Life and Thought
Amir Ali Nojoumian is a literary theorist, critic, and associate professor of English literature and literary theory at Shahid Beheshti University. He works in the fields of semiotics, post-structuralism, philosophy of literature, and film criticism, and has been a member of the Tehran Semiotics Circle.
Amir Ali Nojoumian was born on October 31, 1964, in Mashhad. He completed his BA in English Literature at Shahid Beheshti University and then went to England for graduate studies. He received his MA and PhD from the University of Leicester. His MA dissertation was on 'The Representation of Time and Space in Postmodern Narrative,' and his PhD thesis, titled 'Deconstructing the Name: Three Linguistic Paradoxes in Literary Discourse,' defined literary language based on contemporary philosophical theories, particularly the thought of Derrida.
After returning to Iran in 1999, he began teaching at Shahid Beheshti University, where he has taught courses in literary criticism and theory, contemporary literature, literary schools, philosophy of literature, and philosophy of film at various levels. Nojoumian is one of the founders and active members of the Tehran Semiotics Circle, and his research is mainly focused on semiotics, post-structuralism, deconstruction, interdisciplinary studies, film narratology, and migration literature.
His works include the books 'The Sign on the Threshold: Essays in Semiotics,' 'Semiotics: Key Essays' (editor), 'An Introduction to Modernism in Literature,' and 'An Introduction to Postmodernism in Literature.' He has also published numerous articles on comparative literary criticism and the analysis of works by authors such as Beckett, Borges, and Pynchon.
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