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Amin Erfani
Assistant Professor/Assessment Coordinator
Languages & Literatures

Biography

Amin Erfani

Degrees:

  • BA in French and Comparative Literature Stony Brook University (SUNY), 2003
  • Master’s degree in French, Stony Brook University (SUNY), 2004
  • Ph.D., in French & graduate certificates in Comparative Literature and Psychoanalytic Studies, Emory University, 2011

Amin Erfani received his BA in French and Comparative Literature followed by a master’s degree in French from Stony Brook University (SUNY). He subsequently received a Ph.D. in French with certificates in Comparative Literature and Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University. He joined the Languages and Literatures Department at Lehman College in 2013. He has offered courses at Lehman College ranging from elementary to advanced French language; French and Francophone literature; special topics on theater; 20th and 21st century French film and novel; interdisciplinary studies on modern France and the Francophone world; Comparative Literature in masterworks of ancient and medieval world literature; prison literature and writing in the Lehman Scholars Program. At the Graduate Center (CUNY), he has devised and taught a course on French and Francophone theater and theory across three different programs; he has also taught the Techniques of Literary Research course for first-year graduate students, while being part of various dissertation committees.

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