictionAuthor—TheEmergenceofIranian-AmericanFiction,” UniversityofTexasatAustin,March26,2013.“MarjaneSatrapi’sPersepolisandIranToday,”GuestLecturetoPorterCollegeCoreCourse,UC SantaCruz,October4,2012.“TheMagicofSolidarity—AnEveningwithShahrnushParsipurandSuheirHamad” (moderator/discussant),RedcatTheater,CalArts,LosAngeles,CA,February12,2012.“IranandIranianStudiesfromthePerspectiveofItsDiaspora,”alectureforRoadsScholar Participants,InternationalHouse,UCBerkeley,Berkeley,CA,June11,2011.“PoetryofModernIrananditsDiaspora,”aspartoftheIlluminatedVerses:PoetriesoftheIslamic WorldConference,aNationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesconferencehostedbyPoet’s HouseandCityLore,incollaborationwiththeAsiaSociety,NewYork,NY,May7-8,2011.

Persis M. Karim Page 9 Vita “LiteratureandCensorship–CaseStudiesfromIran,Nigeria,andtheU.S.,”WashingtonandLee University,September30,2010.“TeachingLiteraturefromtheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica”—SymposiumofMulticultural Literature,EnglishDepartment,ArchbishopMittyHighSchool,SanJose,CA,January29, 2010.“BeyondtheHeadlines,BeyondAhmadinejad:ReadingPersianLiteratureandIranian

DiasporaLiteratureforaMoreNuancedUnderstandingofIranandIranians,”ThursdayMorningDialogue,PaloAlto,CA,September24,2009

“LiteratureandtheMakingofEthnicAmericans,”GlobalKnowledgeLectureSeries,

CaliforniaStateUniversity,EastBay,Hayward,CA,April8,2009.“BeyondMemoir:Women,WritingandtheMakingofIranianDiasporaIdentities,”Gender, IslamandtheWestLectureSeries,InstituteofEuropeanStudies,UCBerkeley,Berkeley,CA, April2,2009.“ThirtyYearsaftertheIranianRevolutionandtheMakingofDiasporaCulture,”MiddleEastand IslamicStudiesSpeakersSeries,SanFranciscoStateUniversity,SanFrancisco,CA, March4,2008.“ShiftingIdentities:MuslimsandMiddleEastAmericasinthepost-BushEra

Religion,Politics,andGlobalizationProgram,UCBerkeley,Berkeley,CA,December10, 2008.“WherethePersonal,PoliticalandHistoricalMeet:MarjaneSatrapi’sGraphicMemoirPersepolis,” PorterCollege,UCSantaCruz,SantaCruz,CA,October13,2008.“WritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora,”UniversityofPennsylvania,sponsoredby

TheCenterforMiddleEasternStudiesandKellyWritersHouse,Philadelphia,PA,March24,2008.

“Iranidad:MarkingIranianAmericansVisiblethroughanEmergingLiteratureoftheIranian Diaspora,”RochesterInstituteofTechnology,May1,2007.“AmericanOdysseys”-GuestLecture“IranianAmericanLiterature-WritingBeyondthePast,”Utah StateUniversity,LoganUT,October17,2007.“Iranian-AmericanLiteratureandtheEmergenceofPublicIdentity,”SanJoseCityCollege,Middle EasternHeritageCelebration,SanJose,CA,April17,2006.“BreakingSilence:IranianWomenWritersintheU.S.andIran,”InternationalWomen’sDaylecture, sponsoredbytheKavoshWomen’sSociety,LaPenaCulturalCenter,Berkeley,CA,March5, 2006.“WritingtheDiaspora:TheEmergingLiteratureofIranianAmericans,”UniversityofUtahMiddle EasternStudiesCenter,SaltLakeCity,UT,January18,2002.

Persis M. Karim Page 10 Vita ConferencePresentations,Panels,andWorkshops “MakingaLiteratureoftheIranianDiaspora,”aspartofthe“LiteratureEthnicandThirdWorld Literature:FromUTAustintotheProfessionatLarge,”RoundtablePanel,ModernLanguage AssociationAnnualMeetings,Austin,Texas,January9,2016.“MahmoudDarwishandHisLiteraryandCulturalLegacy,”AmericanStudiesAssociationAnnual Conference,Toronto,Canada,October11,2015.“ExploringIranianIdentity:AWorkshopforWriters,”PersianCenter,Berkeley,June23and30, 2014.“TheEmergenceofIranian-AmericanFictionWriting,”CenterforMiddleEastStudiesandKelly WritersHouse,UniversityofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,PA,March6,2014.“BeyondtheAxisofEvil:IranianAmericanFictionWriting,”panelattheAssociationofWriters andWritingPrograms,Seattle,WA,February28,2014.Tremors:NewFictionbyIranianAmericanWriters—BookLaunchReading,SanJoseState University,April5,2013.“IranianWomenWhoDaretoSpeak,”presentationata“GenderandIdentityintheMiddleEast” Symposium,BostonUniversity,Boston,Massachusetts,September24,2011.“HistoryDidNotBeginin1979:ReframingIranianAmericanSubjectivitiesthroughHistorical Fiction,”ModernLanguageAssociation(NarratingLives)AnnualConvention,Los Angeles,CA,January9,2011.“ShirinEbadi:FromNobelLaureatetoExile,”apanelinhonorofElizabethWarnockFernea. MiddleEastStudiesAssociationAnnualConference,SanDiego,CA,November18,2010.“WhithertheIranianDiaspora?:AThematicConversationwithAcademicsandActivists,”aspart oftheMiddleEastStudiesAssociationAnnualConference,SanDiego,CA,November19, 2010.“Family(secrets),Politics,andNation:FiliationsandAffiliationsintheLiteratureoftheIranian Diaspora,”8thBiennialIranianStudiesConference,LosAngeles,CA,May27-30,2010.“TheWarisNotOver:WritingaboutIraqandtheCaseoftheMutanabbiStreetCoalition,” AnnualMeetingoftheAssociationofWritersandWritingPrograms,Denver,CO, April8,2010.“TeachingtheMiddleEastthroughtheHumanities:RepresentingtheRegionthroughLiterature, Art,andFilm,”(panelistandpaneldirector),SanFranciscoStateUniversity’sMiddleEast andIslamicStudiesconference,October16-17,2009.“IranianWomenMakingMovements”GenderTransitions:StridestowardGreaterEquality,Society forWomen’sStudiesAnnualConference,SanFrancisco,CA,August7,2009.

Persis M. Karim Page 11 Vita “Iranian-AmericanWritersinDialogue,”GustavE.vonGrunebaumCenterforNearEasternStudies, UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,April28,2009.“ForughasIranian-AmericanDiasporicMuse,”ForughFarrokhzad(1935-1967):40-Year

AnniversaryConference,UniversityofManchester,Manchester,England,July4-5,2008.

“BetweenHomeandHost:LiteratureandCultureoftheIranianDiaspora,”panelorganizer,ModernLanguageAssociation,SanFrancisco,CA,December27,2008.

“NarratingtheLegacyofColonialandImperialEncounterinLiteratureoftheModern

MiddleEast,”organizer/moderatorofSJSUgraduatestudentpanel,TeachingMiddleEastStudiesinthe21stCentury,CSUFresno,Fresno,CA,October17,2008.

“RewritingtheTradition:Women’sWritingandtheIranianDiaspora,”UnsettlingWomen:

ContemporaryWomen’sWritingandDiaspora,UniversityofLeicester,July11-13,2008.

“AGatheringandInauguralLecturefortheAssociationofIranianAmericanWriters(AIAW),Co-ConvenerwithDr.NasrinRahimieh,SamuelM.JordanCenterforPersianStudiesandCulture,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,May3,2008.

“MixedAsianIdentityandtheCreativeArts,”panelmember,sponsoredbytheAsiaSocietyof NorthernCalifornia,SanFrancisco,CA,February11,2008.“IntheAgeofMale-DominatedPoliticalShowdowns,DotheVoicesofIranian-American

WomeninLiteratureMatter?”Conferenceorganizerandparticipant,AssociationofWritersandWritingPrograms(AWP),NewYork,NY,February1,2008.

“OldMuses,NewVoices:RemakingandReclaimingIranintheEmergingLiteratureof

theNorthAmericanIranianDiaspora,”Panelorganizerandparticipant,MiddleEastStudiesAssociation(MESA),MontrealCanada,November17,2007.

“WritingtheIranianDiasporathroughWomen’sEyes,”AnnualConferenceoftheMulti-Ethnic LiteraturesoftheUnitedStates,FresnoStateUniversity,Fresno,CA,March24,2007.“CanLiteratureBridgetheWideningChasmBetweentheMiddleEastandtheWest?”Panel Participant,AssociationofWritersandWritingProgram(AWP),Atlanta,Georgia,March1, 2007.“OnAMissionfromGodortheGreatImperialPower?AmericanPresbyterianMissionariesinIran duringthe19thand20thCenturies”UnitedStatesAssociationforCommonwealthLiterature, SantaClaraUniversity,October27,2006.“VisualizingEthnicCommunitiesofOaklandandtheSanFranciscoBayArea:IranianAmericansas NewEthnicity,”AmericanStudiesAssociationConference,Oakland,CA,October14,2006.“NotJustAnotherMemoir:PoetryandFictionoftheIranianDiaspora,”InternationalIranian StudiesAssociation,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanLanguage,London,England,Aug5,2006.

Persis M. Karim Page 12 Vita “IranianAmericanWomen’sWritingandtheEmergenceofEthnicLiterature,” AmericanLiteratureAssociationAnnualConference,Oakland,CA,May27,2006.PoetryTranslationPanel(sponsoredbyPoetryCenterSanJose),MartinLutherKing,Jr.Library, SanJose,CA,April6,2006.“BreakingtheSilence:IranianWomen’sWritingintheUnitedStatesandIran,”presentationto World LiteraturecoursesandothermembersofcampuscommunityatGeorgiaCollegeand StateUniversity,Milledgeville,GA,October27,2005.“IranianIdentity:ASymposium,”sponsoredbytheCenterforMiddleEasternStudies,Universityof TexasatAustin,Austin,TX,April29-30,2005.“WritingOurselvesintoHistory:LiteratureandtheConstructionofIranian-AmericanIdentity,” SecondInternationalConferenceontheIranianDiaspora,UniversityofMaryland,College Park,MD,April23-24,2005.“CultureoftheIranianDiaspora,”UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles,InstituteofDiasporaStudies, LosAngeles,CA,May11,2004.“FromExiletoEthnic:IranianAmericansinthe21stCentury,”atTheMiddleEastCenter, UniversityofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,PA,April1,2004.“Race,HierarchyandAssimilationTheoryinPromaedyaAnantaToer’sThisEarthof

Mankind,”atEmpireandImperialCulturesConference,CaliforniaStateUniversity, Stanislaus,Modesto,CA,February26-28,2004.“FilmandLiteratureoftheIranianDiaspora,”attheAnnualMeetingoftheModern

LanguageAssociation,SanDiego,CA,December27,2003.“TheEmergenceofIranianAmericanLiteratureandtheStruggleforaPublicEthnic

Identity,”attheAmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociationAnnualConference,April11,2002,followedbyseveralpaneldiscussions,SanJuan,PuertoRico,April12-14,2002.

“WideningtheSpectrum:RethinkingtheLegacyofColonialismandImperialisminWest

AsiaandNorthAfrica,presentedattheModernLanguageAssociation(MLA)annualmeetings,NewOrleans,LA,December27-30,2001.

