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Bakhtiar Sadjadi
OccupationAcademic, Literary critic, Translator, Professor
LanguageKurdish, Persian, English
NationalityIranian
EducationB.A.Shahid Beheshti University

M.A.University of Tehran Ph.D.University of Pune

Ph.D.University of Exeter
SubjectEnglish literature, literary criticism, cultural theory, philosophy, Kurdish literature
Notable worksIndexing and Citation Analysis in Kurdish Academic Writing (2024),

A Dictionary of Critical Concepts (2001, 2022),

Kurdish Language and Literature (2017, 2024)
Website
research.uok.ac.ir/~bsajadi/en

Bakhtiar Sadjadi (Perisan: بختیار سجادی, Central Kurdish: بەختیار سەجادی) is an Iranian-Kurdish academic, and scholar.He is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kurdistan in Sanandaj, Iran, where he founded the first university-level Department of Kurdish language and Literature officially approved by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.[1][2][3][4] His academic work focuses on literary criticism, English literature, Kurdish literature, cultural theory, and continental philosophy.[1] .He is also reported to be only Iranian member of Academy of the Kurdish Language and Literature.[5]

ٍEducation and academic work

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Bakhtiar Sadjadi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University in 1998 and completed a Master of Arts degree in English Literature at the University of Tehran in 2000.[1]

In 2006, he earned his first Ph.D. in Philosophy from Savitribai Phule Pune University in India. His dissertation, titled The Manifestation of the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche in Post-Structuralism: From Critical Philosophy to Applied Theories, examined Nietzsche's impact on post-structuralist thinkers.[6]

In 2010, Sadjadi completed a second Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. His dissertation, supervised by Dr. Alex Murray and Prof. Ashley Tauchert, focused on subjectivity and identity formation in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, using the frameworks of Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser.[7]

Academic career

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Sadjadi began his academic career as a lecturer at the University of Kurdistan in 2000, teaching in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics.[2] He was later promoted to assistant professor in 2010 and associate professor in 2019.[2] In 2015, he joined the Department of Kurdish Language and Literature, where he played a foundational role in curriculum development and teaching.[2][8][3][4]

In addition to his teaching, Sadjadi has served as director and editor-in-chief of Critical Literary Studies, a peer-reviewed English-language journal on English and comparative literature based in Iran.[2][9] He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Kurdish Literature, a biannual scholarly publication that is among the few Kurdish journals indexed with an impact factor.[10]

Sadjadi has been instrumental in establishing graduate programs in English literature at the University of Kurdistan, including both MA and PhD degrees.[2] In 2022, he was appointed visiting professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.[2]

His teaching portfolio includes courses in literary theory, cultural studies, literary criticism, postcolonialism, aesthetics, research methodology, and modern English fiction, delivered in English, Persian, and Kurdish.[2]

Literary career

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Sadjadi's literary and theoretical work bridges Western literary theory with Kurdish literary and cultural traditions. He frequently applies frameworks from post-structuralism, psychoanalytic theory, and postcolonial theory to the analysis of Kurdish and English literature.[2]

His book Friedrich Nietzsche and Post-Structuralism: From Philosophy to Literary Theory (2014) investigates Nietzsche's influence on theorists such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes.[11] In The Lacanian–Althusserian Dialectic (2012), Sadjadi offers an original synthesis of theories from Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser to investigate subjectivity in modernist literature.[12]

Sadjadi has also contributed to the development of Kurdish literary criticism by introducing new theoretical terminology into the Kurdish language. His dictionary and glossaries, such as A Dictionary of Critical Concepts and A Glossary of Literary Terms (English–Kurdish–Persian), serve as foundational texts in Kurdish literary studies.[2]

He is well known in Kurdish intellectual circles for his critical essays and translations and has been active in promoting academic and literary dialogue around identity, modernity, and language policy through conferences and workshops in Iran and abroad.[2]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • The Lacanian–Althusserian Dialectic: Theoretical Problems in Investigating the Subject's Identity (2012)[13][14]
  • Friedrich Nietzsche and Post-Structuralism: From Philosophy to Literary Theory (2014)[15]
  • An Anthology of Modern Kurdish Literature (2011)[16]
  • Orientalism and the Kurds: A Post-Colonialist Note (2022)[17]
  • Indexing and Citation Metrics for Kurdish Academic Writing (2024)[18][19]
  • Kurdish Language and Literature (2017; expanded ed. 2024)[20]
  • A Dictionary of literary terms (2001)[21]

Selected articles

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  • "Subjectivity Construction and Representation in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury"[22][23]
  • "The Manifestation of Lacanian Desire in Ian McEwan's Atonement and Saturday"[24][25][26]
  • "Post-Apocalyptic Identity Construction in Ayn Rand's Anthem with Reference to Culture/Nature Duality"[27][28]

Translation and editorial work

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  • Editor-in-chief, Journal of Kurdish Literature[29]
  • Director and editor, Critical Literary Studies[30]

