Maryam Sanjabi

Maryam Sanjabi is senior lecturer in the Department of French at Yale. She holds a doctorate in French literature from Sorbonne IV (1992) and specializes in eighteenth-century literature. Her dissertation was on “The Influence of the Voltairian Polemics on the Pamphlets of the Iranian Intellectuals of Pre-Constitutional Period (1866-1906).” Among her publications are “Le Royaume Farfelu de Clara Malraux,” Bookbird, vol. 36, no. 2 (Summer 1998), 13-19; “Mardumguriz: An Early Persian translation of Moliere’s Le Misanthrope,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 30 (1998), 251-270; and “Akhundzada and his Voltaire: Re-reading the Enlightenment,” Iranian Studies, 28: 1-2, Fall-Winter 1995, 29-60. She formerly was professor of French at Southern Illinois University and before that taught at Tehran University and the University of California (Chico).