[1] His research focus is on gender, ideology, culture, and language, with an emphasis on literature (Modern and Classical); contemporary Islamic issues, Middle Eastern culture; and the Persian language.
He has translated contemporary debates in Islam from Persian, Arabic, French, and Urdu into English.
In addition to co-authoring the textbook "Modern Persian: Spoken and Written", Kamran Talatoff is a coordinator of the University of Arizona's Online Persian Language Learning Resource Project.
[2] Talattof is the author of The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature;[3][4][5] Modern Persian: Spoken and Written with D. Stilo and J. Clinton, He co-edited Essays on Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry with A. Karimi-Hakkak; The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric with J. Clinton;[6] and Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist Thought with M. Moaddel.
His most recent book is Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011).