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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi - CV

Education

Ph.D., English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2005.

M.Phil., English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University, October, 2000.

M.A., English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University, May, 1998.

M.A. in English Literature, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tx, 1996.

Honors B.A., Brown University, Providence, RI, May 1991,
Department of Modern Literature and Society / Modern Culture and Media.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative and World Literature, San Francisco State University

2005 - present

Coursework

  • CWL 230, World Literature (GE)
  • CWL 250, Fables and Tales (GE)
  • CWL 420, Travel and the Literary Imagination
  • CWL 421, Celtic Literature
  • CWL 423, Comparative European Medieval Literature
  • CWL 424, Multicultural Middle Ages
  • ENG 501, Age of Chaucer
  • CWL 800, Intro to Graduate Study in Comparative Literature (Theory)
  • CWL 815, Topics in Critical Theory: Anthropology and Lit Criticism
  • CWL 820, Medieval Encounters
  • CWL 896, Directed Reading: Orals
  • CWL 898, Masters Thesis
  • Directed Readings (6 completed)
  • M.A. Oral Exam committees (12 completed)

Preceptor, The Core Program: Literature-Humanities: European Literary-Philosophical Masterpieces, Columbia University

2004-2005

Instructor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

1999-2003

Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin

1994-1997

Publications

  • Book in Progress: 'In Light of Another´s Word': the Multi-Voiced Ethnography of Medieval Europe
  • "The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck´s Mission to Mongolia," New Medieval Literatures, vol. 10 (2008).
  • "Casting a 'Sideways Glance' at the Crusades: the Voice of the Other in Joinville´s Vie de Saint Louis," Forthcoming, Exemplaria: a Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, vol. 22 (2010).
  • Review of The New Concise History of the Crusades: Updated Student Edition by Thomas F. Madden, The Medieval Review 07.10.31, October, 2007.

Honors and Awards

  • San Francisco State University Presidential Award, Research Leave, 2007-2008
  • San Francisco State University Vice-President´s Award, Spring 2007
  • San Francisco State University Affirmative Action Award, Spring 2006
  • Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2003-2004
  • Presidential Fellowship, Columbia University, 1998-2003
  • A. W. Mellon Research Fellowship for study of Arabic in Fez, Morocco, Summer, 1999
  • Miron Cristo-Loveanu M. A. Essay Prize in English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1998. Thesis Title: "Bede´s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum: Christian Historiography from ´the Outermost Edges of the World.´"
  • Marjorie Hope Nicolson Fellowship Award, in English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1997-1998
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Awards for the study of Persian, Spring 1998 and Summer 1995
  • Teaching Fellowship at UT-Austin in English Literature, 1994-1997
  • Honors B. A. in Literature and Society, Brown University, 1991

Professional Activities and Service

  • Member, SFSU Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) Group, 2005 to present
  • Member, SFSU European Studies Faculty
  • Standing Member: The Medieval Academy of America, Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Medieval Academy of the Pacific
  • Elected Representative, University Honorary Degree Committee, 2009-2011
  • Elected Representative, College of Humanities Scholarship Committee, 2008-2011
  • Graduate Coordinator, Comparative and World Literature, from Fall 2008
  • Representative of Comparative and World Literature Department, HUMTEC University Committee, SFSU, Spring 2007
  • Faculty Advisor, Undergraduates and Graduates in Comparative and World Literature, 2005 to present
  • Administrator, CWL Departmental List-Serve, 2006 to present
  • Faculty Sponsor, Comparative Literature Students Association (CLSA) Student Conference, November, 2005
  • Faculty Representative, Comparative and World Literature, Sneak Preview, All University Open House for incoming students, Spring 2006

Conferences and Invited Presentations

  • “Casting a ‘Sideways Glance’ at the Crusades: the Voice of the Other in Joinville’s Vie de Saint Louis,” First Inaugural Comparative Literature Colloquium Series, SFSU, Fall 2008
  • Chair, "Medieval Literature" session, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), November 2-3, 2007, Bellingham, WA
  • "Glancing sideways at the Crusades: Joinville´s Vie de Saint Louis", Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP), UCLA, Spring, 2007
  • Invited Presentation, Medieval Europe and the East, Prof. Ilona Vandergriff´s graduate German seminar (Ger 831), Spring 2007
  • Invited Presentation, Marjanne Satrapi´s Persepolis: the story of a childhood, Prof. Lucia Volk´s Anthropology of the Middle East class (Anth 319), Fall 2007
  • "Joinville´s Dialogic Imagination," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), UC-Riverside, Fall 2006
  • Annual Invited Presentation, "Writing Conference Papers and Abstracts," Comparative Literature Student´s Association Conference Presentation Workshop, Fall 2005 to present
  • Invited Presentation, "Advanced Scholarly Writing in Comparative Literature: From Idea to Print," CWL 825, September, 2006
  • Invited Presentation, "William of Rubruck in the Eyes of his Beholders", CWL 825, October, 2005
  • "Salvaging native culture, appropriating native voice: the cultural memory of Marie de France´s Lais", Invited Paper, Inter-University Doctoral Consortium, New York, NY, Spring 2005
  • "Telling Differences: ´Race´ and the Medieval Celtic Periphery," Invited Paper, Medieval Academy of America, Miami, Florida, Spring 2005
  • "William of Rubruck among the Mongols: a Medieval Traveler in the Eyes of his Beholders", Medieval Academy of America, Seattle, Washington, Spring 2004
  • "The Unstable Limits of Self and World in the Travels of John Mandeville", Conference In Honor of Robert W. Hanning, Columbia University, Fall 2003
  • Twelfth Annual Columbia Medieval Guild Conference, "Medieval Alterity: the other in the Middle Ages and the Middle Ages as Other," Senior Conference Organizer, Spring 2002
  • Columbia University English and Comparative Literature Conference, "Millennial Chaucer: Conversations on the Current State of Chaucer Studies," Senior Conference Organizer, Fall 1998
  • "Bede´s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum: Christian Historiography From the ´Outermost Edges of the World,´" Columbia Medieval Guild Conference: Medieval Historiography, Fall 1998
  • "Forbidden Glances: Theorizing the Harem", UT-Austin Conference on Women´s and Gender Studies, Spring 1997
  • "Historiography, Biography, and the Life of Muhammad", UT-Austin Graduate Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Spring 1996

Last Update: 8-23-2008

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