Farzaneh Milani (Persian: فرزانه میلانی; born c. 1947) is an Iranian-born American scholar, author, poet, translator, and educator. Milani teaches Persian literature and women's studies at the University of Virginia; and serves as the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures.[1] She is also a poet, award-winning translator, and a recipient of the Carnegie Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Milani's 1992 book Veils and Words: the Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers (Syracuse, 1992), has seen its sixteenth printing.
Biography
Milani was born in Tehran, Iran in about 1947, she was the only daughter in a family of five children. Milani had attended Catholic co-educational French schools before relocating to the United States.[citation needed]
In 1986, after a four-year stint at her alma mater as an instructor of Persian Language and Literature, she took a position at the University of Virginia. At the University of Virginia, she has been the recipient of several awards, including the "All University Teaching Award" in 1998, and a "University Seminar's Teaching Award" in 2001. She received a Storr's Fellowship in 2001; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2002–2003; and was a Carnegie Fellow from 2006 to 2007 for a project entitled "Remapping the Cultural Geography of Iran: Islam, Women, and Mobility."[4] Her translation (with Kaveh Safa) of A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbahani won the Lois Roth Literary Award in Translation.[5]
Her husband died in 2007.[2] She published Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement in 2011.[6] In 2012 Milani was voted "Woman of the Year" by the Iranian Women Studies Foundation (IWSF).[2]
Bibliography
Milani, Farzaneh. Forugh Farrokhzad (2016(: A Literary Biography with Unpublished Letters. This book is in Persian. PersianCircle; First Edition ISBN978-0991896417[7]