Marie Ostby

Marie Ostby is an assistant professor of English and Global Islamic Studies at Connecticut College. Her book in progress, “Genre without Borders: Reading Globally between Modern Iran and the West,” explores the relation of the intergeneric and the transnational, using Iranian art forms as a lens onto political questions in contemporary world literature.


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Exile Is Treading Water in a Strange Sea

Two recent stylistically unconventional novels by Iranian authors in diaspora explore the particular cultural loss of the exile, as distinct from that of the …

Exile Is Treading Water in a Strange Sea

Two recent stylistically unconventional novels by Iranian authors in diaspora explore the particular cultural loss of the exile, as distinct from that of the …