Dr Kayvan Tahmasebian

Kayvan Tahmasebian is a writer and researcher in comparative literary theory and criticism. He is a research fellow with the Global Literary Theory project. His research interests range across textual materialism, constellations of world literature, and the poetics of contingency. He was the principal investigator of TRANSMODERN (Untranslatable Modernity: Literary Theory from Europe to Iran), a project funded by the European Commission within Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (University of Birmingham, 2019–2021). 

He is the author of Isfahan’s Mold (Tehran: Goman, 2016), on the Iranian short story writer Bahram Sadeqi. His poetry has appeared in Notre Dame Review, the Hawai’i Review, Salt Hill, and Lunch Ticket, where it was a finalist for The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts (2017) and is collected in Lecture on Fear and Other Poems (Radical Paper Press, 2019). 

With Rebecca Ruth Gould, he coedited The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020) and co-translated High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi (The Operating System, 2019) and House Arrest: Poems of Hasan Alizadeh (Arc Publications, 2022).