Houra Yavari is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Psychology from Tehran University, and an M. Ed. from the Bank Street College of Education, New York (1990). She has published extensively on topics in psychoanalysis and Persian literature, including Psychoanalysis and Literature in Iran: Two Texts, Two Selves, Two Worlds (Tehran, 1995) and Living in the Mirror: A Literary Perspective (Tehran, 2005). Her articles include, ³The 'Third Ear' of the Analyst,² Critique, Journal of Critical Studies of the Middle East, Fall 1995, ³Modern Persian Fiction: History and Development,² in Encyclopædia Iranica (1999), ³Ideal Kingship & Failed Monarchs: Speech-Act Theory and Medieval Persian Historiography,² Iranshenasi, Spring 2001, ³he Autobiographies of Jalal-e Al-e Ahmad: Who is Schizophrenic, the Culture or the Self?², Goft-e Goo(Spring 2002).