“FromLiteraturetoEthnicIdentity,”paneliston“TheArtsandCultureoftheIranian

Diaspora”panelattheChicagoHumanitiesFestival,Chicago,Ill.,November11,2000.Broadcast/MediaInterviewsInterviewinB/ta’arofMagazine,March2014,http://btaarof.bigcartel.com/product/issue-3.InterviewinMichiganQuarterlyReview,October2013. http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/tag/persis-karim/

Persis M. Karim Page 13 Vita “NewWindowsintotheIranianAmericanExperience.”InterviewinWorldLiteratureTodayonline, May15,2013;http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/new-windows-iranian-american-experience- interview-anita-amirrezvani-persis-karim#.UzQt61yglbA/InterviewwithAsiaSociety,NewYorkin: http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/interview-new-iranian-american-anthology-sets-literary-tremorsInterviewonKQEDFORUM,88.5FM,SanFranciscowithMichaelKrasny,May5,2013. https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2013/05/08/iranian-american-fiction/Interviewon“VoicesoftheMiddleEast”KPFA94.1FM,Berkeley,June5,2013.InterviewonUtahPublicRadiowithLeeSmith,Hostof“TheMorningShow,”October16,2007.InterviewonRadioFreeEurope,November9,2006.InterviewonSanFrancisco’sKALW,“UpFront,”(NewAmericanMedia),October26,2006.InterviewonBBC,“TheWord”withHarrietGilbert,London,England,October3,2006.“StartingaNewConversationaboutIran.”InterviewwithJournalistOmidMemarian,InterPressService NewsAgency,September17,2006.InterviewonSanFrancisco’sKQED“Forum”withMichaelKrasny,June29,2006. https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2006/06/29/iranian-women-writers/"LiteratureGivesBirthtoaMovement"(interview/feature)byJessicaYadegaran,inContraCostaTimes, June26,2006.InterviewonKALW“YourCallwithMaryAmbrose,”SanFrancisco,CA,June20,2006.

InterviewonCBC(CanadianBroadcasting)“AllinAWeekend”withAnnaAsmikopolous,Montreal, Canada,June2,2006.

InterviewonKPFA“VoicesoftheMiddleEast,”Berkeley,CA,March14,2006.InterviewonNationalPublicRadio(NPR)“AllThingsConsideredWeekendEdition,”hostedby JackiLyden,November21,1999LiteraryReadings/Events“NewLandscapesofAmerica:AReadingofTremors”BiennialConferenceoftheInternationalSociety forIranianStudies,MontrealCanada,August7,2014.Tremors:NewFictionbyIranianAmericanWritersatBookPassage,CorteMadera,March15,2014.“OfftheRichterScale:IranianAmericanFictionandaReadingandDiscussionofTremors:New FictionbyIranianAmericanWriters,”LitquakePanel,October19,2013.

Persis M. Karim Page 14 Vita “WritingHumanRights:LiteratureasaWindowintoIran,”LitquakePanel,KoretAuditorium,San FranciscoPublicLibrary,October13,2011.“LegacyofPoetryDay,”SanJoseStateUniversity,April29,2013.Tremors:NewFictionbyIranianAmericanWritersatBooksmith,SanFrancisco,CA,March24,2013.“SecondAnnualPoetryInvitationalattheSanJoseMuseumofArt(Poemsinspiredbyexhibitsat themuseum),SanJose,CA,April14,2011.“ACelebrationofMiddleEasternPoetry,”MiddleEasternHeritageCelebration,SanJoseCity College,April12,2011.“WritingHumanRights:AReadingbyWritersoftheIranianDiaspora,”AssociationofWriters andWritingProgramsAnnualConference,Washington,D.C.,February2,2011.“InSolidaritywithWritersandJournalistsinIran:AssociationofIranianAmericanWriters ReadingandMusicalPerformancetoBenefitIranianHumanRights,”Dr.MartinLutherKing, Jr.Library,SanJose,CA,June19,2010.“WeareAllIran:AReadingbyIranianAmericanPoets,”SplitthisRockPoetryFestival, Washington,D.C.,March13,2010.“TheWarisNotOver:WritingAboutIraqandtheCaseoftheAl-MutanabbiStreetCoalition:A ReadingandDiscussion,”SplitthisRockPoetryFestival,Washington,D.C.,March11,2010.“Al-MutanabbiStreetStartsHere,”readingsbyAmericanandIraqiPoets,CivilianArtsWorks Project,Washington,D.C.,March10,2010.“WeareAllIran:AReadingbyAssociationofIranianAmericanWritersinHonorOftheGreen MovementinIran,”SanFranciscoPublicLibrary,December12,2009.“InsideStorytime:IRAN”(readinganddiscussion)CaféRoyale,SanFrancisco,CA, November19,2009.PoetryReadingatWillowGlenLibrary(featuredpoet),PoetryCenterSanJoseReadingSeries, November9.2009.PersianArtsFestivalandBoweryPoetryClubLiterarySeries(featuredpoet),BoweryPoetryClub, NewYork,NY,September18,2009.“TheReadPoetryReadingwithGuestPoet,PersisKarim,”MoorparkCollege,Moorpark,CA, April15,2009.“AReadingtoMarkthe2009IranianElectionsinIran:AssociationofIranianAmerican Writers,”IntersectionfortheArts,SanFrancisco,CA,July26,2009.“WestofIstanbul:WritersfromtheMuslimWorld,”LitquakePanel,2008,MechanicsInstitute Library,SanFrancisco,CA,October6,2008.

