FARZANEH MILANI

• Born:
• Nationality: Iranian
• Profession: Academic

Farzaneh Milani (Persian: فرزانه میلانی‎ born c. 1947) is an Iranian-American scholar and author. Milani teaches Persian literature and Women’s Studies at the University of Virginia. Milani is Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures. She is also a poet, award-winning translator, and a recipient of the Carnegie Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Milani’s 1992 book Veils and Words: the Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers (Syracuse, 1992), has seen its sixteenth printing.