Dr. Keyvan Allahyari (Humboldt Fellow)
Professional Positions
December 2023: Marie Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship, the University of Oslo.
June 2023: Postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Potsdam and the University of Tübingen.
July 2022-June 2023: Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies Program, University of Melbourne.
June 2021-July 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department, Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, the University of Tübingen.
2017-2021: Sessional tutor in English and Theatre Studies, the University of Melbourne.
Education
2019: PhD in English, the University of Melbourne, Australia.
2010: Master of Arts in English Literature with Excellence, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran.
2007: Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
Publications
Books
Allahyari, Keyvan. Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist. Palgrave. 2023.
Books under contract
Allahyari, Keyvan. Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Oceanic World Literatures. Routledge. Transdisciplinary Souths Series.
Peer-reviewed academic articles
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Undocumented Futures: Afrofeminist Conviviality in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street.’ ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. (copyedited, forthcoming)
Allahyari, Keyvan. “The Global Refugee: Oceanic Border Thinking in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. (copyedited, forthcoming)
Allahyari, Keyvan. “The Boochani Effect: Public Feelings and the Limits of Refugee Authorship.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 59. 2 (2023): 143-156.
Allahyari, Keyvan and Tyne Daile Sumner. “The Politics of Disgust: Form and Feeling in Christos Tsiolkas’ Merciless Gods.” Antipodes. 35.1–2 (2021): 36–52.
Birns, Nicholas and Keyvan Allahyari. “Behrouz Boochani on Manus Island: Contesting Refugee Experience in the Global South.” Journal of Australian Studies. 47.3 (2023): 531-546.
Allahyari, Keyvan and Tyne Daile Sumner. “Identity Is Cruel: Capital, Gimmick, and Surveillance in Australian Post-diasporic Short Story.” Australian Humanities Review. 69. (2021): 1-19.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Punishment and Pedagogy: Casual Teaching Under Techno-capitalism.” Australian Humanities Review. 68. (2021). 70-76.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Peter Carey’s Archive and the Australian Literary Field.” JASAL. 17.2 (2017): 1-8.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Jack Maggs and Peter Carey’s Fiction as a World.” Antipodes. 31.2 (2017): 326-341.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Antipodeanism and Charles Dickens’ Imperialist Undertakings in Depicting Australia.” Manusya. 14.2 (2011): 24-35.
Book chapters
Allahyari, Keyvan. “What is the (Australian) Refugee Novel?” The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel. Edited by Nicholas Birns and Louis Klee. Cambridge University Press. 2023: 305-316.
Critical essays
Allahyari, Keyvan. “The Trouble of Middle Eastern Literature.” Sydney Review of Books. (28 November 2019). https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/trouble-of-middle-eastern-literature/.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Reflections of an Outsider: Eulogy for an Unseen Refugee.” Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature. 4.1 (2014).
Essay reviews
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Algorithm Mood.” Review of Ennis Ennis Cehic’s Sadvertising. Sydney Review of Books. May 2022.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “This New Writing.” Review of Josephine Rowe’s On Beverly Farmer.” Sydney Review of Books. October 2020.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Nirvana at the Consulting Company”. Review of Bem Le Hunte’s Elephants with Headlights. Sydney Review of Books. October 2020.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Loving Polyamory.” Review of Paul Dalgano’s Poly. The Monthly. September 2020.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Forming Fatigue.” Review of Yumna Kassab’s The House of Youssef. Sydney Review of Books. June 2020.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Transnodal.” Review of Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s by David Carter and Roger Osborne. Australian Book Review. August 2019, No. 413: 48.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “On Oxytocin.” Review of Sonia Orchard’s Into the Fire. Australian Book Review. May 2019, No. 411: 37.
Literary journalism
Allahyari, Keyvan, and Paul Rae. “Behrouz Boochani’s literary prize cements his status as an Australian writer.” The Conversation. 1 Feb 2019. https://theconversation.com/behrouz-boochanis-literary-prize-cements-his-status-as-an-australian-writer-110986.
Interviews with authors
Allahyari, Keyvan. “‘Back to the Future. Keyvan Allahyari in Conversation with Chris Flynn.” Chicago Review of Books. (April 2020). https://chireviewofbooks.com/2020/04/28/back-to-the-future-in-mammoth/.
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Interview – Keyvan Allahyari and Dominic Smith in Conversation.” Antipodes. 31.1 (2017): 151-157.
Submitted articles currently under peer review
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Undocumented Futures: Afrofeminist Conviviality as Reparative Work in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. (Under peer review)
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Borders and Embroideries: Eastern Africa as Reparative Imaginary in Shailija Patel’s Migritude.” Research in African Literatures. (Under peer review)
Teaching
2022: Coordinator – “Global Literature and Postcolonialism” (ENGL30006), at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
Coordinator – “Indian Ocean Literatures: Worlds, Fictions, Flows”. MA course at the English department and Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, the University of Tübingen.
2021: Coordinator – “Capitalist Unrealisms: Contemporary Experimental Short Story.” BA course at the English department, the University of Tübingen.
Coordinator – “The Refugee and the Globe: Politics and Poetics of Refugee Writing.” MA course at the English department, the University of Tübingen.
