Razieh Araghi is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of International Letters and Cultures. Her research explores the intersections of modernity, translation, and women’s intellectual history. Her current project examines how Iranian and Ottoman/Turkish women writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped discourses of modernity through translation, adaptation, and self-authorship in periodicals and other media. She also works on the role of cross-cultural literary exchanges and translation in redefining narratives of modernization beyond Eurocentric frameworks.
Her broader research and teaching interests include Middle Eastern literary modernities, feminist theory, world literature, and translation studies. She also works on the circulation of French and English translations and their role in shaping cross-cultural literary exchanges.