Mostafa AbedinifardMostafa Abedinifard is Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is currently working on two monographs, titled Satiric Modernity: Humor, Affect, and Nationalism in Iran and i>Men, Boys, and Manhood in Modern Iranian Literature, Culture, and Film. He has published articles in Asian Cinema, The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, Social Semiotics, de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial and Gender Studies, Iran Nameh: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Literary Criticism (Tehran), Mahoor Music Quarterly (Tehran), and elsewhere. Read More Read Less