Morteza Lak
دکتر مرتضی لک
Assistant Professor of English Literary Studies
استادیار ادبیات زبان انگلیسی
Dr Morteza Lak morteza.lak@gmail.com; morteza-lak@srbiau.ac.ir
Education:
PhD. Literary Studies (English Studies), Ghent University, Belgium, 2015
Dissertation: Illustrating Shakespeare’s ‘Ophelia’: Selected Studies in Visual Poetics, Paratexts, and Print Culture, 1743-1815.
M.A. British Literature, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2011
M.A. English Literature, Islamic Azad University of Arak, Iran 2007
B.A. English language literature, Islamic Azad University of Borujerd, Iran, 2002
Academic Positions:
Head of High Council for Educational and Research Policies and Planning in English Literature, Islamic Azad University of Iran, 2018-present
Head of Foreign Languages Dept. (English, French, German, linguistics), Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Science and Research Branch (SRB), June 2018-July 2020.
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Science and Research Branch (SRB), 2016 – present – Levels taught: BA, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Islamic Azad University of Karaj, 2022 – present – Levels taught: MA, PhD
Visiting Professor of English Literature, Islamic Azad University of Tehran (South Branch), 2015 to the present – Levels taught: BA, MA, PhD
Visiting Professor of English Literature, The University of Tehran, 2016-2017 – Levels taught: BA, MA, PhD
Courses taught from 2015 to the present
PhD:
- Shakespeare: plays and methods of representation
- Baroque poetry and prose, 1600-1750
- Modernism in English literature, 1900-1945
- New trends in modern literary theory and criticism, 1900-2000
- Literature and (post)colonial theory
- Transatlantic realism and naturalism
- Literature and Philosophy
M.A.:
- Literary theory and criticism
- Short story
- English poetry in the 20th century
- 17th- & 18th-century English literature
- Romantic poetry, 1780-1830
- Contemporary English drama,
- Renaissance literature, 1485-1625
- American literature, 1800-2000
- English novel, 1720-2000
- Academic writing
- Research method in literature
- European literature
- Seminar (research craft and proposal writing)
B.A.:
- Academic writing
- Approaches to literary criticism
- Literary translation
- English poetry
- Literary devices and figurative language
- English Drama
- English prose
- History of English literature I & II
- Historiography of Persian literature
Scholarly Articles
Morteza Lak, and Abdolreza Goudarzi. “Shared Identity and Virtual Communication in Post Post-Modernism vs. Post-Modernism: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.” Journal of Language and Translation 12.2 (2022): 73-84.
Goudarzi, Abdolreza, and Morteza Lak. “Trilogy of Identity Transformation: Reading David Foster Wallace’s Novels.” Critical Literary Studies 3.2 (Spring and Summer 2021), 143-158.
“Rethinking Home and Diasporic Belonging: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia.” Journal of Language and Translation 10.4 (2020): 37-47.
“The Reflections of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art in Wordsworth’s The Borderers” The Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies 16.22 (Sprig 2019): 213-238.
“The Paper Shakespeare: Jacob Tonson and the First Illustrated Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays.” Namayesh 203 (2017): 35-41. [In Persian]
“Type and Typography as Paratexts of Hamlet in Boydell’s Shakespeare Edition.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 28.2 (August 2015): 86-93.
Jung, Sandro, Kwinten Van De Walle, and Morteza Lak. “Humphry Repton’s The Bee and Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 27.2 (April-June 2014): 76-84.
Conferences
“Gender Performativity in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Major Barbara” 2nd International Conference on New Achievements of Humanities, 27 July 2018, SRI-Frankfurt Institute, Rostock, Germany.
“A Tentative Investigation through George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Major Barbara in light of Social Consciousness.” 2nd International Conference on New Achievements of Humanities, 27 July 2018, SRI-Frankfurt Institute, Rostock, Germany.
“Jacob Tonson’s Illustrated Shakespeare (1709): Book Illustration as a Cosmopolitan and Print-Cultural Scene.” From Cosmopolitans to Cosmopolitanisms / Des Cosmopolites aux cosmopolitismes. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Toronto University, 18-21 October 2017.
“Tennyson’s ‘Persia’: Metapoetic and Trans-historical Mourning for the Aesthetic Demise of English Poetry.” The First English Poetry Pageant, Islamic Azad University of Tehran, South Branch, 7 May 2016.
“Temporality and Narrative Progress in Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield: Reconciling the Spatiality of Image with the Temporality of Text.” International Conference of Illustration and Narrative Construction, Diderot University, Paris, 28-29 March 2014.
Short articles and notes
– “Rousseau, Homelessness, and the Impossible Social Welfare.” Ketab-e Hafteh 109.2 (2016): 14-17.
– “Raymond Carver’s Dirty Realism.” Ketab-e Hafteh 104. 1 (2016): 11-13.
Translation
– A Persian translation of: Weller, Shane. Modernism and Nihilism. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011. [Ābān Publications, Tehran, 2022]
Memberships
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Critical Language and Literary Studies, 2019 – present.
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Critical Literary Studies, 2020 – present.
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS)
Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture (CSTP)