About the Faculty

Fereshteh Amanat-Kowssa
Senior Lector in Persian
fereshteh.amanat-kowssar@yale.edu
Office: HGS 322
Phone: 432-2253

Fereshteh Amanat-Kowssar is a Senior Lector in Persian language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Yale University. Her course offerings range from Elementary to Advanced Persian as well as two advanced seminars. She is currently teaching, for students of Persian, a seminar entitled "Identity and Change" and another, "A Thematic Survey of Modern Persian Literature." She is planning on teaching, as of next year, two new seminars on Iranian Cinema which is her other field of interest. One of the seminars will focus on Iranian Cinema as a medium of change entitled "Salaam Cinema" and the other, about women in Iranian cinema in contemporary Iran. She is also a published creative writer (in Persian) and has written a personal account of her mother's life entitled "The Outrage of Silence", published both in the United States and in Iran, for which she won the Isfahan Literary Prize in 2005. Her other book, published in the United States is called: "We, Children of the Alley: Sketches of Life in the '50s and '60s." Her forthcoming book is a memoir of her childhood which is being illustrated in Iran and will be published by Roshangaran Foundation for Women's Studies in Iran.