Omid Azadibougar

Omid Azadibougar is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at Hunan Normal University, China. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Leuven, Belgium. Before moving to Hunan Normal University, he was an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Shiraz University (2016–19), a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Göttingen (2014–16), and a Visiting Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong (2012–14). He is the author of The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction and Form in the Periphery (2014) and World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity (2020).