Rita Nezami
teaches in the Writing & Rhetoric Program at SUNY-Stony Brook where she focuses on global issues, visual rhetoric, the personal essay, and postcolonial Anglophone and Francophone literatures.Educated in London, Moscow, Barcelona and Paris, Nezami earned her PhD in literature from the University of Texas at Dallas. Speaking seven languages and translating from four, she has taught languages and international literature for more than 20 years.
Nezami received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Russian language and literature from Moscow State University.