Nasrin Rahimieh (born 1958)[1][2] is an Iranian-born American literary critic, editor, and educator.
[1][3] Rahimieh is the Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Humanities Core program at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
[1] Her early education was primarily in Bandar-e Anzali, with the exception of her senior year of high school spent as an exchange student in New London, Connecticut.
She previously served as the Maseeh Chair and Director of Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at UCI.
[4] In 1990, she published the notable book Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World (1990).