Laetitia Nanquette

Associate Professor Laetitia Nanquette is a scholar specializing in modern and contemporary Middle Eastern literatures, particularly Persian literature, at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the School of Arts, Design & Architecture. She has been at UNSW since 2013 after completing academic training in France, the United Kingdom, Iran, and the United States (as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard University).

Her primary research interests include:

• Modern and contemporary Persian literature
• Print Culture and Publishing
• Book History
• World Literature
• Sociology of literature
• Digital Humanities
• Contemporary Iranian culture
• Literature and globalization
• Migrant cultural studies

Nanquette's scholarly work focuses on the production and circulation of Iranian literature in Iran and globally, with special attention to the post-Islamic Revolution period. Her major 2021 book "Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP) analyzes how Iranian literary works are produced, circulated, and received both within Iran and internationally. Her recent publications consistently examine censorship mechanisms, diaspora literary production, and the global circulation of Iranian texts, reflecting her expertise in book history and sociological approaches to literature.

Among her notable achievements:

• Australia Research Council DECRA Fellow (2015-2019)
• Associated EUME Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin (2023/2024)
• Associate Editor for Iranian Studies (Cambridge UP)
• Editor for the Modern Persian literature section of Abstracta Iranica

Nanquette has successfully supervised multiple PhD students to completion, including award-winning theses on topics ranging from contemporary Iranian romance novels to Iranian horror cinema. She is also active in translation work, having published translations of Iranian short stories into French and Persian texts into English.