Nasrin Rahimieh is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at McMaster University. Her research has focused on intercultural encounters between Iran and the West, modern Persian literature, literature of exile and displacement, women¹s writing, and post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. Her publications include Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays on Muslim Writers from the Middle East (Brill, 1990) and Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Heritage (Syracuse University Press, 2001). Her reviews and articles have appeared in Iranian Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Iran Nameh, The Middle East Journal, The Comparatist, Thamyris, Edebiyat, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Canadian Literature, New Comparison.