Prizes and awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "University of Kurdistan – Bakhtiar Sadjadi". University of Kurdistan. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Journal of Kurdish Literature". msrt.ir.
  3. ^ a b "دانشگاه کردستان برای اولین بار در رشته زبان کردی دانشجو می‌پذیرد". BBC News فارسی (in Persian). 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  4. ^ a b www.irna.ir https://www.irna.ir/news/81884274/%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A-%D9%83%D9%87-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%82-%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA. Retrieved 2025-10-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "استاد دانشگاه کردستان، تنها عضو ایرانی فرهنگستان زبان و ادبیات کردی شد". پرتال اصلی دانشگاه کردستان (in Persian). Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  6. ^ Bakhtiar Sadjadi (2006). The Manifestation of the Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche in Post-Structuralism (Ph.D. thesis). Savitribai Phule Pune University. hdl:10603/3803.
  7. ^ Bakhtiar Sadjadi (2010). Investigating the Subject's Identity: The Critical Treatment of the Lacanian-Althusserian Dialectic and Subjectivity Formation in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Ph.D. thesis). University of Exeter.
  8. ^ "Bakhtiar Sadjadi: Kurdish Literature Needs Structural Theoretical Grounding". rudaw.net.
  9. ^ "Critical Literary Studies Journal". University of Kurdistan. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
  10. ^ "Journal of Kurdish Literature". University of Kurdistan. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
  11. ^ Sadjadi, Bakhtiar (2014). Friedrich Nietzsche and Post-Structuralism: From Philosophy to Literary Theory. Scholars' Press.
  12. ^ Sadjadi, Bakhtiar (2012). The Lacanian-Althusserian Dialectic: Theoretical Problems in Investigating the Subject's Identity. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
  13. ^ "The Lacanian-Althusserian Dialectic: Theoretical Problems and Premises in Investigating the Subject". research.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  14. ^ "‪Investigating the Subject's Identity: The Critical Treatment of the Lacanian-Althusserian Dialectic and Subjectivity Formation in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man‬". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  15. ^ کوردی, ماڵی کتێبی. "Book Review of A dictionary of Critical Terms by Dr. Bakhtiar Sadjadi". ماڵی کتێبی کوردی.
  16. ^ "‪An Anthology of Modern Kurdish Literature‬". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  17. ^ "Bakhtiar Sadjadi". research.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 2025-05-09.
  18. ^ "Bakhtiar Sadjadi". research.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 2025-05-09.
  19. ^ کُردی, خانه کتاب. "گفت و گو با دکتر بختیار سجادی". خانە کتاب كُردی (in Persian).
  20. ^ کُردی, خانه کتاب (۱۳۹۷-۰۵-۱۱T05:20:43+00:00). "معرفی کتاب زبان وادبیات كُردی اثر دکتر بختیار سجادی". خانە کتاب كُردی (in Persian). Retrieved 2025-10-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  21. ^ کوردی, ماڵی کتێبی (۱۴۰۲-۰۳-۲۱T15:56:20+00:00). "ڕانانی فەرهەنگی زاراوەی ڕەخنەیی لە نووسینی دوکتۆر بەختیار سەجادی". ماڵی کتێبی کوردی (in Persian). Retrieved 2025-10-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  22. ^ "‪Subjectivity Construction and Representation in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury‬". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  23. ^ Sadjadi, Bakhtiar (2022-01-01). "Subjectivity Construction and Representation in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury". جامعه شناسی فرهنگ و هنر.
  24. ^ Maleki Qouzloo, Hourieh; Sadjadi, Bakhtiar (2021-01-01). Gunnarsdóttir Champion, Margrét (ed.). "The manifestation of Lacanian desire in Ian McEwan's Atonement and Saturday". Cogent Arts & Humanities. 8 (1) 1892904. doi:10.1080/23311983.2021.1892904.
  25. ^ "TheManifestation of Lacanian Desire in Ian McEwan's Atonement and Saturday, By Bakhtiar Sadjadi". research.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  26. ^ Maleki Qouzloo, Hourieh; Sadjadi, Bakhtiar (2021-01-01). Gunnarsdóttir Champion, Margrét (ed.). "The manifestation of Lacanian desire in Ian McEwan's Atonement and Saturday". Cogent Arts & Humanities. 8 (1) 1892904. doi:10.1080/23311983.2021.1892904. ISSN 2331-1983.
  27. ^ "POST-APOCALYPTIC IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN AYN RAND'S ANTHEM WITH REFERENCE TO CULTURE/NATURE DUALITY, By Bakhtiar Sadjadi". research.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  28. ^ "‪Post-Apocalyptic Identity Construction in Ayn Rand's Anthem with Reference to Culture/Nature Duality‬". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  29. ^ "Journal of Kurdish Literature - Editorial Board". jokl.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  30. ^ "Critical Literary Studies - Editorial Board". cls.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
  31. ^ "'Different Kurdish dialects not threat, but positive enrichment,' says prominent Kurdish academic". 27 December 2023.
  32. ^ www.irna.ir https://www.irna.ir/news/84339853/%D8%AC%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%D9%87-%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%87-%D8%AC%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF. Retrieved 2025-10-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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