Persis M. Karim Page 15 Vita “WritersWhoMakeYouThink,”LitquakePanel/Reading,2008,SanFranciscoPublicLibrary, SanFrancisco,CA,October6,2007.FeaturedGuestReading(poetry),SquawValleyCommunityofWriters,SquawValley,CA, August6,2007.BenefitReadingforIntersectionfortheArts(inconjunctionwithTaranehHemami’s“MostWanted ArtExhibit”)IntersectionfortheArts,SanFrancisco,CA,June13,2007.Readingandbooksigning(withMarjanKamali),MiddleEastandMiddleEasterAmericanCenter, TheGraduateCenter,CUNY,NewYork,NY,April30,2007.ReadingandDiscussionofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranian Diaspora,”attheIranianAlliancesAcrossBordersConfernce,NewYorkUniversity, NewYork,NYApril28,2007.“AReadingbyBayAreaWritersofMiddleEasternHeritage,”EvergreenValleyCollege,SanJose, CA,March28,2007.“Iranian-AmericanCulturalSpotlight”attheSanMateoPublicLibrary,SanMateo,CA, March11,2007.Readingandbook-signing,“SanJoseInternationalWomen’sDay,”sponsoredbyIranian FederatedWomen’sClubandPayvand,LePetitTrianonTheatre,SanJose,CA,March8, 2007.Poetryreadingwith“WaverlyWriters,”FriendsMeetingHouse,PaloAlto,CA,February2, 2007.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, PleasantonLibrary,Pleasanton,CA,January28,2007.“LiteraturefromtheAxisofEvil,”featuredpoet,BookPeople,Austin,TX,January21,2007.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, UniversityofTexasatAustin,CenterforMiddleEasternStudies,January19,2007.“EnemyNations,EmergingVoices,”(featuredpoet),KoretAuditorium,FranciscoPublicLibrary, November29,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, DeAnzaCommunityCollege,Cupertino,CA,November15,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, ThePoetryCenter,SanFranciscoStateUniversity,SanFrancisco,CA,November9,2006.Featuredpoetandbook-signingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenof theIranianDiaspora,PersianStudies,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,MD, November2,2006.

Persis M. Karim Page 16 Vita ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora,Green Library,StanfordUniversity,PaloAlto,CA,October11,2006.“TheMessageMatters:CommunalVoices”SanFranciscoLitQuake(readingbyPersis

Karim,MaxineHongKingston,KimSchuck,AweleMakeba,DennisFritiznger,”SanFranciscoMainLibrary,SanFrancisco,October8,2006.

ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, Dr.SamuelM.JordanCenterforPersianStudies,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,Irvine, CA, October6,2006.“WomenWritersoftheIranianDiaspora”(featuredpoet),RiversidePublicLibrary,Riverside,CA, October5,2006.“AnEveningofIranianLiterature,”ThePerformanceLoft,Redlands,CA,October4,2006.“WritingaboutPoliticsandPlace,”WildWomenWritingLiterarySalon,MonticelloInn,San Francisco,CA,September6,2006. ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, sponsoredbytheCommonwealthClubofSiliconValley,MartinLutherKing,Jr.Library,San Jose,CA,August31,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, PoliticsandProseBookstore,Washington,D.C.August25,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, InternationalIranianStudiesConference,KhaliliTheater,SchoolofOrientalandAfrican Languages,August3,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, IntersectionfortheArts,SanFrancisco,CA,July18,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, LabyrinthBooks,NewYork,NY,July17,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, AmazonBookstoreCooperative,Minneapolis,MN,July13,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, SponsoredbyLevantineCulturalCenter,BeverlyHillsPublicLibrary,June18,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora,Book Passage,TamalVista,CA,July6,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, IntroducedbyCaliforniaPoet-Laureate,AlYoung,CityLightsBookstore,SanFrancisco, CA,June15,2006.

Persis M. Karim Page 17 Vita ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, SponsoredbyAnarCulturalOrganization,MedjoolRestaurant,SanFrancisco,CA, June11,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiasporain conjunctionwith“WeAreHere”CrossConnectionsArtExhibit,OliverArtCenter, CaliforniaCollegeoftheArts,Oakland,CA,June10,2006.ReadingofLetMeTellYouWhereI’veBeen:NewWritingbyWomenoftheIranianDiaspora, MileEndLibrary,Montreal,Quebec,Canada,June4,2006.PoetryReading,EcstaticMonkeyReadingSeries,ModernTimesBookstore,SanFrancisco,CA, January12,2006.CreativeWriting/Poetry“StrikethisHammer!”inCultureStrikeMagazine,July2016http://www.culturestrike.org/magazine/strike- hammer“Letters”&“AdvicetoWriters,”inPorterGulchReview,CabrilloCollege,CA,Spring2016.“LeavingGhazal,”“PinkOctober,”“RousedfromSleepbyPoetry,”“Reciprocity,”inLeafbyLeaf,Evergreen College,SanJose,CA,Spring2016.“Earth,”“Wind,”“Water,”“Fire,”inFiberandPoetryCollection,RunningRiverPress,January2016.“LifeRaft”&“InGaza,”inWhiteWallReview,RyersonUniversity,Toronto,Canada,Fall2015.“DoestheLandRememberMe?”inPoemsforMamilla,2014.“WaystoCounttheDead,”inAl-MutanabbiStreetStartsHere.Oakland:PMPress,2012.“WhatMyStepsonCouldn’tSay,”inwww.shortpoem.org,June23,2011.“OtherMothers,”inForeignPolicyInFocus(FPIF)www.fpif.org,June15,2011.“PoemforaMissedChance,”inwww.shortpoem.org,May29,2011.“PoemInspiredbyRobertMappelthorpe’s‘Portraits’(partoftheEkphrasisPoetryReading) April4,2011,inwww.facebook/SanJoseMuseumofArt(nodatelisted)“OtherMothers,”PoemoftheWeek,www.blogthisrock.blogspot.com,April15,2011.“InPraiseofBigNoses,”TheAtlantaReview,pp.45-46,Spring/Summer,2010.“OldAge,”www.shortpoem.org,May10,2010.“SignsofMiddleAge,”www.shortpoem.org,January25,2010.

