Maryam Nasr Esfahani
Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Address:
Department of Social Science, Centre for Women Studies,Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, 64thwest St, Tehran, Iran.
+989129312499
Emails: m.nasr@ihcs.ac.ir
maryam.nasr@gmail.com
Education:
- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2015, Ph.D, Philosophy.
Dissertation: Agency, Self and the Other in Ethics: A Study of Care
- ShahidBeheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2008, M.A, Philosophy.
Dissertation: Feminist Epistemology of Sandra Harding
- ShahidBeheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2004, B.A. Philosophy.
Areas of Specialization
Ethics, Medieval Islamic philosophy, Feminist philosophy
Employment:
2018 up to now, Assistant Professor in Center for women's Studies in Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies.
2015-2018, Researcher Scholar in Center for women's Studies in Institutefor Humanities and Cultural Studies.
2016-2017 Visiting Lecturer in, Department of Contemporary Theology in Institute forHumanities and Cultural Studies.
2015-2016, Visiting Lecturer in Department of Women and Family Studies inUniversity of Religions and Denominations.
2015-2016, Teaching Assistant in Department of Philosophy, in Tehran University.
2o15-2017, editor of"Feminist Theories" segment of Zanan-e Emrooz (WomenToday) Magazin byShahlaSherkat (chief editor).
Teaching:
- At Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies: "Methodology in Philosophy" and “proficiency in reading English texts of philosophy of religion”
- At University of Religions and Denominations: "Women in Western Philosophical School of Thoughts" and "proficiency in reading English texts on women studies".
- At Tehran University: "Reading Philosophical Texts withfrosh".
-At Tardid: online school of philosophy: “What is Feminist Philosophy?”
-ATAcademyshamseh :School of Arts and Humanities Studies: “feminist Ethics of Care”
Publications
Books:
- Caring for Others; Caring and its philosophical roots, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studiespress, 2020.
- Human and Home;Oikos and Polis in ethical thoughts of ancient Greece, Kargadan Publishing House, 2021.
(A debates on different views about Oikos in ancient Greece:Pythagorean Women, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle and Greek poets)
Translations(English to Persian)
- M.E. Waithe, A History of Contemporary Women Philosophers, Kargadan Publishing House, 2023.
(A Co-Translation of A History of Women Philosophers: Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today (History of Women Philosophers) by M.E. Waithe, Springer, 1994)
- Robin May Schot, Discovering Feminist Philosophy, Sales pub, 2022.
(A Translation ofDiscovering Feminist Philosophy: Knowledge, Ethicsby Robin May Schott,Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, 2003)
- Milton Mayeroff, On Caring, Haman pub,2017.
(A Translation of On Caring by Milton Mayeroff, HarperCollins, 1990)
Papers
- “Al-Farabi’s Silence: Manzil (Household) in al-Madīna al-Fāżela (The Perfect City)”,Journal of Philosophical Investigation, no 38 (2022),815-837.
- “Discovering the Concept of Women’s Otherness in Aristophanes’ Comedies ", Theater Quarterly, no. 80 (2021): 145-161.
- “Plato against Poets: Public and Privet in Ethical View of Plato and ancient Greek tragedians”, no25, fall and winter, (2020), 209-232.
- "Kill your Wife", a Feminine Reading of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓāns and A Tale of Occidental Exile." Journal of Women, no. 4 (2019): 149-170.
- "Caring and Meaning of Life: Review of On Caring by Milton Mayeroff." Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Juman Science, no. 1 (2019): 287-305.
- “ Public Education for privet life" Zanan -e- Emrooz , no. 19 (2017): 102-105.
- "Critiques of Ethics: Gender and Changing the Borders of Moral Agent." Fundamental Occidentalism , no. 2 (2017): 105-123.
- "The Logic of our Heart: A Review of True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us, Written by Robert C. Salomon." Ethics & Psychology & education Quarterly Book Review, no. 6-7 (2016): 191-201.
In Progress
“Feminist reading of Islamic moral philosophy” in Islamic Studies in the Contemporary World, (2023).