Tutor – “Adaptation, Literature, Media (ENGL20031)”, at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
2020: Tutor – “Representations (MULT10017)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
Tutor – “Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
2019: Tutor – “Critical Debates (ENGL30002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
Tutor – “Modern and Contemporary Literature (ENGL10001)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
Tutor – “Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
Tutor – “Engaging with Literature (ENGL101)”, at the English, Writing, and Media & Communications department, the University of New England.
2018: Tutor – “Modern and Contemporary Literature (ENGL10001)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
Tutor – “Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
2017: Tutor – “Modern and Contemporary Literature (ENGL10001)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
Tutor – “Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
2016: Guest lectures in contemporary Australian literature at Centre for Australian Studies, the University of Cologne and the Interdisciplinary centre for Global South Studies, the University of Tübingen.
Awards, Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships
2023 Marie Curie European Postdoctoral fellowship (2024-2026). The University of Oslo.
2022 Postdoctoral Humboldt Research Fellowship (2023-2025). The University of Potsdam. Start date, June 2023.
2022 Fryer Library Fellowship, The University of Queensland. (20,000 AUD)
2022 Bonn-Melbourne Research Excellence Fund with Dr Tyne Daile Sumner, Dr Jennifer Leetsch, and Dr Katharina Fackler for the project “Water as Method: Reading the Hydrocolony in Global Literature.” (20,000 Euros).
2022 SCC HoSIF Research Theme & Pathway Development with Dr Tyne Daile Sumner (PI) for the project “Water as Method: Reading the Hydrocolony in Australian Literature.” (10,000 AUD).
2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Global Encounters Platform. The University of Tübingen. (declined).
2021 Dyason Fellowship for collaborative research between scholars at the University of Tübingen and the University of Melbourne for the project ‘Queer Form.’ (6,000 AUD).
2021 Postdoctoral Teach at Tübingen Fellowship at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, the University of Tübingen.
2020 Emerging Critics Fellowship at Sydney Review of Books.
2020 Shortlisted Woollahra Digital Literary Award for the essay ‘The Trouble of Middle-Eastern Literature.’
2019 Research Support Grant for exploring the papers of Peter Carey collection at National Library of Australia, Canberra. Funded by the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
2018 PhD Completion Award, Department of English and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne. October 2018.
2017 GRATS (Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme), University of Melbourne, to fully fund my archival research at the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.
2016 ASAL Postgraduate Travel Bursary
2016 GRATS (Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme), University of Melbourne, to fund my research trip to Germany.
2015 ASAL Postgraduate Travel Bursary.
2014 Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS). 4 years, fully funded.
2014 Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS), 4 years, fully funded.
2013 Universitas 21 Doctoral Mobility Scholarship. March-July. (12,000 AUD).
2012 PGSA Travel Grant, University of Auckland.
2011 Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). University of Auckland.
Public Outreach
Allahyari, Keyvan. “Behrouz Boochani Wins Literary Award”. Interview with Ian Newton. Radio Adelaide. 7 Feb 2019. http://radioadelaide.org.au/2019/02/07/victorian-prize-for-literature-keyvan-allahyari/.
Membership and Service
Member of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Editorial Board of Writing Paper Series, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen
Member of Centre for Australian Studies, at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Member of Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL).
Member of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).
Member of American Association of Australian Literature (AAALS).
Postgraduate Representative at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL), 2015-2018.
Postgraduate Representative at the Research Higher Degree Committee, 2016, the University of Melbourne.
Publication Officer and Councillor at the Graduate Student Association, the University of Melbourne, 2016.
Selection of Recent Presentations
Co-presented with Tyne Sumner. “The Point is to Change the World: Capitalist Realism and its Negation in Ali Alizadeh’s Transactions. Departmental Seminar at the University of Sydney. 22 September 2021.
“The City and the Camp: Agency and Liquidity in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” Panel on Portable Cities in International Forum on Global South Studies. The University of Tübingen. 9 July 2021.
“What is Global Refugee Literature?” Princeton University. Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility. 4 June 2021.
Co-presented with Tyne Sumner. “Identity is Cruel: Capital, Gimmick, and Surveillance in Australian Post-diasporic Short Story.” The Short Story and Its Readers. Deakin University. 1 December 2020.
“The Boochani Effect: Public Feelings and the Limits of Refugee Authorship.” Calcutta Research Group. 22 December 2020.
“Manufacturing Celebrity, Neo-liberalism and Peter Carey’s Theft (2006).” ASAL Conference, conjointly held by Deakin, La Trobe and Melbourne universities, Melbourne. 7-11 July 2017.
“Between iPad and Kindle; Reading Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America in the Post-reading Era.” ASAL Mini-Conference, University of Newcastle. 20-20 April 2017.
“Peter Carey’s Archives as Literary Networks.” Digital Media and Textuality. University of Bremen, Germany. 2-5 November 2016.
“Peter’s Carey’s Fiction as a World.” Guest Lecture, University of Cologne, Germany, invited by Professor Beate Neumeier. 8 November 2016.
“Peter Carey and Contemporary Australia Literature.” Guest Lecture, University of Tübingen, Germany, invited by Professor Russell West-Pavlov, 14 November 2016.
Research Visits
Research Visit to the Freie University, Berlin, June 2023
Research visit to KU Leuven, August 2021
Research visit to the University of Cologne, October 2016
Research visit to the University of Tübingen, October 2016