Persis M. Karim Page 18 Vita “Pomegranates,”inThePoetryofIranianWomen:AContemporaryAnthology.NewYork: ReelContentPress,2010.“TheUltimateFreedom,”inwww.iranian.com,September6,2009.“ATruththatHasLeftthemShaking,”ForeignPolicyinFocus,www.fpif.org,August27,2009.“Devotion,”Palehouse,www.palehouse.org,September2009.“MyCousinandITrytoHaveHope”(onthe2009IranianElections),NewAmericaMedia, www.newamericamedia.org,June26,2009.“WaystoCounttheDead,“inCallalloo,vol.46,NewYork,NY,Fall2009.“BodyCount,”inpemmican:anonlinemagazineofpoetry,www.pemmicanpress.com, September,2008.“MiddleEasternTransactions,”inpemmican:anonlinemagazineofpoetry,www.pemmicanpress.com, September,2008.“Rumi’sConversationwithShamsontheOccasionofhis800thBirthday,”inThePedestalMagazine, www.thepedestalmagazine.com,Issue46,June-August2008.“HawkonaLampost”inHeartLodge:HonoringtheHouseofthePoet,vol.4,Denver,CO,Summer 2008.“Conversation”and“LaCuidadora,”inReed:AJournalofPoetryandProse,Vol.61,SanJose,CA,2008“NoRegrets,”inTheNewVerseNews,www.newversenews.blogspot.com,November7,2007.“DisasterontheHorizon”inRedWheelbarrowLiteraryMagazine,vol.8,Cupertino,CA,2007.“SouthBayPalms,”and“ButterfliesandFrogs,”inLeaf-by-Leaf:EvergreenValleyCollege,San

Jose,CA,Spring2007.“WhaleandAshes,”inCaseura:JournalofthePoetryCenterSanJose,SanJose,CA,Spring 2007.“AftertheBleeding,”inFreshHotBread:WaverlyWriters,PaloAlto,CA,2007.“Baba’sPassing,”inPoetryFlash,No.298,Berkeley,CA,Fall2006.“WalkDowntheBerkeleyPier,”inReed:AJournalofPoetryandProse,Vol.59, SanJose,CA,2006.“ConversationwithNeruda,”inAlimentum:TheLiteratureofFood,NewYork,NY, Summer2006.

Persis M. Karim Page 19 Vita “AxisofEvil,”DawnontheFallEquinox,”“TheExecution,”“Baba’sPassing,”“Aging,”and

“NotesfromaDo-RagehPoet”inCaesura:TheJournalofthePoetryCenterSanJose,CA,Fall2005.

“Pomegranates”inReedMagazine:AJournalofPoetryandProse,vol.58, SanJose,CA,2005.“OdetotheEggplant,”indi-verse-city,AnthologyoftheAustinInternationalPoetryFestival, Austin,TX,Spring2005.“AConversationBetweenJelaluddinRumiandPabloNerudaOntheCentenaryofPablo’sBirth” inHeartlodge:HonoringtheHouseofthePoet,Denver,CO,Spring2005.“Hybrid,”inAsianAmericanLiterature,Columbus:McGraw-HillCo.,Inc.,2001.“Hybrid,”publishedintheSanFranciscoChronicle’s“NewsInEducationProject,”

November7,2001.UniversityCommitteesandServiceDirector,PersianStudies,2011-presentDeans’LeadershipAcademy,2016-2017FellowshipofFacultyWomen,2014-presentCampusClimateCommittee,2010-2013CampusReadingCommittee,2006-2014MiddleEasternStudies,DepartmentofHumanities,Advisor/Coordinator,2009-presentInternationalProgramsandStudentsCommittee,SJSU,2008-2011GraduateStudiesandResearchCommittee,SJSU,2005-2008FacultyAdvisor,StudentAssociationforMiddleEasternStudies,2008-2013EnglishandComparativeLiteratureDepartmentCommitteesandServiceCampusWritingCommitteeRecruitmentCommittee,2016-2017CreativeWritingGraduateCommittee,2001-presentRetention,TenureandPromotionCommittee,2010-2013SJSU150thAnniversaryCommemorationCommittee,2006-2008PublicityCommittee,CurriculumCommittee1999-2002MajorAdvisor,DepartmentofEnglishandComparativeLiterature,2000-2002and2007-2013FacultyAdvisor,EnglishSociety,SJSU,2001-2002MembershipinProfessionalAssociationsModernLanguageAssociationInternationalSocietyforIranianStudiesMiddleEastStudiesAssociationMELUS:Multi-EthnicLiteraturesoftheUnitedStatesAmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociationAmericanStudiesAssociation

