Faridoun Farrokh (translator)

Faridoun Farrokh was born and educated in Iran where he began a career of teaching, initially in schools and later at the university level.  His involvement with translation, literary and otherwise, resulted from his work with the press in Iran.  He holds master’s and doctoral degrees in English literature from the University of Kansas and Middle Tennessee State University, respectively.  Currently, he is a professor of English at Texas A&M International University in Laredo and his academic specialty and research interests are in the English literature of the eighteenth century, rhetoric, and translation.  He has publications both in English and Persian.  His latest work is the translation of Goli Taraghi’s short-story collection, A Mansion in the Sky, published by the University of Texas Press, 2003.