Bakhtiar Sajjadi
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Bakhtiar Sadjadi is a city in and the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 311,446, in 81,380 families....
, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
) is a Kurdish
Kurdish people
The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...
academician, writer and translator.
He got his BA degree in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University
Shahid Beheshti University
Shahid Beheshti University was formerly The National University of Iran . The university's name was changed during the cultural revolution in Iranian universities, 1980-82. It is located in Evin District and extends into Velenjak District in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on a main campus of...
in Tehran in 1998 and his MA in the same field from Tehran University in 2000. His academic career started when he began to teach in the English department of University of Kurdistan (Iran)
University of Kurdistan (Iran)
University of Kurdistan is the largest university in Iranian Kurdistan Province, located in south of Sanandaj. The University of Kurdistanwas ranked as the eighth top university in Iran in academic year 2007-2008 and was ranked as the first top developing university in Iran in academic year...
in Sanandaj in 2000. He received his PhD in English Literature from University of Exeter
University of Exeter
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in England in 2010. He also has a PhD degree in Philosophy from Pune University in India in 2007. He has more than 100 articles in English, Persian and Kurdish in different Journals, Conferences and Seminars. Also he has written and co-authored several books on Kurdish literature
Kurdish literature
Kurdish literature refers to literature written in Kurdish language. Literary Kurdish works have been written in one of the three main dialects of Gorani, Kurmanji and Sorani. Ali Hariri is one of the first well-known poets who wrote in Kurdish...
and literary criticism
Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...
and translated many books from English and Persian into Sorani-Kurdish. He has received a number of awards and prizes for his teaching and research in different academic institutions. He is currently Assistant Professor of English Literature in Department of English Literature and Linguistics in University of Kurdestan. He is also a member of the Kurdish Language Academy in Iran
Kurdish Language Academy in Iran
- Establishment :Kurdish Language Academy in Iran was established in Tehran in 2002 when the First Conference on Kurdish Language Teaching was held in 2002. More than 150 Iranian Kurdish writers, academicians, linguists and journalists participated in this conference and a dozen of articles on the...
.
His influence on contemporary studies on Kurdish Literature and Language has been acknowledged and recognised by different local press.
Academic certificates and theses
- BA in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti UniversityShahid Beheshti University
Shahid Beheshti University was formerly The National University of Iran . The university's name was changed during the cultural revolution in Iranian universities, 1980-82. It is located in Evin District and extends into Velenjak District in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on a main campus of...
in Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
, 1994-1998.
- MA in English Language and literature; The title of MA thesis: Neo-Marxist Approaches to Shakespeare: Althusserian, New Historicist and
Cultural Materialist Readings of Coriolanus in Tehran University, 1998-2000.
- PhD in Philosophy; the title of the thesis: The Manifestation of the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche in Post-Structuralism: From Critical Philosophy to Literary Theories, Pune University in India
India
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, 2003-2007.
- PhD in English Language and Literature; the title of the thesis:Investigating the Subject's Identity: The Critical Treatment of the Lacanian-Althusserian Dialectic and Subjectivity Formation in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, University of Exeter
University of Exeter
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in England, 2007-2010.
Selected Published Books
- An Analytical Dictionary of Literary and Critical Terms (Ferhengi Shikaraney Zarawey Edebi), Vol. I, Erbil: Aras Publications, 2004, co-authored with Mohadmad Mahmudi.
- Derbarey Diyalektiki Roshingeri(Notes on the Dialectics of Enlightenment), written by Morad Farhadpour, translated into Kurdish, SulaymaniyahSulaymaniyahSulaymaniyah is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq. It is the capital of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmar Range, Goizja Range and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with...
, Sardam Publishers, 2001 - A Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms, (Kurdish-English), SulaymaniyahSulaymaniyahSulaymaniyah is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq. It is the capital of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmar Range, Goizja Range and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with...
, Sardam Publishers, 2001,(co-authored Muhamad Mahmudi). - Twentieth-Century English Poetry, translated into Kurdish, SanandajSanandajSanandaj , also Romanized as Senneh and Sinneh) is a city in and the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 311,446, in 81,380 families....
, University of KurdistanUniversity of KurdistanUniversity of Kurdistan may refer to:* University of Kurdistan , Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan Province* University of Kurdistan - Hawler, Hawler , Kurdistan Region - Iraq...
Publications, 2003.(co-translated Omid Varzandeh). - Gellaley Paradaymi Peresendini Kulturi (A Plan for the Paradigm of Cultural Development), written in Kurdish, ArbilArbilArbil / Hewlêr is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul...
, Aras Publishers, 2004. - Ferhengi Shikaraney Zarawey Edebi, Bergi Yekem (An Analytical Dictionary of Critical Terms), Vol. I, in Kurdish, ArbilArbilArbil / Hewlêr is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul...
, Aras Publishers, 2004,(co-authored Muhamad Mahmudi) - Az Roman ta Mellat:Pajuheshi dar Goftemane Revaiye Farsi ve Kordi (Nation and Novel: A Study of Persian and Kurdish Narrative Doscourse) written by Dr. Hashim AhmadzadehHashim AhmadzadehHashem Ahmadzadeh is a well-known Iranian and Kurdish scholar, presently a lecturer in the Kurdish Studies Centre of the University of Exeter.- Biography :...
), translated into Persian, SanandajSanandajSanandaj , also Romanized as Senneh and Sinneh) is a city in and the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 311,446, in 81,380 families....
, University of KurdistanUniversity of KurdistanUniversity of Kurdistan may refer to:* University of Kurdistan , Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan Province* University of Kurdistan - Hawler, Hawler , Kurdistan Region - Iraq...
Publications, 2007. - Mikhayl Baxtin: Sewady Wituwej, Pekenin u Azadi (Mikhail BakhtinMikhail BakhtinMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language...
: Passion of Dialogue, Laughter and Freedom), written by Mikhail Bakhtin et al., translated into Kurdish, ArbilArbilArbil / Hewlêr is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul...
, Mukiryani Publishers, 2008.
External links
- http://www.uok.ac.ir/
- http://www.korizanisti.ir/English/tabid/76/Default.aspx