Nasrin Rahimieh

Nasrin Rahimieh (born 1958) is an Iranian-born American literary critic, editor, and educator.

Rahimieh is the Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Humanities Core program at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Nasrin Rahimieh was born in 1958 in Bandar-e Anzali, Pahlavi Iran (now Iran).

Her early education was primarily in Bandar-e Anzali, with the exception of her senior year of high school spent as an exchange student in New London, Connecticut.

She attended college classes in Switzerland, before moving to Canada.

She has a B.A. degree in French and German, and M.A. degree in German literature from Dalhousie University; and a Ph.D. (1988) in comparative literature from the University of Alberta.

She is interested in research areas including Iranian cinema, Iranian diaspora, women's writing and modern Persian literature.

After Rahimeh immigrated to Canada, she began her career as professor in Alberta teaching at the University of Alberta, and at McMaster University.

At McMaster's she served as the Dean of Humanities.

Rahimieh is the Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Humanities Core program at UCI.

She previously served as the Maseeh Chair and Director of Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at UCI.

She is a past-President of the International Society for Iranian Studies, Middle East Studies Association of North America, and the Canadian Comparative Literature Association.

In 1990, she published the notable book Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World (1990).

Her articles have appeared in scholarly publications including Iranian Studies, and Comparative Literature Studies.