Dr. Keyvan Allahyari

Teach@Tübingen Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

2019: PhD in English, the University of Melbourne. Doctoral thesis: “Fielding Peter Carey: Economy, Archive, Celebrity”.

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.

Research Areas

refugee literature, border studies, global fiction, publishing and the politics of cultural prizes, contemporary short story

Publications

Book

Allahyari, Keyvan. Making Global Literature: Peter Carey and the Economy of Literary Celebrity. Under review by Palgrave Macmillan (New Directions in Book History Series).

Peer-reviewed Academic Articles

Allahyari, Keyvan. “The Boochani Effect: Public Feelings and the Limits of Refugee Authorship.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing. (accepted, forthcoming)
Allahyari, Keyvan and Tyne Daile Sumner. “Identity Is Cruel: Capital, Gimmick, and Surveillance in Australian Post-diasporic Short Story.” Australian Humanities Review. 69. (2021). (accepted, forthcoming)
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. “Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs 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 and Nicholas Birns. “Refugee Literature as World Literature: Reading Behrouz Boochani.” Precarious Migrancy in the Global South. Routledge. Edited by Gigi Adair and Carly McLaughlin. (forthcoming 2021).
Allahyari, Keyvan. “What is the (Australian) Refugee Novel?.” The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel. Cambridge University Press. Commissioned by the editors, Nicholas Birns and Louis Klee. (forthcoming 2022).

Longform 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/.

Essay Reviews

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.

Reflective Essays

Allahyari, Keyvan. “Reflections of an Outsider: Eulogy for an Unseen Refugee.” Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature. 4.1 (2014).

Courses Taught

2021

“Capitalist Unrealisms: Contemporary Experimental Short Story.” at the English department, the University of Tübingen.
“The Refugee and the Globe: Politics and Poetics of Refugee Writing”, at the English department, the University of Tübingen.
“Adaptation, Literature, Media (ENGL20031)”, at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.

2020

“Representations (MULT10017)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
“Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.

2019

“Critical Debates (ENGL30002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
“Modern and Contemporary Literature (ENGL10001)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
“Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
“Engaging with Literature (ENGL101)”, at the English, Writing, and Media & Communications department, the University of New England.

2018

“Modern and Contemporary Literature (ENGL10001)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
“Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.

2017

“Modern and Contemporary Literature (ENGL10001)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.
“Literature and Performance (ENGL10002)” at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne.

2016

Guest lectures in contemporary Australian literature at the English departments in the University of Cologne and the University of Tübingen.

Recent Presentations (Selection)

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.

Awards, Grants, and Scholarships

2020 Postdoctoral Teach at Tübingen Fellowship at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies, the University of Tübingen, Germany (deferred to 2021 due to COVID-19).
2020 Emerging Critic Fellowship at Sydney Review of Books.
Shortlisted for 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for the essay ‘The Trouble of Middle-Eastern Literature.’
Research Support Grant for exploring the papers of Peter Carey collection at National Library of Australia, Canberra. August 2019, funded by the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
PhD Completion Award, Department of English and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne. October 2018.
GRATS (Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme), University of Melbourne, to fully fund my archival research at the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, September 2017.
ASAL Postgraduate Travel Bursary, 2016.
GRATS (Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme), University of Melbourne, to fund my research trip to Germany, October 2016.
ASAL Postgraduate Travel Bursary, 2015.
Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship (MIFRS), 2014.
Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS), 2014.
Universitas 21 Doctoral Mobility Scholarship, March-July 2013.
PGSA Travel Grant, University of Auckland, July 2012.
Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF), University of Auckland, October 2011.
Ranked 12th in the national entrance exam for M.A in English literature, August 2007.

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/.

Memberships and Service

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.
Vice President School of Culture and Communication Graduate Committee (CCGC), the University of Melbourne, 2015.

Research Visits

Research visit to the University of Cologne, October 2016
Research visit to the University of Tübingen, October 2016
Research visit to KU Leuven, August 2021

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