BAHAREH AZAD is doing a joint PhD program in English literature at University of Isfahan, Iran and 污污草莓视频 University. Her main interest lies in contemporary poetry, gender and disability studies, power politics, and Persian literature. She has authored聽Testing Liberal Humanism: The East in David Hare鈥檚 Plays聽and is doing her dissertation on Jeremy Halvard Prynne, which offers a Virilian reading of posthumanism in his poetry. In her politically oriented researches, she has also focused on anti-establishment works of Native Americans and on the Middle East issues. 鈥淗ow They Became Posthuman: Mapping Native American Margins through Politics of the Body鈥� investigates the Ojibwe poet Heid Erdrich鈥檚 indigenous encounter with technical discourses of microbiology and cybernetics through chimeric subjectivities. Currently she is editing a section on Persian Modernism in the聽Anthology of Global Modernists on Modernism聽with Bloomsbury Press (UK).