Houra Yavari

Houra Yavari, a graduate of Tehran University and Paris Sorbonne University, is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, Consulting Editor on Modern Persian Fiction to the Encyclopædia Iranica and a member of the International Society For Iranian Studies. She has published extensively on topics in psychoanalysis and Persian literature, including Psychoanalysis and Literature in Iran: Two Texts, Two Selves, Two Worlds (2005), Living in the Mirror (2004) , Persian Fiction and Modernity (2009.)

Most recently she helped compile and edited a A selection of Karim Emami’s columns entitled Karim Emami on Modern Iranian Culture, Literature and Art.