Marjan Mohammadi received her PhD in Comparative Literature through a joint doctoral program between Northwestern University and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3). She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Paris Program in Critical Theory, the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, and the Mellon Foundation in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research interests include world literature, political theory and aesthetics, translation studies, and the cultural history of Iran and the Middle East more broadly. She is currently working on her manuscript, titled Iranian Allegories of Redemption: A Mourning History. The book traces the eastern history of hermeneutics, which is deeply entangled with the Persian poetic, theological, and philosophical tradition, to situate and negotiate the claims to modern Iranian sovereignty. Her research has appeared and is forthcoming in the journals of Comparative Critical Studies, Synthesis, CLCWeb, and in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Romantic Literature and Culture. She teaches courses with a focus on the conception of the state and power both in the ancient and modern worlds.