M.R. Ghanoonparvar

M.R. Ghanoonparvar is a Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at the faculty of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas, Austin. In the past he taught at various other universities, including the University of Isfahan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Arizona. Ghanoonparvar is an authority on Persian literature and culture, having published in both English and Persian. In 2013, after forty years, he retired from active teaching.

A fraction of Ghanoonparvar's works:

• Ghanoonparvar, M.R. (1982). Persian Cuisine I: Traditional Foods. Lexington, Kentucky: Mazda Publishers.
• Ghanoonparvar, M.R. (1984). Persian Cuisine II: Regional and Modern Foods. Lexington, Kentucky: Mazda Publishers.
• Ghanoonparvar, M.R. (1993). In a Persian mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Contemporary Iranian Fiction. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Ghanoonparvar, M.R. (2005). Reading Chubak. Mazda Publishers.
• Ghanoonparvar, M.R. (2005). Translating the Garden. University of Texas Press.
• Ghanoonparvar, M.R. (2006). Persian Cuisine: Traditional, Regional and Modern Foods. Mazda Publishers.