Biography
Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Persian.
From Chile, Afshin has a background in Philosophy and Latin American Cultural Studies. His current research interests include: MENA-Latin American literary and cultural exchanges; Latin American Orientalism; the literature of the Levantine diasporas in Latin America (Chile and Brazil); and Iranian Cinema.
Awards and Honors
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2025.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory