Captive, Forugh Farrokhzad, translated and edited by Farzaneh Milani, New York: Rhombus Press, (forthcoming 2017).All University Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Virginia, 1998.Nominated: Virginia Teacher of the Year Award, 1999.University Seminar's Teaching Award, 2001.National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002-2003.Mirhady Endowed Lecture Chair, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2005.Lois Roth Literary Award in Translation for A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani (with Kaveh Safa).Iranian Woman of the Year, 2012, International Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation (Ceremony: Jat Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston).Latifeh Yarshater Book Award for Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement, presented by the International Society for Iranian Studies.Nelson Endowed Chair of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures Chosen as one the top 26 Women Professors in Virginia.Zintl Leadership Award, University of Virginia, 2015.1979-1981 Lecturer, Persian Language and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles.1984-1986 Lecturer, Persian Language and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles.1986-1992 Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies, University of Virginia.1992-2003 Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

2000-2001 Interim Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality.2003- Professor of Iranian Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality.2003-2006 Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

2009-2010 McAndless Distinguished Chair, Eastern Michigan University.2010-2014 Director, Middle East Studies Program.2010- 2018 Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures.1968-70 B.A., (Magna cum laude) French Literature, California State University Hayward.

1973-75 M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Comparative Literature - Concentration: Persian and French Literature.

1975-79 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Comparative Literature - Concentration: Persian, French, and English Literature - Dissertation title: Forugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective.

A former Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and former director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department, Milani was also a Carnegie Fellow (2006-2007). She has presented more than 250 lectures nationally and internationally. Magazine, Readers Digest, USA Today, and N.P.R.’s All Things Considered. She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Ms. She has served as the guest editor for two special issues of Nimeye-Digar, Persian Language Feminist Journal (on Simin Daneshvar and Simin Behbahani), IranNameh (on Simin Behbahani), and Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies (on Simin Behbahani). Milani has published over 100 articles, epilogues, forewords, and afterwords in Persian and in English. A past president of the Association of Middle Eastern Women Studies in America, Milani was the recipient of the All University Teaching Award in 1998 and nominated for Virginia Faculty of the Year in 1999. Her dissertation, “Forugh Farrokhzad: A Feminist Perspective” is a critical study of the poetry of a pioneering Iranian poet.

Ima survivor sanctuary twitter.Farzaneh Milani completed her graduate studies in Comparative Literature at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1979.

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