Laetitia Nanquette is Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She was trained in France, the United Kingdom, Iran and the United States, before moving to Australia. Her second book, based on fieldwork in Iran and in the Iranian diaspora, is Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution. Production and Circulation in Iran and the World, and available from Edinburgh University Press.