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Dr. Leila Pazargadi

Department of Humanities

Specializations: English and Comparative Literature

Email: Leila.Pazargadi@nevadastate.edu
Phone: (702) 992-2657

Biography

Leila M. Pazargadi is Professor of English at 麻豆原创, where she is currently teaching composition, literature, and social justice courses on gender, immigration, ethnic American identity, resistance and revolution, and postcolonial literature. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Comparative Literature with a certification in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. She also received her Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from UCLA in 2007 and her Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literary Studies from Occidental College in 2004.  In 2014, she was one of five recipients of , honored as the Erica J. Murray ’01 Young Alumna seal awardee for her teaching and service efforts. In 2018, she received 麻豆原创's Faculty Award for her teaching efforts in the humanities.

At NSU, she is most proud of her work having co-founded the in 2012 and having served as Director of its Summer Bridge until 2024. This six-week intensive program aimed to empower first-generation and underrepresented students to fulfill their academic and service potential as part of their college-going experience. Ultimately, it was Nepantla’s hope that students carve out an  in higher education by giving back, serving the community, and embracing cultural difference as a place of knowledge and power. 

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature
    University of California, Los Angeles
    09/01/2007 - 05/01/2012
  • Master of Arts in Comparative Literature
    University of California, Los Angeles
    09/01/2005 - 05/01/2007
  • Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literary Studies
    Occidental College
    08/01/2000 - 05/01/2004

Publications

  • 鈥淭he Art of Life Storytelling: Sharing and Exchanging Moments of Ambition in Summer Bridge Programs" in Teaching Life Writing: Theory, Methodology, and Practice
    Routledge
    04/01/2023
  • Encyclopedic Entry: Rabih Alameddine for Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 1980-2020
    Wiley Publishers
    02/01/2022
  • 鈥淭he Language of Food: Semiotics in Diana Abu-Jaber鈥檚 Gastrographies"
    Life Writing special issue 鈥淪elf/Culture/Writing: Autoethnography in the 21st Century
    09/01/2021
  • 鈥淓mbroidering Intergenerational Threads of a Roza: Stitching Together Women鈥檚 Stories and Solidarity in the Fabric of Diasporic Arab American Fiction" in Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood: Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in a Global Context
    Bloomsbury
    02/01/2022
  • "Testimonial Encounters in the Americas: Threading Community Together via Testimonial Disclosure鈥 in American Literatures
    University of Graz Publishing
    10/01/2021
  • "Iranian American Comedic Memoirs: Interrogating Race and Humor" in Diasporic Life Writing
    Iran Namag, University of Toronto
    07/01/2021
  • Chapter 8: Summer Bridge Programs: Critically championing inclusion by voicing student agency in Scholarly Engagement and Decolonisation: Views from South Africa, The Netherlands and the United States (pp. 215-250)
    African Sun Media, SUN PReSS
    05/01/2020
  • "Learning to Listen: The Power of Transnational Life Storytelling" in Trans Narratives
    Routledge
    05/01/2021
  • "Unfixing the autobiographical subject Fragmentation as aesthetics and identity in Rabih Alameddine鈥檚 I, the Divine" in Arab American Aesthetics
    Routledge
    02/01/2018
  • "Re/calling Scheherazad: Voicing Agency in Mohja Kahf鈥檚 Poetry"
    碍枚濒苍
    02/01/2017
  • "Picturing Q膩j膩r Persia: A Gift to Major-General Henry Creswicke Rawlinson"
    Getty Research Journal
    01/01/2014
  • Book Review: Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
    University of Hawai'i Press
    08/01/2020
  • Book Review of Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora by Nima Naghibi
    Cambridge University Press
    06/01/2022
  • Book Review of Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women by Elizabeth Teresa Howe
    Taylor & Francis
    04/01/2017
  • Book Review of Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene by Hamid Dabashi
    Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
    12/01/2017

Work Experience

  • Professor of English
    麻豆原创 鈥 Henderson, NV
    Dr. Pazargadi has been teaching English Literature at 麻豆原创 since 2012. 
    08/01/2012

Achievements

  • Faculty of the Year Award, Humanities, 麻豆原创 State College
    Award for Teaching
    03/30/2018
  • Erica J. Murray 鈥01 Young Alumna of the Year Seal Award, Occidental College
    Alumni Award for founding the Nepantla Program

    06/29/2014
  • iTeach Heritage Award, 麻豆原创 State
    Award for teaching excellence.
    04/30/2014