Amir Moosavi

Amir Moosavi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University – Newark, and co-organizer of the Seminar Aftermaths of War: Memory and Histories for the Future. His research and teaching interests cover modern Arabic and Persian literatures and the cultural history of the Middle East, with an emphasis on Iran, Iraq, and the Levant. At Rtugers – Newark, he teachs courses on Arabic and Persian fiction and film, world literature, translation studies, and war culture. He is particularly interested in how cultural production deals with violent pasts, wars, notions of transitional justice, representations of urban space, and the climate crisis. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript titled Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War.