Biography
Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Persian, Arabic.
Research Interests
MENA-Latin American literary and cultural exchanges; Latin American Orientalism; the literature of the Levantine diasporas in Latin America (Chile and Brazil); Iranian Cinema.
Education
MA in Latin American Studies, Universidad de Chile. (2022)
BA in Philosophy, Universidad de Chile. (2018)
Grants
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2025.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Recent Publications
IRANI, Afshin & CARMONA, Miguel. "On Palestinian Latin Americanism: Reading Walter Garib and Mahfud MassÃs". Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 13(1), 2026. https://doi.org/10.24847/v13i12026.566
IRANI, Afshin. "Holy Spider y el 'Persian Noir'". La Fuga: Revista de Cine, 28, 2025. https://lafuga.cl/holy-spider-y-el-persian-noir/1230