Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani

Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga and in the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.

Professor Tahmasebi is an interdisciplinary scholar whose areas of specialization encompass feminist theories in relation to continental and transnational contexts; critical theories of women’s movements in the Middle East; digital activism; gender and ethics of non-violence; and contemporary history of social and political thought.

Publications:

• Manuscript: Emmanuel Levinas and Politics of Non-Violence (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)
• “The Sexed Body of the Woman-(M)Other: Irigaray and Marcuse on the Intersection of Gender and Ethical Intersubjectivity,” Contemporary Critical Theory in Canada: Essays in Honour of Gad Horowitz, eds. Shannon Bell and Peter Kulchyski (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013).
• “Does Levinas Justify or Transcend Liberalism?: Levinas on Human liberation,” Philosophy and  Social Criticism, Volume 35, June, 2010.
• “Green Women of Iran: The Role of the Women’s Movement During and After Iran’s Presidential Election of 2009,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, (March 2010), 17 (1). Reprinted in Civil Society and Democracy in Iran, ed. Ramin Jahanbegloo (New York: Lexington Books, 2012).
• “Levinas, Nietzsche and Benjamin’s ‘Divine Violence,’” in Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics, Ed. A. Horowitz and G. Horowitz (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).