Tahmasebi, Victoria

Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani holds an Honours B.A. in Sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of Toronto, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University, Toronto, Canada. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her areas of specialization encompass sexuality, women and human rights in the Middle-East, gender and ethics of non-violence, continental feminism, and critical theories of women’s movements. Before coming to the University of Toronto Mississauga, she taught in Women’s and Gender Studies program in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Some of her recent and forthcoming publications include:

“Green Women of Iran: The Role of the Women’s Movement During and After Iran’s Presidential Election of 2009,” Constellations (2010);

“Does Levinas Justify or Transcend Liberalism?: Levinas on Human liberation,” Philosophy and Social Criticism (2010);

“Levinas, Nietzsche and Benjamin’s Divine Violence,” Difficult Justice: Commentaries on Levinas and Politics (2006),

“The Sexed Body of the Woman–(M)Other: Irigaray and Marcuse on the Intersection of Gender and Ethical Intersubjectivity,”  Contemporary Critical Theory in Canada (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).

Manuscript: Emmanuel Levinas and Politics of (non)-Violence (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).