Persis M. Karim Page 20 Vita OtherProfessionalExperienceCulturalAdvisoryMember,DiasporaArtsConnection,2015-presentPreparingFutureProfessors,StanfordUniversity,FacultyMentor,2015-2016Founder,Co-Director,AssociationofIranianAmericanWriters(AIAW),2008-2013.AdvisoryBoard,LitMinds.org,SanFrancisco,CA,2007-2011ExecutiveCommittee,WestAsianLiteraturesDiscussionGroup,MLA1998-2003FacultyAdvisor,Ph.D.Candidate,MahmoudArghavan,AmericanStudiesProgram, FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany,2009-2013ScholarOutsideReviewer,SyracuseUniversityPress,2004-presentScholarOutsideReviewer,UniversityofArkansasPress,2005-presentScholarOutsideReviewer,TheFeministPress,2003-presentLanguagesFrench—speaking,andwritingabilityPersian—reading,speaking,writingabilitySpanish—reading,speaking,fairwritingabilityNorwegian—reading,speakingandwritingTeachingExperienceSanJoseStateUniversity,DepartmentofEnglish&ComparativeLiterature,1999-present

GraduateSeminarsComparativeLiterature208:MagicalRealismAcrosstheGlobeComparativeLiterature208:BannedBooksandNovelIdeas—LiteratureandCensorshipComparativeLiterature208:ColonialandImperialEncountersinLiteratureofthe

MiddleEast&NorthAfricaComparativeLiterature208:PostcolonialLiteratureandTheoryComparativeLiterature208:AnglophoneLiteratureofAfrica,AsiaandtheCaribbeanEnglish230:WaltWhitmanandtheBardicTraditionEnglish240:PoetryasSpiritualJourneyEnglish240:PoetryandPolitics

UpperDivisionCoursesMiddleEastStudies145:MiddleEastTraditionsGeography112:IranandtheWest(Nations,CulturesandTerritorialDisputes)English117B:GlobalLiteratureandCinema(IranandtheIranianDiaspora)English123B:LiteratureoftheAfricanContinentEnglish190:LiteratureandCultureafter9/11(EnglishHonorsSeminar)English165:LiteratureofArab,IranianandAfghanAmericanWritersEnglish165:FromEmancipationProclamationtoBlackLivesMatter—AfricanAmerican

LiteratureandThoughtComparativeLiterature122:DisturbingWomen:WomenAuthorsinaGlobalContextEnglish190:LiteratureandSatire(EnglishHonorsSeminar)English169:EthnicityinAmericanLiteratureEnglish123A:LiteratureoftheAmericasEnglish123B:LiteratureoftheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica

Persis M. Karim Page 21 Vita

English123:GlobalizationandEverydayLifeComparativeLiterature121:IntroductiontoComparativeLiteratureComparativeLiterature122:IntroductiontoPostcolonialLiteratureandTheoryComparativeLiterature122:BannedBooksandNovelIdeasfromGalileototheInternetEnglish166:AmericanLiterature1945-presentEnglish131:PoetryWorkshop:WorldPoetryasInspirationLowerDivisionCoursesEnglish68B:AmericanLiteratureSurvey1865-presentEnglish71:IntroductiontoCreativeWritingMUSE96HQ(FreshmanSeminar):BeyondtheHeadlines:Literature,FilmandCulture

oftheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica

UniversityofCaliforniaatSantaCruz,Lecturer,1998-1999 “SelfandSociety,”StevensonCollegeCoreCourse “WritingSelf,ReadingRace:Asian-American,African-American,andChicano/a Literature,”KresgeCollege “AmericansinaChangingWorld,”MerrillCollegeCoreCourse “FromHanoitoHollywood:RepresentationsofVietnaminFilmandFiction”UniversityofTexasatAustin,AssistantInstructor1995-1988 “IntroductiontoMiddleEasternHistory” “IntroductiontotheModernMiddleEast” “IntroductiontotheModernMiddleEast” “LiteratureandSociety:Male/FemaleTraditionandChange intheMiddleEast”